The Leader’s Playbook: Leveraging Different Thinking Styles to Unlock Team Potential – Every team possesses different thinking styles marked by unique characteristics, strengths, and potential blind spots. When combined on a team, different thinking styles can either create synergy and amplified team performance or they can result in communication breakdowns, unmitigated blind spots, team conflict, and derailers of team performance. How can you ensure that your teams are led toward better business performance?

When leaders understand and strategically leverage their team members’ distinct thinking styles, problem-solving approaches, and cognitive strengths, they unlock powerful team performance.

Research shows these are the outcomes of leading teams with different thinking styles in mind:

• Enhanced team innovation
• Higher Productivity
• Better Decision-Making Quality
• Ability to Tackle More Complex Tasks
• Enhanced Problem-solving
• Higher Employee Engagement

This dynamic, research-backed leadership development program equips people managers with practical tools and frameworks to identify and leverage the cognitive strengths within their teams. Through interactive exercises and real-world applications, participants learn to create environments where different thinking styles thrive and contribute to enhanced business and people outcomes.

In this workshop, participants will:

• Explore the business case for leveraging different thinking styles
• Uncover how personality shapes perceptions, inclinations, and behavior
• Identify personal strengths and potential blind spots
• Recognize characteristics of different thinking styles
• Explore the ways in which different thinking styles approach communication, collaboration, decision-making, and conflict
• Learn adaptive tips to leverage different thinking styles on their teams
• Develop a practical plan of action for creating environments where different thinking styles thrive and lead to enhanced team performance

This workshop combines:

• Interactive exercises
• Real-world case studies and applications
• Peer learning and discussion
• Practical tools and frameworks
• Action planning and implementation strategies

Every organization faces the critical challenge of leading their teams to enhanced business performance and engagement. In this workshop, your leaders will learn concrete strategies to leverage their team’s cognitive potential and drive superior business and people results.

This program is facilitated by certified organizational development consultants with personal experience leading teams and divisions. This ensures a richer experience for your leaders as they hear real-life anecdotes and connect on a similar level as leaders.