#BuildingBinoBooks (July 19, 2021) — What makes our team fit so good?
Let’s throw it back to May 2020.
To set the scene, we had just recently formed our team and were beginning the SpreadInnovation Program run by DDQIC. This was all before BinoBooks was even a concept.
During this time, we participated in a session, hosted by the amazing Erin LeBlanc, on HBDI (otherwise known as the Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument). For those of you unfamiliar with HBDI it’s a tool to measure people’s preferred thinking styles.
The four quadrants for this model are Analytical (Blue), Practical (Green), Relational (Red), Experimental (Yellow). However, different graphics adopt different versions of these names.
Our team’s goal was to:
- Identify which HBDI quadrants were our most and least preferred
- Determine what experience and skillsets we had and preferred
This resulted in us creating a chart where we could each indicate:
👍 Strong Preference/ Experience: We are skilled in this area OR are very eager to learn more about the topic.
👈 Some Preference/Experience: We are somewhat skilled in this area OR okay with doing this task.
👎 Minimal Preference/Experience: We don’t want to do this OR have very basic to no experience.
This chart may seem like a lot. But it really helped us from the start have conversations about what we were good at, what we wanted to do more of and what we never, if possible, want to do.
You can see the full chart linked below. Do tell, have you and your team done similar charts or team alignment documents? We’d love to hear more in the comments.
