Whole Brain® Grow Your Team
6 - 20
Group size
in person
Team type
Whole Brain® Methodology
Whole Brain® Thinking and the HBDI® provide a research-backed framework and assessment to understand thinking preferences, and strengthen communication, collaboration, and decision-making.
Alignment isn’t magic, it’s mindset.
This workshop is a focused, energizing experience that reshapes how teams think, collaborate, and perform. Using the Whole Brain® model and HBDI® Team Profile, it reveals your team’s cognitive strengths to drive better decisions, stronger trust, and real results.
Whether you’re starting fresh or refining what’s already there, this workshop moves your team forward.
Why
Because every team is made of different minds, and most of them don’t fully understand each other.
This experience helps teams:
- Reveal hidden patterns in communication, collaboration, and conflict
- Replace frustration with empathy, ownership, and accountability
- Make better, faster, more inclusive decisions
- Align around goals, roles, and processes with a shared mental model
- Build sustainable practices that strengthen trust and cohesion
What
This workshop is always tailored, but core elements include:
- The Science of How Teams Think: Understand the four quadrants of Whole Brain® Thinking and how they play out in team dynamics
- HBDI® Team Profile Reveal: Map your team’s collective brain, identify gaps and hotspots, and use real data to spark conversation and change
- Team Challenges, Simulations & Real Talk: Go beyond theory with energizing activities and honest dialogue that reveal how your team really works
- Frameworks That Stick: Use powerful, practical tools like the Pyramid of the Effective Team, Tuckman’s Stages, and the “10 Commandments of the Team”
- Shared Agreements and Action Plan: Leave with a practical, visible commitment plan based on Whole Brain® insights and your team’s goals
How
- Pre-session team leader briefing and goal alignment
- Optional HBDI® assessments for individuals and team with personal debriefs
- 1 or 2-day workshop with team simulations, case-based discussions, and visual tools
- Optional post-session coaching or reinforcement sessions
- Suitable for in-person or virtual delivery
Who
This program is ideal for:
- Functional or cross-functional intact teams
- Executive or leadership teams
- Teams forming, storming, or realigning
- Project teams navigating complexity, silos, or fast change Best suited for groups of 5–20 participants. Highly adaptable to sector or maturity level.
Details
Duration and format are tailored to your team’s needs. HBDI® is optional but strongly recommended, especially for leadership and high-impact teams.
AV equipment (projector, screen, speakers) required
Spacious indoor venue
Meet your trainer
Markos Mandes
GrowPlay® Trainer | Whole Brain Thinking®, Team Development & Personal Growth
Markos is a Herrmann HBDI® Certified Practitioner and experiential learning expert who helps people and teams unlock the full power of Whole Brain® Thinking. With a background in psychology, NLP, and more than two decades of facilitation, he designs workshops that blend insight, creativity, and interaction in equal measure.
At Summit, his focus is on helping teams strengthen trust, align their ways of working, and harness diverse thinking styles to achieve more together. Whole Brain® Thinking and the HBDI® have wide-ranging applications across leadership, communication, decision-making, innovation, customer service and more, and Markos brings these to life through engaging, interactive learning journeys. Using tools like LEGO® Serious Play® and dynamic group activities, he transforms complex challenges into opportunities for growth, always with an energy that inspires participation and sparks change.
Over the years, Markos has designed and led learning experiences for people at every level: from frontline staff to C-suite executives, across public and private sectors, multinationals, universities, non-profits, and even scouts, in multiple countries and languages. As a juggler, he knows it’s not about how many balls you keep in the air, but how you stay focused, balanced, and in rhythm — lessons he brings into every team experience.
His guiding belief is simple: on your own you may go faster, but together we go further.
