Thinking Styles is an occupational psychometric tool measuring cognitive preferences for 26 types of thinking. These are sub-divided into:

Thinking Styles is ideal for use where the quality of thinking and the strength of working relationships are critical for success. It identifies how preferred thinking preferences drive behaviour and communication style and provides insights into how these preferences affect the cognitive strategies and social relationships of people at work.

Each Thinking Styles report includes 12 mini profiles, which explore how an individual’s cognitive preferences affect therir leadership, management, analysis and decision-making styles as well as offering suggestions for motivating, leading and supporting change.

Thinking Styles provides strategies for developing cognitive and behavioural flexibility and can be used for mapping cognitie development over time, for example over time, for example ovet the course of a leadership development programme or within a new job role. It is also a valuable tool for measuring chenge as part of a change management programme.

Thinking Styles is only avaible to accredited users. A full accreditation programme is avaible on an in-house basis or trough open programmes, which are held at regular intervals.