Someone’s thinking style is made up of a combination of Metaprograms, creating a unique, personal system. Graves Motivational Drives describe what they find important, their values or criteria that they measure others by or themselves by. Their Metaprograms determine their behavior and their emotions in a given situation.
MindSonar® is being used all over the world by consultants, coaches, trainers, and organizational developers. MindSonar® Psychometrics helps get to the heart of a client’s thinking. MindSonar® is being used in prestigious organizations like the armed forces of the Netherlands (in their leadership development course), a top European automobile manufacturer (sales), and has been used in the Olympic Dressage team (team-building), which won 20% of all Dutch medals in the London Olympics of 2012 and in one of Europe’s premier banks (marketing). And there have been many non-commercial applications of MindSonar® as well; it is also used in volunteer groups, daycare centers, and schools.
MindSonar® is not a personality test. Personality tests will tell you what you are like as a person; always and under any circumstances. Many people feel limited and ‘put in a box’ by these kinds of tests. Some personality tests will even say how ’healthy or sick’ your personality is.
It assumes that you will think differently in different situations. MindSonar® does not assume that any thinking style is good or bad. Every thinking style has its time and place where it can be helpful.
The term ‘MindSonar®’ uses sonar technology as an analogy. Sonar shows us objects that cannot be seen by observing the surface of the water, and it requires an expert to understand the exact nature of those objects.
Most clients start with a 30-page in-depth profile of how they think in a given context and a 90-minute coaching session that makes the invisible visible. In this first session, we will review the report with you, as well as show you how to adapt your thinking to get the results you are looking for.
You will not find MindSonar® as a do-it-yourself test on the web. MindSonar® is offered exclusively through a network of trained and certified professionals. The combination of the measurement and the professional is much more powerful than just the measurement by itself.
Because MindSonar® is context-based, the MindSonar® professional can use the tool in many ways to support people and organizations: