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WE WILL HELP YOU UNDERSTAND THE PEOPLE THAT MATTER TO YOU FOR COACHING, FOR TEAM BUILDING FOR RECRUITMENT FOR PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
MEASURING MINDSETS IN A NEW WAY FINE GRAINED, CONTEXTUALIZED, FOCUSED ON CHANGE
There are so many tests online. DISC, Enneagram, MBTI, Management Drives, and so on and on.
Is MindSonar just another quick fix, asking you a few questions and putting you in a personality box? No. MindSonar is ‘the new profiling’.
MindSonar is fine grained, with an huge number of possible outcomes, rather than a few ‘types’. It is contextualized: measures how you think in a specific type of situation, not who you are. And it assumes that you can change, rather than presupposing you will be fixed forever.
FINE GRAINED
MindSonar measures 13 thinking style elements (Meta Programs) and 7 motivational drives (Graves Drives). This results in a fine grained analysis of someone's mindset, with thousands of possible combinations.
CONTEXTUALIZED
MindSonar assumes you will think differently in different situations. Fortunately, You have more than one mindset! We measure your mindset for a given context. Our slogan: "Because you are so much more!"
FOCUSED ON CHANGE
Old tests that measure personality assume you are the same, forever and anywhere. "An introvert can't suddenly be an extravert". We believe that you can change on all the variables we measure. If you want to.
WHAT WE HAVE DONE
WHAT PEOPLE SAY ABOUT US
OR VISION, OUR MISSION AND WHAT YOU DESERVE
OUR VISION
We envision a world where people have a deep understanding of themselves and each other. Where cognitive diversity is the norm. In our ideal world, frustration and aggression are rare. And people have a healthy resistance to AI influence.
OUR MISSION
We deliver the best possible tools to help people to understand themselves and each other. Making our tools broadly available and thoroughly dependable. And we're open to any suggestion for improvement.
WHAT YOU DESERVE
We feel that you, as a professional, deserve an easy way to understand the people you work with. This understanding, we have found, makes professional life much easier, more joyful and financially more rewarding.
HOW YOU CAN USE MINDSONAR
COACHING
To move beyond the problem and create new choices, we work with mindsets. We identify the present mindset causing the problem and the new thinking style and values we want to harness. Understanding how your cognitive style interacts with others is the key to healthy change.
TEAM BUILDING
Effective teams work best when they have purpose, trust, accountability, freedom and support. MindSonar shows the collective strengths, blind spots and room for growth when building teams. The team can look into the individual mindset of each member for better mutual understanding and a more productive work flow.
RECRUITING
What mindset does the job role require? Let’s define the combination of thinking style and values that is necessary for success. MindSonar allows you to understand that and then match the candidate’s style to the role. You will also learn how to effectively communicate and motivate that candidate.
LEADERSHIP
Leadership is no single object. We distinguish four essential elements, tha together make up trong leadership. Each one of those has their separate characteristics in terms of mindset. And you can measure them all with MindSonar. Wit one single MindSonar profile you can assess the four leadership elements in any leader.
WHAT WE MEASURE
To describe a person’s mindset, we measure 29 thinking style elements and 7 value types. These can all vary on a scale from 0 to 10. This makes a huge number of variations possible. You or your clients will not get reduced to one of a few cut-out personality types.
Your MindSonar profile is as unique as you are.
THINKING STYLE ELEMENTS
PROACTIVE
REACTIVE
TOWARDS
AWAY FROM
INTERNALLY REFERENCED
EXTERNALLY REFERENCED
OPTIONS
PROCEDURE
MATCHING
MISMATCHING
INTERNAL LOCUS OF CONTROL
EXTERNAL LOCUS OF CONTROL
GENERAL
SPECIFIC
MAINTENANCE
DEVELOPMENT
CHANGE
CONCEPT
STRUCTURE
USE
TOGETHER
PROXIMITY
SOLO
PAST
PRESENT
FUTURE
VISUAL
AUDITORY
KINESTHETIC
VALUE TYPES (GRAVES DRIVES)
SAFETY
ORDER
POWER
TOGETHER
WINNING
LEARNING
BIG PICTURE
THE GLOBAL MINDSONAR TEAM
JAAP HOLLANDER
Psychologist. MindSonar Founder. Trainer. Author (11 books about provocative therapy and NLP). MindSonar policy and content lead. Lives in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
TOMASZ ZAWADZKI
Sales expert. MindSonar technical lead. Highly experienced MindSonar Trainer. Relational Presence Trainer. Lives in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
IAN CLARKE
Business Coach & Facilitator. MindSonar branding lead. Adds Asentiv program to MindSonar to create choices. Lives in Leicester, England, United Kingdom.
CHRIS MINNE
Organizational psychologist. Provides external HR development services and management training in a variety of business settings. Lives in Brussels, Belgium.
GABER MAROLT
NLP master trainer, business trainer, master & executive coach, business consultant, motivator, and catalyst. Lives in Maribor, Slovenia.
NICOLAS FRAGKIAS
Psychotherapist. Systemic Coaching Techniques, Clinical Psychotherapy & Hypnotherapy, Corporate Training, Executive Search, Micro Expression Expert, and NLP Trainer. Lives in Ilio˙polis, Attiki, Greece.
BIANCA NEGRON
Career Coach/ Personal & Employer Brand Consultant. Author of 'Hay Trabajo!' Lives in Norfolk City County, Virginia, United States.
CARLUS ARGUELLO
Coach and Organizational Psychologist specialized in Authentic Human Talent Management. Lives in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
VIRGINIA PARDO CAMACHO
ICC-LAMBENT - Latam Partnership & Master Trainer, NeuroCoaching, TTT, OTC Team Coach, Scrum Master, The Creators Club Member. Lives in Bogota, Colombia
BILJANA GAVRILOSKA
English Teacher and translator. Teaching English as a Second Language. Certified in digital marketing. Lives in Ohrid, North Macedonia.
ANDRES LEMUS
Community Manager / Social media / Design / Copywriter. Certified in Audiovisual writing, Digital Marketing, and Social Media Strategy. Lives in Bogota, Colombia.
WHO USES MINDSONAR
COACHES
Coaches use MindSonar to understand how their client's mindset relates to their problems. And what the desired mindset is, in terms of thinking styles and value types. They help clients develop a new mindset.
TEAM BUILDERS
Team builders help teams to understand each others mindsets. This fosters communication and cognitive diversity. They may design a workflow that fits the mindsets better, or do a SWOT on the average team profile.
RECRUITERS
Recruiters use MindSonar to clearly define the desired mindset for a job. They may write ad copy that attracts candidates with the desired mindset. And they can determine which candidates fit the desired profile best.
HR-PROFESSIONALS
HR-professionals use MindSonar for coaching, training and/or recruiting employees, depending on the kind of HR functions they fulfill. They may also use MindSonar for conflict resolution between workers or departments.
TRAINERS
Trainers use MindSonar for training programs based on benchmarks. These benchmarks are derived from people who are excellent at certain jobs or functions. They may also compare their trainees with that same benchmark.
CONSULTANTS
Consultants use MindSonar to help handle organisational challenges. They may look at average profiles of different groups within the organisation and relate these to current problematic systemic patterns.