Introducing the Basadur Profile - why good teams think differently

​How to use different problem-solving preferences without getting in each other’s way.

​One person wants more ideas. Another thinks the problem is still unclear. Someone is already testing what will and will not work. Someone else wants everybody to stop talking and get on with it.

​This happens in capable teams all the time. The difficulty is not that people think differently. It is that teams often lack a useful way to understand and work with those differences.

​In this practical session, we will introduce the Basadur Profile and its four problem-solving preferences: Generating, Conceptualising, Optimising and Implementing.

​We will look at how each preference contributes to creative problem solving, what happens when one way of thinking dominates, and why useful differences can easily be mistaken for resistance, indecision or impatience.

​You will gain a clearer way to notice:

• ​where you naturally enter the problem-solving process

• ​which kinds of thinking your team tends to favour

• ​what may be missing when a team gets stuck

• ​how to involve different thinkers more deliberately.

​This is not about putting people into boxes. It is about helping teams use the thinking they already have more effectively.