The Basadur Profile is a proven assessment tool validated by research that provides insight to how people and teams prefer to think during the innovative process. By identifying these preferred styles, team members can develop a more open mind to their perception of others as well as the various mindsets required to be successful in innovation.
How it works
The first thing the Basadur Profile does is recognize that different people have different capabilities. Depending on the individual, one person’s approach to problem-solving and innovative thinking will be different to someone else’s.
Some people’s strengths lie in initiating new projects and opportunities, and actively seeking out problems that need solving. Others are at their best when defining and understanding new initiatives. For some it’s about producing concrete solutions and turning ideas into workable reality, while others enjoy finishing things off and taking action to make things happen.
The Profile identifies these different styles and creates four corresponding categories: Generators, Conceptualizers, Optimizers and Implementers.
Generators
Conceptualizers
Optimizers
Implementers
Everyone is included and everyone is equally valued.
The 4 distinct preferred styles of thinking.
Generators
- Get things started, get involved, gather information, ask questions.
- Sense problems, imagine possibilities, see opportunities.
- View things from different perspectives.
- Prefer generating more ideas rather than evaluating existing ones.
- See relevance in almost everything.
- Comfortable with ambiguity.
Typical occupations include:
Academics
Artists
Marketers
Non-Profit/University Administrators
Teachers
Training and Development
Advertising Creatives
Conceptualizers
- Like defining problems and coming up with ideas.
- Like to see the big picture.
- Form quick connections, see opportunities and benefits.
- Distil seemingly unrelated observations into integrated explanations.
- Don’t like proceeding until situations are fully understood and problems well defined.
- Want theories to be sound and precise.
Typical occupations include:
Designers
Market Researchers
Organization Development
Product Developers
Research & Development
Strategic Planning
IT Senior Consultants
Optimizers
- Turn abstract ideas into practical solutions.
- Like single correct answers to problems.
- Can sort through large amounts of data, and pinpoint faults.
- Confidently make sound evaluations and select the best solutions.
- Have little patience with ambiguity.
- Interested in idea evaluation, selection and action planning.
Typical occupations include:
Engineering/Engineering Design
Manufacturing Engineering
Finance
IT Programmers/Analysts
IT Systems Developers
Accounting
Technical Customer Support
Implementers
- Enjoy getting things done and being involved in new experiences.
- Excel at adapting to specific circumstances and making things work.
- Like to try things out for real rather than mentally test them.
- Risk takers: don’t need to completely understand something before taking action.
- Willing to try as many approaches as necessary until they find one that works for everyone.
- Enthusiastic and at ease with others, but can appear impatient or even pushy when moving to action.
Typical occupations include:
IT Operations
Secretarial/Administrative Support
Project Managers
Sales
Customer Relations
Manufacturing/Production
Logistics
Purchasing