MBTI® Workshop - Level 1 - Introduction to the Myers Briggs Type Indicator
Workshop Objectives:
- Introduce the members of your team to the Myers Briggs Type Indicator
- To ascertain the attendees' Best Fit Type via the use of both: Reported type and Self Assessed type
- Encourage individuals to value diversity and understand how different personality types can work together more effectively
- Allow team members to learn about where they fit into the MBTI framework to encourage personal and team development in communication, leadership, change management and problem solving.
- To identify the team's self assessed modal type and highlight any potential blind spots
- Highlight each of the 4 dichotomies of MBTI by using group exercises and facilitated discussion
MBTI Overview:
A successful organisation is made up of people with different working styles that complement each other.
Understanding how your people work, and helping them understand how their personal style interacts with that of their colleagues, is an essential building block of creating a dynamic team.
With more than 3.5 million questionnaires completed worldwide every year and more than 13,000 qualified users in Europe, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) questionnaire is the most widely used personality questionnaire in the world. It is based on over 50 years of research and development, and is available in 19 languages.
MBTI describes an individual's personality preferences. It represents these in four dimensions:
Extraversion
Prefers to draw energy from the outer world of activity, people and things.
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Introversion
Prefers to draw energy from the inner world of reflections, feelings and ideas.
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Sensing
Prefers to focus on information gained from the five senses and on practical applications. |
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Intuition
Prefers to focus on patterns, connections and possible meanings. |
Thinking
Prefers to base decisions on logic and objective analysis of cause and effect. |
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Feeling
Prefers to base decisions on a valuing process, considering what is important to people. |
Judging
Likes a planned, organised approach to life, and prefers to have things decided. |
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Perceiving
Likes to leave things open. They are energised by last minute variables. |
What is the tool suitable for?
The MBTI Step I instrument is a self-awareness and development tool. It is suitable for employees at all levels, including board level. Workshop 1 is designed to give people a solid grounding in the dynamics of type theory and to give them the tools for further individual and team development using MBTI as a framework. It is suitable to run in conjunction with many of our team formats.
What next?
Contact EML for more information on the use of MBTI within your organisation and in conjunction with our full range of team building events.
- Full or half day programme
- This is an indoor format
- Questionnaires completed pre-event
- Space required: Conference room
- Recently completed by: Conduit PR
MBTI is an incredible tool that even after a short session can give people a great insight into the way that they behave and why - and how this fits into a team environment. An afternonn of Team Challenge really complements this workshop.
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