Led by Patrick Kerwin and available in either a half-day or full-day format, each team-building workshop is tailored to meet the needs of your team. Planning for the workshop begins with a conversation between us to discuss your goals for the workshop, the dynamics of the team, the team’s familiarity with the MBTI® instrument, specific topics or issues of focus, and items such as the length of the workshop, fees, dates, and location.
Because team building occurs best through interaction, each workshop includes interactive personality type activities and discussions that apply personality type to teamwork. A key component of each workshop is that team members learn about themselves and learn about their fellow team members; however, there’s an additional and essential applied component: That team members identify and commit to specific MBTI®-related behavioral and/or operational changes they’ll make going forward as a team.
My consistent goal is for the team to leave the workshop working together even more effectively
than when they first walked in.
This workshop is designed for teams that are new to the MBTI® instrument, or that are using the MBTI® instrument for the first time together as a team. Team members complete the MBTI® instrument on-line prior to the workshop, and results are presented during the workshop. This workshop utilizes the MBTI® Step I Report, which provides each participant with a report of his or her 4-letter personality type results. Workshop topics include:
- Introduction to Personality Type
- Overview of the MBTI® Instrument & Its Relevance to Teams
- Review of Individual MBTI® Step I Results
- Analysis of Team Dynamics
- Communication Style: Extraversion & Introversion
- Information Focus: Sensing & Intuition
- Decision Making: Thinking & Feeling
- Work Process: Judging & Perceiving
- Team's Commitment to Action
This workshop is designed for teams who have already used the MBTI® instrument together, or for senior leadership teams wanting a deeper analysis of personality type results. Team members complete the MBTI® instrument on-line prior to the workshop, and results are presented during the workshop. This workshop utilizes the MBTI® Step II Report, which provides each participant with a report of his or her 4-letter personality type results, and also produces individualized results on 20 additional facets of personality. Workshop topics include:
- Introduction to Personality Type
- Review of MBTI® Step I Results
- Overview of the MBTI® Step II Instrument
- Review of Individual MBTI® Step II Instrument Results
- Individual Personality Facet Activities
- Connecting with Others: Initiating – Receiving
- Focus of Attention: Concrete – Abstract
- Handling Differences: Questioning – Accommodating
- Dealing with Deadlines: Early-Starting – Pressure-Prompted
- Applications to Communicating, Handling Conflict, Making Decision, Dealing with Change
- Team’s Commitment to Action
These half-day workshops are designed for teams that have completed one of the workshops above, and that want a targeted application of personality type. These workshops can be held in conjunction with one of the workshops above, or scheduled as separate stand-alone workshops.
Targeted Applications workshops include:
- Optimizing Team Communication with the MBTI® Instrument
- Experiencing communication differences of the 8 MBTI® preferences
- Learning to spot verbal and non-verbal “type cues”
- Examining the influence of type on email communication
- Practicing flexing your style to better meet the communication needs of others
- Committing to specific behavioral changes to optimize team communication
- Optimizing Conflict Management with the MBTI® Instrument
- Analyzing conflict comfort & type preferences
- Identifying type-related conflict areas
- Discussing do’s and don’ts when dealing with conflict
- Discovering a type-related model for using in conflict situations
- Committing to specific behavioral changes to optimize conflict management
- Optimizing Change Management with the MBTI® Instrument
- Discussing a model of organizational change
- Identifying how type affects responses to change
- Applying type to change implementation and management
- Committing to specific behavioral changes to optimize change management
- Optimizing Stress Management with the MBTI® Instrument
- Discovering the dynamic interplay of the personality type preferences
- Discussing the impact of stress on type
- Identifying type-related energizers, stressors, and stress-reactions
- Discovering type-specific strategies for returning to normal
- Committing to specific behavioral changes to optimize stress management
- Optimizing Individual Development with the MBTI® Instrument
- Identifying type-specific strengths, contributions, and challenges
- Discovering potential type development needs and related development suggestions
- Examining the congruence between best-fit type vs. work type
- Committing to an individual action plan to optimize individual effectiveness on the team
Have a particular need not listed? Contact us to see if we can develop that workshop for you!
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