Team building with the MBTI questionnaire (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator)

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Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)

The MBTI Questionnaire (Myers Briggs Type Indicator) is widely used in organisations for personality type assessment, helping people to become more appreciative and tolerant of other preferred styles of communication and patterns of behaviour.

The Type Indicator Questionnaire identifies a range of Myers Briggs personality types which are invaluable for understanding team dynamics and relationships.

How we use the Myers Briggs Questionnaire

At KSL Training, we provide a licensed MBTI Myers Briggs Type Indicator practitioner to work with small and large sized teams as part of a fun MBTI Team Building Workshop.

Client feedback from some of these events is provided below.

Our Myers Briggs workshops help to explain each of the communication preferences from the MBTI Questionnaire in an interactive, supportive and fun way, helping each team member to acquire insights about how they and their colleagues prefer to take in information and make decisions.

Armed with this information, we then help interpret what this means for how the team communicate and work together now and ultimately what improvements could be made to increase the effectiveness of the team.

MBTI Myers Briggs Type Indicator Workshop - Half Day

We can facilitate a half day MBTI workshop to draw out the different Myers Briggs personality types for you, in around 3 to 4 hours, dependent upon the time available utilising the MBTI questionnaire. An example of the way we might facilitate the workshop for you is listed below:

Half Day MBTI Workshop Objectives:

The MBTI workshop will provide each team member with:

  • an insight into how each team member prefers to communicate and make decisions based on their Myers Briggs personality types and profile
  • an appreciation of how their communication preferences influence their overall team interactions

Half Day MBTI Workshop Outline:

  • Understanding MBTI Type: overview presentation and discussion
  • Deciding your preferred Type: individual review and coaching, reading of Introduction to Type booklet
  • Valuing differences: 4 interactive exercises and group discussions to explore the communication preferences and differences to increase understanding
  • Reflections on the session: identification of key learning points and how these can be applied at work

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MBTI Myers Briggs Type Indicator Workshop - 1 Day

With a day available to explore your team members' communication preferences and the impact this has on the team's effectiveness, we have an opportunity to explore their individual Myers Briggs personality types in more detail and add a team exercise to apply the team's learning and insights from the morning.

The team exercise in the afternoon can be designed to meet your specific goal for the day and can be indoor or outdoor and as fun and challenging as you wish it to be.

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Online MBTI Questionnaire

As part of a facilitated team building and communication session, we ask all participants to complete the online MBTI Questionnaire prior to attending to ensure the team get the most from the time spent together.

The Myers Briggs Type Indicator Questionnaire:

The Myers Briggs Type Indicator questionnaire is based on a personality framework that helps individuals to understand their preferences for taking in information and making decisions. 

The framework also looks at where a team member prefers to focus their attention and how they prefer to live their life.  It will provide information about the team member's preferred style of working and interacting with other people. 

There are no right or wrong answers and all possible ways of coming out on the MBTI questionnaire are equally valid. A key feature of the Myers Briggs Type Indicator is its focus on the likely strengths and positive qualities of different personality styles, and so the feedback a team member receives will always be constructive.

People typically take about 25 minutes to complete the MBTI questionnaire. However, there is no time limit so each team member will be able to take as much time as they need. The questionnaire asks each team member 80 questions where they will be presented with a choice of two statements of behaviour and asked to choose the statement that comes closer to describing how they usually feel or act.

For those teams not wanting to use the online facility for completing the questionnaire, a paper based version of the Myers Briggs Type Indicator can be supplied.

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The Myers Briggs Type Indicator Results:

Based upon their individual responses to the Myers Briggs questionnaire each team member will receive a short automated report to identify which of the sixteen personality types best describes themselves. Within the same report the team member will be able to see the level of strength of their communication preferences as well as some initial insights into their reported MBTI type.

The Myers Briggs personality type represents a team member's preference in four separate categories, with each category composed of opposite poles. The four categories describe key areas that combine to form the basis of an individual's personality type as follows:

  • Where you focus your attention - Extraversion (E) or Intraversion (I)
  • The way you take in information - Sensing (S) or (N) INtuition
  • The way you make decisions - Thinking (T) or Feeling (F)
  • How you deal with the outer world - Judging (J) or Perceiving (P)

The results of the MBTI questionnaire are for each team member and will only be disclosed to other team members at the team building session supported by an agreement of confidentiality.

As the Myers Briggs Type Indicator questionnaire is based upon self perception, the team member will also have the opportunity during the team building session to explore the communication preferences in more depth before conveying their self assessed communication preferences to the team.

Client Feedback

Informative, good pace, relaxed approach, very useful.

Kate Morgan, Partner Director,
The Mileage Company

This course has enabled me to see how the others in the group function and to get an understanding of their styles of organisation.

Mike Sharp
Milton Abbey School

Very enjoyable, interesting concepts, learnt lots!

Steve Norman, Network Design & Customer Relations,
AboveNet Communications

Great - very informative and insightful.

Jackie Knight, Area Manager,
Money Shop

More Information

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Very well presented. Great preparation was evident. Clear explanations of 'types'. Best of three experiences of this type of event. Good team involvement facilitated by trainer. Thoroughly enjoyed the day.

Lynne Head

Manager - Home Office

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