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Myers Briggs Type Indicator
MBTI Myers Briggs Type Indicator Questionnaire
The Myers Briggs Type Indicator Questionnaire (MBTI) is widely used in organisations today as the outputs help individuals understand themselves and others better, becoming more appreciative and tolerant of other styles of communication and patterns of behaviour.
Based on 50 years of research and development initiated by Katharine Cook Briggs and her daughter Isable Myers, the authors studied and elaborated on the ideas of Swiss psychiatrist Carl G. Jung and applied them to understanding people around them.
At KSL Training, we provide a licensed MBTI Myers Briggs Type Indicator practioner to work with small and large sized teams to explain each of the communication preferences 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 the team draw out 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.
On-line MBTI Myers Briggs Type Indicator Questionnaire and Results
As part of a facilitated team building and communication session, we ask all participants to complete the on-line MBTI Questionnaire prior to attending to ensure the team get the most from the time spent together.
The MBTI Questionnaire:
The MBTI questionnaire is based on a personality framework that helps individuals to explore 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 questionnaire are equally valid. A key feature of the MBTI 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; 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 on-line facility for completing the questionnaire, a paper based version can be supplied.
The Myers Briggs Type Indicator Results:
Based upon their individual responses 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 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 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 MBTI 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.
Half Day MBTI Myers Briggs Type Indicator Workshop
If you are wanting your team to gain some initial insights into their preferred communication styles and develop an appreciation and tolerance to different styles of communication and ways of working, this is the team building event for you. We can facilitate this workshop for you between 3 to 4 hours, dependant upon the time available. As with all our team building events, we will design the right workshop for you and your team. However, to provide you with some idea of the type of team building event we can offer using the on-line MBTI Myers Briggs Type Indicator Questionnaire, we list an outline of an example workshop:
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
- 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
Full Day MBTI Myers Briggs Type Indicator Workshop
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 the team's communication preferences in more detail and add a team exercise to apply their learning 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.
Full Day MBTI Workshop Objectives:
The full day MBTI workshop will provide each team member with:
- an insight into how each team member prefers to communicate and make decisions
- an appreciation of how their communication preferences influence their overall team interactions
- an understanding of how to balance and utilise the whole team to increase the effectiveness of team communications and decision-making
Full Day MBTI Workshop Outline:
A typical workshop outline for the day could be:
- Getting to know your colleagues: speed chat exercise
- Defining teamwork: shapes exercise and group discussion to define teamwork
- 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
- MBTI Influences on the team: team challenge! exercise utilising the communication preferences within the team
- Review of Team preference dimensions: group discussion on the team’s collective communication preferences and the impact this has on the team's effectiveness
- Reflections on the day: identification of key learning points and how these can be applied at work
Contact us for more information about any topic covered or to gain a better understanding of the Myers Briggs Type Indicator questionnaire.
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