Type and Teams.
High performing teams are comprised of people who know their own personality style, know the styles of their teammates, and know how to use type to get work done. It sounds simple, but it’s not always easy! Type provides a common language to help team members understand each other and identify the best ways to work together.
Some teams do a half-day MBTI team-building workshop, while others combine two workshops into a full-day workshop or schedule a series of half-day workshops on several different topics. In addition to the workshops described below, workshops on other topics or that offer other combinations of topics are also available. Patrick can work with you to determine which workshop or workshops would be best for your team building goals.
MBTI Team
Building Workshops TO OPTIMIZE TEAM EFFECTIVENESS
Using MBTI Type to Optimize Team Effectiveness
This half-day workshop is the foundational type workshop and equips the team to begin using type immediately in their work together.
Participants will:
- Become familiar with the framework of MBTI type and the definitions of the 8 MBTI preferences
- Examine their own MBTI report and MBTI type
- Experience the application of type to communicating, presenting information, giving feedback, and working with others
- Discover practical tips and techniques for using MBTI on the team
- Become familiar with the types of their teammates
- Set goals for applying MBTI type to optimize the team’s effectiveness
Using MBTI Type to Optimize Team Effectiveness, Part II
This half-day workshop builds on the teamwork done in the foundational workshop and takes a closer look at the type of each person on the team.
Participants will:
- Hear and discover the best and worst ways to work with each member of the team
- Meet one-on-one with each team member to identify the pluses and minuses of that type combination and how to address the minuses
- Analyze the type distribution of the team and its resulting potential strengths and challenges
- Commit to specific actions they’ll take individually to apply type to the team’s success
Using MBTI Type to Read People, Influence Others, and Navigate Change
This half-day workshop follows the foundational workshop and applies type to additional topics.
Participants will:
- Hear and share best practices of using type at work
- Get answers to any type questions they’ve had since the first workshop
- Discover how to pick up on type clues in others
- Explore how to use type to influence others
- Discover how to use type to navigate change
Using MBTI to Deal with Stress
This half-day workshop follows the foundational workshop (at a minimum), and takes both a deep and practical dive into type and how to use it to deal with stress.
Participants will:
- Examine the mechanics of how stress affects type
- Explore type-specific stress triggers
- Discover type-specific stress reactions and remedies
- Identify tips for supporting your type when under stress
- Discover type-specific strategies for regaining equilibrium
- Explore the development opportunities inherent in stress events
