MBTI Team Building
The MBTI is well known for its ability to provide an easy to grasp, non-judgmental understanding of differences in personality that enables:
- Improvements in individual and team performance
- A reduction in workplace conflict
- An atmosphere of understanding and clear communication
- Increased self-awareness in leadership and career coaching
The MBTI demonstrates some of the highest levels of consistency and reliability of any personality assessment product available. The MBTI is the most widely used personality assessment in the world, each year over 2 million assessments are administrated to individuals, often in the context of team building in organisations.
The MBTI assessment offers the following:
You can choose between the paper-based assessment or taking the survey online prior to the event and receiving a Report on the day.
- Identifies an individual’s preference for Extraversion (E), or Introversion (I), Sensing (S), or Intuition (N), Thinking (T), or Feeling (F), and Judging (J), or Perceiving (P) – indicated by a four-letter type ‘code’.
- Summarises underlying patterns common to most people of a particular type (of which there are 16 possible combinations).
- Offers dozens of supporting materials to help with a variety of applications, from team building, to managing people in change, to conflict management, leadership development, or career planning and decision making.
The MBTI is the most established team building personality profile instrument used in organisations.
It is well known to offer the following benefits to teams:
- Reducing unproductive work by improving communication
- Identifying individual and team areas of strength and weakness
- Helping match specific task assignments to certain MBTI Types
- Building an objective framework for dealing with conflict
- Helping individuals understand how different perspectives and methods can lead to useful and effective problem solving
- Predicting potential problem areas
- Teaching team members to value and work with the strengths of others
A half day wORKSHOP INCLUDEs:
- A short introduction to the preferences, allowing for self-assessment and either taking the profile in-person, or validation of the online assessment
- Splitting into groups, by preference, to explore the preferences ‘in action’ via experiential exercises (the bulk of the time is spent in this activity
- I would also suggest taking time to create a Type Table capturing the MBTI preferences of the team and providing time for them to discuss this, ‘what does this mean?’
The full day workshop includes:
- Each participant arriving at their validated MBTI Type
- Exploring the different preferences through a series of experiential group activities
- Constructing a ‘Living Type Table’ for the team in the afternoon and exploring the team’s strengths and weaknesses
- Reaching agreement on how the team will handle conflict better going forward as a result of the new understanding of personality
Each participant receives a booklet providing two full pages of information about each of the 16 personality types under the topics of:
- The eight preferences
- The eight function-attitudes
- Type development
- Stress and the inferior function
- Communication styles
- Temperaments
This resource was developed in Australia.
Contact us here to request a quotation for a half day or full day MBTI Team Building event with your Team
MBTI Team Building is a valuable experience for any group.
