Personal Awareness - Using Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)

The MBTI is very popular and thoroughly enjoyed by participants. It provides them with an in depth insight into their specific personality type, highlighting their inherent ‘strengths’ and revealing their possible ‘weaknesses/work areas’. It provides excellent knowledge of specific roles in, and contributions to, the team.

However the standard MBTI provides very little transfer of learning to the actual workplace. It is too complex to actually implement and get effective results. Most participants forget their type in a very short time frame, and certainly don’t know how to ‘establish’ somebody else’s type. This makes the next ‘animal’ step very important.

Our solution: Divide the 16 MBTI types into four categories which are easier to work with and remember.

Golden Retriever	Lion	Worker Bee	Otter

Rationale/ Outcomes:

Provides ready to implement, easy to understand (and remember) personality type information that actually gets used in the workplace to improve interpersonal relationships and outcomes. Organisations and participants alike really enjoy it and find it very valuable and useable. It dramatically improves interpersonal tolerance and understanding. It also introduces a new vocabulary into the workplace ensuring an improved transfer of learning from the ‘classroom’ to the work environment.

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