Myers Briggs In Organizations Workshop

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Myers Briggs In OrganizationsWorkshop

• Facilitator
• Richard W. Moore, Ph.D.

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Directions

• Complete and score instrument
• Think about your behavior at work when responding

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Objectives

• Understand your personal preferences and how they
  affect your Managerial style.
• Examine how MBTI effects teamwork.
• Understand the importance of individual
  differences in organizations.

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Value of the MBTI

• Better understand your own and others behavior at
  work.
• Develop a language for talking about individual
  differences in an objective manner.
• Understand how individuals different ways of
  approaching a problem can improve team
  performance.
• Predict strengths and blinds spots for teams.

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Understanding the MBTI

• Reflects back what you say about your self in a
  systematic way.
• Profiles what you prefer to do, not what you can
  do.
• Letters represent ends of one scale, your actual
  score is somewhere along the scale.
• All participation is voluntary.
• Rick is available for follow-up discussion.

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Myers-Briggs Type Indicators (MBTI)

• 1st Letter
• Energizing Orientation of your energy either
• Extroversion towards the outside world, people
  activities and things
• Introversion toward the world inside you,
  emotions and impressions.

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Myers-Briggs Type Indicators (MBTI)

• 2nd Letter
• Attending what a person pays attention to,
  either
• Sensing noticing what is actual, taking in
  information through the five sense, focus on
  specifics first.
• INtuition noticing what might be, take in
  information through a 6th sense, focus on the
  overall pattern first.

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Myers-Briggs Type Indicators (MBTI)

• 3rd Letter
• Deciding how a person makes decisions, either
• Thinking preference for structuring information
  to decide in a logical objective way
• Feeling preference for structuring information
  to decide in a personal, values orientated way.

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Myers-Briggs Type Indicators (MBTI)

• 4th Letter
• Living orientation to the outside world, how you
  deal with life either
• Judging preferring a planned organized life
• Perceiving preferring a spontaneous, flexible
  life

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Discussion Point

• On page 9 and 10 examine the preferences that
  go with your profiles.
• Discuss with your group
• Do you prefer these behaviors at work?
• Do you recognize people around you have the
  opposite preference?
• Have your preference affected you interactions
  with others?

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Discussion Point Quadrants

• On page 34 find your leading/following style.
• Discuss
• Does this description fit you?
• How has your type affected your interactions at
  work? With subordinates? With Peers?
• Give specific examples.
• Report in to larger group

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Discussion Point Four Temperaments

• Find and review your temperament on page 34.
• Discuss how these preferences influence your
  behavior at work

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Discussion Point 5 Your Type

• Find full description of your type in pages
  14-29.
• Review the description and see if it fits you.
• Review Potential Areas for Growth
• What are your blind spots? Where can you develop?

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M-B Profile and Groups

• Homogeneous Groups
• Start fast.
• Reach agreement easily.
• People feel comfortable.
• Generate fewer creative solutions.
• Tend to have collective blind spots.

• Heterogeneous Groups
• Start Slow.
• Have more conflict and have difficulty. reaching
  agreement
• People feel less comfortable.
• Generate more creative solutions.
• Catch errors and over sights.

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Map Team members in Each Quadrant
IS Thoughtful Realist IN Thoughtful Innovator
ES Action Oriented Realist EN Action Oriented Innovator
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Map of Team Members in Each Temperament
SJ Guardians SP Artisans
NF Idealists NT Rationalists
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Based on your profiles answer these questions

• How heterogeneous of homogeneous is your team?
• How would you describe you teams workstyle(s)?
• What are your teams strengths?
• What types of tasks will your team be best at?
• What types of tasks will be most problematic?
• What leadership style works with your team?
• What are your collective blind spots?