Myers-Briggs®
- No. of different personality types I have encountered this week: 16
- No. of different personality types I have got along well with this week: 16
This week, I have mostly been discussing Myers-Briggs®.
First, in a training session with 2 senior managers – to help them better understand the impact they have on their teams and how they can adjust their approaches for individual staff members, to get better results.
Next, in a discussion with an IT manager about how to improve his communication with the company’s executive team by making a few simple changes to the language he used.
Then, in redesigning the slides for a client’s seminar presentation to give it greater impact and thus increase the number of customers seeking their services.
And finally, in resolving a dispute between 2 staff members at logger-heads over one another’s attitude to a project.
Myers-Briggs® is an industry leading personality profiling tool that has a multitude of uses in business.
It can help you understand your own preferences in terms of maintaining energy, taking in information, making decisions and organising your time. It can also help you recognise signs of stress and give you a strategy for handling it. Once you know your own personality type, you can begin to recognise the preferences of the people around you. This, in turn, means you can better motivate and influence results and outcomes.
We know that some people are sceptical of what they perceive as ‘psycho-babble’. We’ve been on enough ‘touchy-feely’ courses ourselves to know that they’ve probably got a point. The difference with Myers-Briggs® is that stacks of workplace evidence back up the hypothesis. We’ve rejected a lot of so-called psychometrics over the years. With Myers-Briggs® however, we don’t just teach the stuff, we use it every day in the director roles we fulfill for some of our client firms*.
If you’re not sure how this will help your particular business, check out our special offers. We might be mad but we’re so sure that you’ll see the value of this type of staff development once you get to grips with it, (and of think training & development as a service provider) that we’re offering a limited number of new customers the chance to experience a Myers-Briggs® session for just £25 per delegate and the price of our train ticket.
To find out how you can use Myers-Briggs® to your advantage, contact us for a chat or take a look at our Myers Briggs® Programmes.
*Wendie Michie and Gavin Aubrey, Directors of think training & development provide Interim Executive Director services to some of Think’s client companies.
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