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Myers Briggs In Organizations Workshop

Myers Briggs In Organizations Workshop. Facilitator Richard W. Moore, Ph.D. Directions. Complete and score instrument Think about your behavior at work when responding. Objectives. Understand your personal preferences and how they affect your Managerial style.

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Myers Briggs In Organizations Workshop

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  1. Myers Briggs In OrganizationsWorkshop Facilitator Richard W. Moore, Ph.D.

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

  3. 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.

  4. 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 individual’s different ways of approaching a problem can improve team performance. • Predict strengths and blinds spots for teams.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. 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

  10. 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?

  11. 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

  12. Discussion Point: Four Temperaments • Find and review your temperament on page 34. • Discuss how these preferences influence your behavior at work:

  13. 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?

  14. 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. M-B Profile and Groups

  15. Map # Team members in Each Quadrant

  16. Map # of Team Members in Each Temperament

  17. Based on your profiles answer these questions • How heterogeneous of homogeneous is your team? • How would you describe you team’s workstyle(s)? • What are your team’s 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?

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