Organizational structure is becoming more and more team-oriented. While there is still a top down hierarchy in most companies, levels of management are becoming flatter and teamwork is more the rule than the exception. In this three-hour program work teams conduct two very effective team exercises, and all team members complete the MBTI (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator) psychometric instrument, the most popular and powerful personality assessment tool in use today. Each individual’s MBTI is scored and a four-page interpretive descriptor is provided. Team members learn about themselves and each other and how to use that knowledge to foster and sustain a productive and effective team.

The MBTI is the most widely used psychometric instrument in the world for helping individuals and work teams develop and enhance their skills at problem-solving, decision-making, and communication, both listening and speaking. It is also a key tool used for helping teams identify how obstacles, stress, and potential conflicts may arise that might threaten team performance.

Learning objectives for this program include:

• Individual and team personality assessment
• Understanding and getting on the team agenda
• Team building exercise #1 – What Did You Say?
• Team building exercise #2 – The Gold Watch
• Listening skills
• Verbal communications skills, both oral and written
• Individual and team Values clarification
• How the team can translate customer values into corporate value
• The concept of T.E.A.M. (Together Everyone Achieves More)

The MBTI provides each individual:

• A description of their personality type
• Their personal strengths
• Insight into how others perceive them
• Their potential growth areas
• Their contributions to the organization
• Their leadership style
• Their preferred work environment
• Awareness of potential pitfalls they may have that might impede performance
• Their preferred approach to problem-solving
• Their preferred approach to decision-making and strategic planning
• Suggestions for further development

The MBTI assessment helps leaders and teams celebrate their differences. They come to understand how each other perceives the outer world of people and things, and how they each prefer to go about making decisions and solving problems. Team members come to understand the “why” behind their co-workers’ behaviors, which helps in building trust and empathy within the group. Leaders and team members realize that they may be able to approach the same challenge from completely different perspectives and still achieve positive, desired outcomes.