Leading with Insight: Using Myers-Briggs Type Indicator for productive work

©2008 Merryn Rutledge, Ed. D

Description

In today’s workplace, where so much work depends on teamwork, leaders must combine self-understanding with knowledge and skill in dealing with all kinds of people. None of us has time to waste on unproductive collaboration, conflicts with co-workers and external partners, or turnover that can be avoided. Based upon Carl Jung’s thinking, Isabel Myers and Katherine Briggs perfected the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator to help us identify our own and other people’s ways of evaluating information, making decisions, using time and completing work. Because MBTI allows you to look at different ways of meeting objectives, the MBTI gives leaders like you a powerful tool for managing people with insight and adaptability.

Learning Objectives

• Participants will learn how to use MBTI for deeper insight into how you lead and work with colleagues, including
• How to identify sources of “rubs” in communication
• How to constructively discuss differences in ways of communicating, making decisions, and completing work

Time Needed

1 day, about 6-7 teaching hours

Teaching Techniques

Presentation: 20%
Discussion: 20%
Praxis, including self-assessment and reflection: 60%

Agenda

• MBTI is sent to participants before the class, with an introductory letter and directions for completing the returning the Inventory for the instructor’s scoring
• Workshop begins with a 2-hour module to understand Type—one’s own and other people’s
• Practice sessions to learn to identify the key Type differences in evaluating information, decision-making, use of time and approach to task completion
• Force field analysis: forces for and forces impeding good communication
• Practice with constructive use of differences
• Practice with how to discuss Type in a difficult conversation

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