Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® STEP I

What Participants Will Learn…

• Discover your own preferred style, its strengths and potential pitfalls when you are interacting with others on the job
• Understand how others are "hard-wired" in how they prefer to interact with you
• Notice type-related behavior in those around you
• Flex your style to build rapport with key individuals
• Work constructively with the differences that each of us brings to the work team
• "Contract" for mutually effective working relations with individuals who are key to your performance and success

Overview…

Have you ever been stymied by a personality conflict or just plain old "poor chemistry" with an employee, boss, colleague, or customer? Have you ever found yourself presenting what you believe is a sensible idea to someone who doesn't see it your way? And how about those times when you just wonder why certain people act the way they do?

This highly animated and interactive workshop shows you how to deal effectively with the varied personalities we encounter in our daily worklife. You will be introduced to a powerful framework for understanding and responding to the many different ways people think, communicate, make decisions, and solve problems.

Points Regarding This Program…

• Target audience is managers, individual contributors, salespersons, customer contact staff, in fact anyone who would benefit from better understanding the current dynamics of their most important working or customer relationships.
• Participants complete the MBTI¨ in advance, on-line. Results are distributed to participants at the session.
• Half day: Participants will learn the fundamentals of "type," including the eight preferences, discover their own type preferences, and apply this knowledge to critical areas of interpersonal communications.
• Full day: Ideal for a departmental team building event because it offers sufficient time to apply type to several customized needs the group. For example, you might want to address managing conflict, improving working relations between sub-units, and building influence and impact with other departments in the organization.

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