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AMA's Myers-Briggs Type Indicator - MBTI - Qualification Program
Seminar Overview
This workshop helps qualify you to administer the MBTI tool as well as apply it to the problems of managers, professionals and organizations. Enhance your management effectiveness by understanding the different personality types in your organization. Gain credibility with clients and improve your coaching, training, team-building, cross-functional communication and OD efforts. Keywords: interpersonal skills, people management, human relations, MBTI assessment, type dynamics, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. CEUs: 1.8. Fee per person: $1695, $1495 for AMA members.
*When registering by phone, be sure to use our Priority Code: XNNT
Provider: AMA (American Management Association International) – $1,695
Topic(s): Leadership & Management > Interpersonal Skills
Who Should Attend?
HR professionals, training directors, managers, OD consultants, coaching professionals and sales directors
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Detailed Overview/Outline
Get qualified to administer the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), the world’s most widely used personality assessment!
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI) tool will help you understand the 16 unique personality types at work in order to better coach employees, create harmonious teams and promote cooperation, productivity and performance. How You Will Benefit
- Apply the MBTI to understand unique personality characteristics in order to offer employees insight of and appreciation for their strengths and challenges
- Discover how employees communicate and interact with others and how they can improve their interactions
- Use the MBTI results to enhance your management effectiveness and to improve productivity and performance
- Transfer skills to training, team building and communication
What You Will Cover
History and Overview of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Instrument
- Presenting MBTI type to groups
- MBTI type results and the verification process
- Guidelines for administration of the MBTI instrument
Experiencing Type
- The four MBTI dichotomies: Extraversion-Introversion, Sensing-Intuition, Thinking-Feeling, Judging-Perceiving
- MBTI Type dynamics and development
Psychometrics and the MBTI Instrument
- Basic measurement definitions
- Construction of the MBTI inventory
- Understanding computer scoring
Ethics
- Best practices in ethical applications of the MBTI instrument in organizations
- Four role-play scenarios
Giving Individual Feedback on MBTI Type
- Interpreting the MBTI instrument—a step-by-step guide
- Checklist on giving feedback
- Demonstration of individual feedback
- Triad role plays and discussion
Implications of MBTI Reliability and Validity for Interpretation and Organizational Application
- Reliability of the MBTI instrument
- Validity of the MBTI instrument for organizational applications
- Career choice and the MBTI instrument: self-selection ratios
Using the MBTI Instrument
- Organizational applications and activities
Who Should Attend
Training directors, HR professionals, managers, OD consultants, coaching professionals and sales directors who wish to become familiar with the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and/or take the MBTI qualifying exam.
MBTI Qualifying Exam
CPP, Inc., the publisher of the MBTI instrument, establishes standards for qualifying to purchase the assessment. To qualify, participants must:
- —Be present and participate in all three days of the seminar.
- —Pass an objective exam—required, provided and scored by the publisher.
- —Complete an exercise in interpreting MBTI results.
The qualifying exam consists of 90–100 multiple-choice questions and is administered in the afternoon of Day 3 of the seminar. Participants must answer 80% of the items correctly to pass. Results will be forwarded to you within three weeks. All the knowledge you need to successfully complete the exam is covered in the prereadings, workshop lectures and handouts. In the unlikely event that you do not make the 80% passing mark, the publisher provides a short-answer retake exam.
To complete the 35 hours of required prework, you must register no less than three weeks prior to start date. Prework materials will be sent via FedEx. If you cancel and are unable to attend, AMA will withhold $120 for materials.
AMA also offers Creating High Performing Teams Using the MBTI Instrument (Seminar #8801). Register for any session of both programs for a special discount price.
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator®, MBTI, Introduction to Type and the MBTI logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Trust in the U.S. and other countries.
Note: Successful completion of this course qualifies you to administer the MBTI instrument.
To stay on top of developments in the world of MBTI, visit AMA's Online MBTI Community. You’ll find timely articles and valuable resources such as blogs, discussion groups, current news highlights, book reviews and an “ask the experts” feature.
®MBTI, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and the MBTI logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Trust in the United States and other countries.
This Seminar Features Blended Learning
AMA Blended Learning combines instructor-led training with online pre- and post-seminar assessments, tune-up courses and other resources to maximize your training goals. Through a blend of proven instructor-led seminars and powerful online technology, AMA Blended Learning provides a compelling and more comprehensive experience for the learner—producing a greater return-on-investment for the employer and the seminar participant. Extended Description
Learning Objectives
- AMA Qualification Program for the MBTI Instrument
- Instructions for Self-Administration of the MBTI Instrument
- How to Use the Participant Notebook
- The Purpose of Qualifying Programs
- Qualification vs. Certification
- The MBTI Qualifying Exam and Interpretation Evaluation
- Typical Questions about the Face-to-Face Interpretation
- Assumptions and Expectations
- Program Objectives
Overview of the MBTI Instrument
- Understand the History and Development of the MBTI Instrument and Its Relationship to Jung’s Theory of Psychological Types
- Explain the Dichotomous Nature of the MBTI Preferences
- Verify Type
- Identify Appropriate MBTI Forms and Resources for Various Uses
- Score the MBTI Self-Scorable Form M
- Understand the Difference Between IRT Scoring Template Scoring, and Self-Scoring
- Identify the Four MBTI Attitudes/Orientations and the Four MBTI Functions/Processes
- Begin to Appreciate the Usefulness of the MBTI Instrument in Organizations
Experiencing the MBTI Preferences Type Dynamics and Development
- Clearly Understand and Apply the Eight MBTI Preferences to Everyday Life Situations
- Understand the Difference Between Attitudes and Functions and the Dynamic Interaction Between Them
- Explain Normal and Adaptive Type Developments
- Identify the Hierarchy of Type for Each of the 16 Types
- Apply Basic Type Dynamics to Coaching Behaviors
Basic Measurement Concepts and the MBTI Instrument
- Understand the Difference Between Descriptive and Inferential Statistics
- Identify and Define the Basic Measures of Central Tendency and Variability
- Interpret Correlation Statistics
- Explain the Concepts of Psychometric Reliability and Validity and Their Importance to the MBTI Instrument
Ethics of Using the MBTI Instrument in Organizations
- Understand the Basic Ethical Standards for Psychological Testing
- Apply the Standards to a Variety of Work Situations
- Appreciate the Importance of the Confidentiality of MBTI Results
Giving Feedback on Type
- Interpret an Individual’s MBTI Results Following APT Guidelines
- Identify Areas for Professional Development
- Construct a Type Table, Identifying the Four Functions of Each Type and Their Attitudes/Orientations
Implications of MBTI Reliability and Validity for Organizational Applications
- Evaluate Internal and Test-Retest Validity Data from the MBTI Manual
- Evaluate Validity Data from the MBTI Manual
- Explain How the Measurement Precision of Form M Has Improved Over Previous Forms of the MBTI Instrument
- Understand Self-Selection Ratios
- Design a Self-Selection Comparison Study
Practicing What We’ve Learned
- Design an Introductory Type Workshop
- Recognize the Value of Type-Diverse Strengths
- Analyze a Project and Assign Tasks According to Type Function and Attitude
- Formulate Questions That Require Clarification
Sponsor Background:
The American Management Association was founded in 1923. They have built a content control check into every one of their professional seminars. Plus a series of checks and balances to ensure that the content of every AMA seminar is precisely targeted to:
- provide comprehensive, hands-on training that is of practical use when you return to the job
- focus on need-to-know specifics, relevant to the demands of global business today
- offer the expertise and personalized attention of top-ranking instructors
- facilitate your career development and business savvy
Whether you're looking for a solid foundation of business fundamentals or strategies to help you seize growth opportunities for your company, AMA offers expert instruction to help you:
- manage your priorities effectively
- cultivate more productive working relationships
- increase your on-the-job value
- align your skills with marketplace demands
- bring out the best in people, processes and yourself
Cancellation and Refund Policy
If you cannot attend a seminar you may contact AMA in advance to transfer to a future session, or can send someone to take your place. If you need to cancel your attendance, AMA will give you a complete refund if you cancel more than three weeks before your seminar begins. To cancel, simply call. If you cancel with less than three weeks' notice, you will be liable for the entire seminar fee, however you may request a courtesy transfer to use at any future AMA seminar of equal or lesser value. The courtesy transfer must be used within one year of the date of your originally scheduled seminar. In fairness to all attendees, if you do not attend a seminar session for which you are confirmed, and do not cancel with a minimum of three weeks’ notice as described above, you will be charged the entire seminar fee.
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