Best Practices for Applying the MBTI® Instrument in Organizations: A Skills-Building Workshop

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Detailed Overview/Outline

You’ve finished the MBTI® Qualifying Program…but are you prepared to apply it in your organization?

The MBTI® instrument can open the door to a whole new way of benefiting your organization—but only if you’re ready to use it. Completing the qualifying program is a great first step, but to become confident you have to practice, practice, practice! This interactive, hands-on one-and-a-half day workshop gives you the opportunity to apply the instrument in common workplace situations. You’ll engage in case studies, real-life scenarios and role play as you and your peers learn from each other, tap into the MBTI expertise of your seminar facilitator and increase your confidence in your work applications.

How You Will Benefit

• Increase your confidence and competence in using the instrument
• Better understand the connection between your type and your communication style
• Gain insight into how to communicate with your audience using type language
• Identify the links between type and the behaviors of decision makers
• Identify and resolve challenging situations using type
• Design an action plan for using the MBTI instrument in your organization

What You Will Cover
Identifying and practicing skills in flexing individual styles to communicate effectively

• Clarify descriptions and behavioral characteristics at work of each MBTI preference
• Differentiate the communication needs of different types from a type model
• Role-play using type knowledge to influence clients and/or key decision-makers
• Practice recognizing type cue in the behaviors of others

Applying type knowledge in conflict situations

• Recognize the influence of functions and attitudes on conflict
• Learn your type style in conflict situations, the type styles of others, and type-related techniques for dealing with conflict
• Apply type knowledge and a type model to conflict scenarios

Utilizing type dynamics to develop leaders and managers in organizations

• Analyze the impact of type on leadership styles
• Identify type-related blind spots on individual development
• Define type-specific do’s and don’ts for facilitating development

Developing an action plan

• Create next steps in MBTI skill development and integrating various levels of type knowledge into work

Who Should Attend
Trainers, HR professionals, OD practitioners, consultants, managers and all others who have completed an MTBI Qualifying Program and want to practice applying the MBTI instrument in common workplace situations.

Blended Learning

Access AMA’s online resources before the live portion of your training seminar to prepare and help align your learning experience. Continue after your instructor-led training with an online community where you will have the opportunity to view topical Web blogs and communicate with your seminar facilitator and peers to aid in your successful application of the MBTI instrument.

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.

1.5 day / 0.9 CEUs

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

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