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Creating High-Performing Teams

 

Duration: 1 Day (10 am to 5 pm with one hour lunch break)

Cost: $ 799 + GST

Course Outline

Leverage the MBTI instrument for effective team dynamics and bottom line results.

Now you can use the MBTI tool s powerful insights into personalities and preferences to help transform the way people work together.This one day application program will provide you with cognitive maps, tools and practical resources for integrating MBTI type understanding and skills into teamwork.

Use the MBTI tool to reduce dysfunction, capitalize differences and utilize individual strengths!

Who Should Attend

HR professionals, training managers, OD professionals, career coaches and consultants, project managers, sales managers, line managers and supervisors qualified to administer the MBTI instrument.

How You Will Benefit

• Gain experience in using the MBTI instrument as a team-building and intervention tool
  
• Receive tools and resources to maximize team effectiveness
  
• Get tactics for working with and negotiating team differences in communication and problem-solving styles
  
• Identify strategies for dealing with stress in the workplace

What You Will Cover

Using the MBTI Tool in Team Building

• The increasing importance of teams in organizations
• The benefits of team type diversity
• Common team issues related to type

Effective Ways to Introduce Type of Teams

• Setting the stage for optimal team buy in for the MBTI instrument
• Identifying differences between type and trait measures
• Applying MBTI preferences to teamwork
• Clarifying the meaning of MBTI results, verifying type
  

Use the MBTI Information to Negotiate Team Differences

• Experiencing a team activity to identify and negotiate type differences
• Constructing and using the type table matrix to identify impacts of team type distributions
• Dealing with team type imbalances
• Challenging type bias and stereotyping

 Apply Type Knowledge to Solve Common Team Issues

• Using type tools to assist teams in communicating more effectively
• Applying type to decision-making and problem-solving
• Recognizing the effects of the team leader's type
  
  

Use Type Dynamics to Understand Effective and Ineffective Uses of the MBTI

• Recognizing the power of the core of personality the basis of team members' strengths
• Identifying common stressors in teamwork for different personality types and the impacts on team interactions
• Using type awareness to assist team members in supporting each other

Practical Considerations

• Appropriate and inappropriate uses of the MBTI tool
• Ethical considerations of using the MBTI instrument in a team setting
• Contracting practices to enhance your professional use of the MBTI instrument
• Agendas for team building

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