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NAVIGATING DIVERSE PERSONALITY TYPES IN THE WORKPLACE FOR IMPROVED TEAM COHESION. An MBTI based training course.

Day One

• Introduction of Trainer and Participants
• Overview of the 2 day course, including housekeeping.

DAY 1 AM: CREATING A LEARNING MINDSET AND APPETITE FOR CHANGE

• Ice breakers and communication related warm up exercises.
• Personal Journeys Exercise. Exploring what success looks and feels like for people and the people they work with, as well as the business as a whole.
• Games and exercises to understand how to measure success.
• Health, happiness and productivity. Some slides, statistics and science on the benefits of great communication and rapport.

BREAK

Understanding different Personality Types

• Introduction to MBTI 
• Jung's Theory as the Foundation of MBTI
• The 4 Dichotomies of MBTI Personality Preferences

• The 16 Personality Types.
• Beginners guide to other personality and communication tools, The Big Five and NLP.
• Games and exercises to clearly understand personality and learning types and why and when they may get frustrated.

LUNCH

DAY 1 PM

All about you. 

• Understanding your own personality type and how to get your needs met.
• Understanding the strengths and weaknesses of different personality types
• How each MBTI personality types adapts to external changes.
• Communication strategies that help people to understand you.
• Scenario based role-play exercises that bring to life these traits in different situations.

BREAK

All about everyone else.

• Understanding other personality types and how to meet the needs of others.
• Listening, understanding, adapting and reaching clarity with different personality types.
• Mind reading for beginners.
• Communication habits that help others thrive.
• Scenario based role-play exercises that bring to life these approaches in different situations.

 

• Plenary and reflection. End of day one.

 

Day 2: BUILDING YOUR OWN TOOL KIT AND PUTTING IT TO WORK

Day 2 AM:

• Recap and reflections from Day 1.
• Warm up and ice-breakers using specific tools (from, MBTI, NLP and Big Five) required for the day ahead.

PRODUCTIVITY AND PERSONALITY TYPES

• The science behind productivity in all forms of communication and how they relate to personality types..
• Task: Creating your personality type communication strategy.

Break

• Task: Creating your strategy for the personality type opposite to yours..
• Group work: Opposites attract communication translation challenge.

LUNCH BREAK

GETTING REAL AND PRACTICAL

The afternoon is all about applying the tools and strategies learnt for real conversations/communication. We explore a series of scenarios relevant to people's real work roles  to employ and practice strategies for:

• Spoken communication
• Written/Email communication.
• In person communication
• Remote communication
• Visual communication.

Keeping the learning going. Change and new skills can take time, so we end the training by establishing how individuals can support, feedback and review the impact of newly adopted behaviours. 

• Summary of learning.

Course End.