Instructor:
Cynthia J. Bean, Ph.D.
Four-Hour
Course: A
grade of PASS or FAIL will be determined. The requirement for passing this
course is attendance/participation for the entire four hour duration of the
session.
Course
Description:
This course, MBTI™
Basics for Leaders, is designed to introduce the basic tenets of MBTI™ and its use by leaders in
a) facilitating high performance among followers and b) successfully leading
organizational change.
Course
Agenda:
8:30
Introduction and Welcome
8:
50 Opening activity - Leading Change: What does it take?
Lecturette and discussion activity
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Define
the difference between leadership and management
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Define
High Performance
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Explicate
the link between leadership and change
9:20
Lecture/Discussion of MBTI™ and what it tells us (part one)
10:00
Break
10:15
Lecture/Discussion of MBTI™and what it tells us (part two)
(This
discussion provides in-depth information about the aspects of personality
measured by the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator™. Based upon
Jungian psychology, this instrument is widely used to identify patterns and
preferences of behavior in individuals. In application in organizations, it
helps to clarify differences and offers insights into working and communicating
with a variety of people.)
11:00
Report individual results from MBTI™ to individual participants (Prior to taking this
course, individuals will have completed (voluntarily) the MBTI™ instrument. The results identifying the personality type
indicated by their completion of the instrument will be shared with each
person, results are confidential information shared only individually with each
person in writing. The instructor will allow time for one-on-one discussion and
questions after class.)
11:15
Leadership and MBTI™ discussion/activity
This discussion will center around
the differences among MBTI™ types regarding specific aspects of leadership. The activity will include identifying a
change communication process based upon the concepts in Kotters and Cohen’s
book, The Heart of Change. The
communication developed by each participant will then be analyzed for its
likely influence/effect in reaching other personality types, and a discussion
of leading change for heterogenous groups will conclude this segment.
12:00
Wrap up activity: Next steps (or, What do I do when I get back to my desk?)
Each individual will develop his/her own next steps in terms of the leaderful-behaviors they can enact and the leadership communication they can offer to reach their followers.
12:30
End
Course
Objective(s):
At the end of this course, the student should be able to:
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Understand
the difference between leadership and management
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Understand
the link between leadership and change
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Understand
definition of a ‘high performance’
organization
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Understand
important topics central to organizational development and change in practice,
especially leader communication designed to reach all followers
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Understand
what the MBTI instrument measures/does not measure, and
appropriate/inappropriate applications of results of MBTI instrument in an
organizational setting for individual, leader and team development.
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Be
able to use in practice the ideas of leadership and leadership communication
linked to motivating and communicating with all MBTI personality types
Suggested
Pre-requisites: This course is most
effective if all participants complete the MBTI instrument prior to the
session.
Required Text(s) will be provided:
1) Looking at Type™: The Fundamentals by Charles
Martin, Ph.D. (published by Center for Applications of Psychological Type and
available only through qualified facilitators and trainers).
2) Leadership and Type, pamphlet
published by Center for Applications of Psychological Type.
1) The
Heart of Change: Real Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations
by Kotter and Cohen, Harvard Business School Press