Newest Edition - MBTI® Team Building Program: Leaders Resource Guide
posted by kgonzalez
CPP recently released the third edition of the MBTI® Team Building Program - Leaders Resource Guide. This edition includes plenty of new handouts and activities for you to use to conduct a teambuilding workshop. Truthfully, I had never gone through any of our binders before, so I thought this was a perfect opportunity to do so. I found the binder to be overwhelmingly filled with resources.
Here is a broad overview of what the MBTI Team Building Program binder includes, as it is divided into five parts:
1. Beginning the Teambuilding Process - This part includes all the prep work of the workshop, such as the initial client contact and the recommended steps in the contracting and interviewing process. There is a section that includes several resources on how to “sell” your client on teambuilding. You will find samples such as interview questions, interview forms, a teambuilding contract and more. These are all intended to be reproducible materials.
2. The Teambuilding Workshop - This second part includes things to cover during the workshop, as well as post-workshop ideas of how to conduct a follow-up session and an understanding of how and why teambuilding interventions can go awry. Also includes a pre-workshop checklist, a sample one-day teambuilding workshop agenda, two activities to “break the ice” when starting a workshop, handouts, more activities, and an evaluation form to help you assess your teambuilding effectiveness.
3. Team Analysis Using the Type Table and the Lenses - Includes tools to help you conduct a team analysis in which you analyze the types that make up your team. This part also describes the Lens approach, which is a useful way to group types according to common attributes.
4. Applying Type Lenses to Core Issues of Teambuilding - This part will review each Lens (Function, Quadrants, Temperaments and Dynamics) in depth showing how each relates to communication, team culture, leadership, change, problem solving/conflict resolution, and stress. It will cover three components of each lens including: about the lens; applying the lens; one activity for each core issue, for a total of six activities to use with your clients.
5. Additional Resources - There is an alternative workshop format here for you to use, along with more team-building activities for you to use. You’ll also find a handy bibliography to the sources mentioned throughout as well as organizations you can contact to deepen your knowledge on the MBTI® instrument.
In addition to all this, a CD of handouts and templates for you to print as well as training slides to use during your presentation is included. You’ll notice that a big theme in all five parts is ‘activities’. There is a wealth of information in this binder, so I will be going through it some more and giving you a sneak peak of a few sample exercises and activities that you will find. Keep checking back for more!
