Team Development Topics
Topics are usually one hour in length, but can be modified to fit time constraints. A
one hour time
frame allows for presentation, small group exercises, individual
exercises and large group discussion
of the topic.
MBTI Introduction, History and Research
Learn how the MBTI has been used by education and business during
the last seventy years
Understand what makes the MBTI the most practical psychological
tool in the marketplace
Identify what research provides the most useful human development
strategies for your business
Master the key principles that help you understand how and why
people behave as they do
Understanding Self and Interpersonal Style
Understand your personality themes and dynamics
Identify the different social styles and temperaments people have
Learn how to resolve conflicts quickly with others
Improve your key relationships at work or home
Management Style and Managing Others
Understand how your personality determines your management style,
focus and values
Manage others based upon their values, needs and scheduling preferences
Learn how to compensate for your management style weaknesses or
"blind spots"
Get better performance from others by affirming their strengths
and developing their weaknesses
Understanding Partners
Harmonize with partners by altering your communications and expectations
Identify where and why communication breaks down, then fix it
Learn how to look for compatibility and opposing factors in strategic
partners
Discuss your partners' control needs, decision-making and problem-solving
differences.
Developing and Managing Work Teams (Level I)
Build stronger, more tolerant relationships where conflict existed
Use people smarts to faciliate team synergy and performance
Learn how to assess teams that aren't performing
Develop visual aids on each team member illustrating their problem-solving
dynamics
Understand your organization's personality, values, style and
time preferences
Construct your organization's type chart to facilitate organization
wide communications
Use an organizational type talent inventory to facilitate task
assignments and team design
Design an organizational development strategy using type applications
and principles
Understand your leadership style, strengths and weaknesses
Design effective leadership strategies that appeal to all personality
types
Create a leadership development plan based on MBTI leadership
research
Identify the personal qualities of effective leaders
Use typewatching to conduct meetings more effectively
Assign work based upon type to maximize motivation, minimize stress
Resolve communications problems by defining problems in terms
of type, not personal qualities
Communicate organizational goals in a broader range of perspectives,
needs and values
Understand how your customers are different in order to find out
what they want
Hear the customer's needs and talk their language which may require
your non-preferred style
Tailor the product or service to their type so the customer relationship
endures over time
Select one of four closing strategies based on customer cues and
type
Understand how one type's pleasure (excitement) is another type's
pain (stress)
Identify how one type can drive another type up the wall by their
personal habits or style
Learn to tell the difference between what can be controlled or
changed in others and what can't
Develop a personalized stress management strategy based on your
type
Identify how different types experience time, then stop trying
to change people
Understand your personal strengths and weaknesses related to schedules
and deadlines
Develop a plan for changing your preferred types of procrastination
Recognize that each type has needs around time, turning deadlines
into lifelines
Understand how different types experience and define conflict
Apply a five-step model to resolve conflicts with other types
Learn short-cuts to resolve conflicts based upon people smarts
Evaluate the usefulness of conflict based upon personal and business outcomes
Understand what determines organizational character and organizational
lifecycles
Identify the characteristics of sixteen different organizational
types
Examine the organizations shadow to plan developmental or change
efforts
Determine your organization's type using the Organizational Character
Index (OCI)
Identify characteristics of winning teams
Define the purpose and goals of the team
Create action plans for achieving the goals
Analyze team compatibility, dysfunction, synergy, interdependence,
supports, and productivity
Learn how to get along with each personality type at work
Understand the values, attitudes, skills and motivations of your
co-workers
Identify the learning style and blind spots for different types
Know your style of asserting authority and how other types respond
to it
Discuss psychological perspectives on midlife transitions
Practice storytelling: clarifying and telling your own story
Develop personal plans for facilitating midlife transitions
Identify and prioritize tasks and goals to be accomplished in
the second half of life
Identify common themes in the Deming, Juran, Crosby models of
Quality Improvement
Discuss aspects of type that can be integrated into total quality
improvement efforts
Increase understanding of team dynamics that affect TQM decision-making
Apply type to successful quality management implementation
Assess and discuss each team member's strengths and weaknesses
related to the team's goals
Identify and discuss the team's assets and liabilities related
to team goal attainment
Develop implementation schedules and outcome criteria for each
team goal
Design a team development strategy using type principles
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