MBTI Workshops

MBTI Murder Mystery

This Who Dunnit exercise was originally designed to show how information is communicated in problem solving groups.  Using the clue given they must find the murderer, weapon, time and place of murder, and the murder’s motive.

Pragmatic applications:

Learn how differing Types go about the challenge of deduction

Demonstrates the importance of a team capitalizing on each individual’s special talent.

Experience how the best results in problem solving come when all four dominant functions are engaged.

MBTI® Intensives

The MBTI® Intensives delve in-depth to specific areas of interest.  They each include the MBTI® assessment and explanation then quickly get into the topic of choice.  Berkana will tailor your session to issues specific to your organization.  This enables each group to dialogue precise versus ambiguous insights.  All LifeShops include accelerated learning techniques including experiential challenges. 

The Power of Organizational Character

Using the framework of MBTI® personality types, this LifeShop guides organizations to

Determine its specific character type

Understand its strengths and areas for development

Clarify how its character differs from that of other organizations or areas

Use the insights gained to strengthen its performance

This LifeShop includes a self-scoring Organizational Character Index assessment that can be distributed prior to or during the session.  We present examples from McDonald’s UPS, Kodak, and others to show how MBTI® organizational types influence behavior, performance and marketplace results.

Leadership

Linking type and leadership behaviors.  This LifeShop provides practical suggestions for executives, managers, and supervisors who want to increase their effectiveness in motivating others, improve productivity and job satisfaction, and refine awareness of their leadership style while discovering self-imposed barriers to development.

Team-up for Effectiveness

Help team members understand their MBTI® results and how they relate to their contributions on a team.  This LifeShop offers specific information about each type, including how individuals of each type lead, how they may conflict with other team members, how they influence others, how the contribute to the team, and how they can maximize effectiveness within the team.

Coaching

Address the individual needs and learning styles of those you coach/lead.  A clear five-step process for coaching is presented and includes tools for using Type to:

resolve conflict

influence others

develop effective work relations and

cope with interpersonal differences.

This LifeShop is a great resource to review unique strengths, contributions, sources of stress and preferred coaching styles, areas for individual development

MBTI®  and Change

This LifeShop provides cutting-edge tools for dealing with change and an organizational environment using MBTI®  personality type theory.  We provide strategies that help you handle existing programs through group exercises.

In the Grip:  Understanding Stress

An in-depth study of how stress and our inferior function of MBTI® type affects your life.  This LifeShop takes a look at when you are likely to erupt, what triggers it, and how it is expressed in different types; and more importantly how to return to your normal/usual operating state.  We then focus on how stress affects the workplace, and the effect of long-term stress on employees at all levels within your organization, based on research and the reported experiences of a stratified national sample of working adults.

Career Development

Get involved in your own career development using your MBTI® results.  This LifeShop provides interactive exercises and realistic descriptions to explore personality type and career matching.  We also provide tips on goal setting and decision making, and list potential obstacles in the career development process for all 16 MBTI® types.

Spirituality

Is your organization is excited by active expression of spirituality, or are they more interested in opportunities for reflection upon the divine?  Learn more about the powerful impact the MBTI® preferences can have on how people express their spirituality at home, and at work.

Improving Relationships for Couples

Based upon the research of two psychologists and what they have learned through more than 25 years of counseling to give couples insights into using type to improve MBTI® love relationships. We include an open forum for dialogue of common conflict areas with hints for overcoming them.

Sales and Marketing

In this LifeShop, we further explore the power of Type in sales and marketing situations. We provide salespeople practical ways to approach customers and build strong relationships.  During this session, we provide methods to estimate a client’s “type mode” based on behavior and language cues.  The salesperson can then match the approach to the customer’s type mode.