Friday, May 7, 2010

1pm EST – 2:30pm EST
MBTI CE Credits: 1.5

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More than anything else, teamwork is about collaboration – how people work together. But far too often, the focus on the team’s work is so great that the people aspects of the team are dismissed as secondary. When that happens, team members work with less energy and determination, misunderstandings occur and the pursuit of the team’s goal is undermined. The relational aspects of teamwork are typically seen as a problem to overcome rather than a tool that should be used to produce higher performance.

What makes teamwork so challenging is that each person on the team has influence on each of the other team members. How team members affect each other is a critical – yet so often neglected – determinant of the success of the team. Yet even when teams want to focus on their relationships, they often feel that they don’t have the tools or language to draw out useful insights. However, within the 4-letter MBTI code are elements that can provide rich ground for meaningful conversations about how team members can increase their productivity through sustaining positive relationships.

In the presentation, Ray will highlight three critical issues that affect collaboration and how personality type can provide insights to help team members work harder, smarter and faster. What you will learn in this webinar is:

1. the role of Temperament in motivation
2. the impact of the J/P preferences on communication
3. the problem of opposites – using Jungian functions to gain insight into conflict triggers

For MBTI facilitators this presentation will provide highly applicable and easy to implement next steps after an MBTI introductory workshop. For team leaders or team members, the presentation will provide tools to anticipate and avoid common team pitfalls, and ways to foster greater productivity.

About the Presenter
Ray Linder

Ray Linder is the Founder and CEO of Goodstewardship.com, an internationally recognized teacher of team success and personal development. With his practical and high-impact programs, along with his engaging, high-energy style, Ray has helped build winning teams for some of the world’s top organizations by teaching people the value of being themselves, and how to benefit from the natural gifts of others. The result is organizations being transformed into winning teams as each member is celebrated for their unique set of talents.

Ray’s work in the area of personality is internationally recognized and he has worked with Fortune 500 companies, government agencies such as the Office of Personnel Management and the Department of Justice, the U.S. Army, the District of Columbia, and major universities. He is author of three books, including What Should I Do With My Money? How Your Personality Affects Your Financial Behavior. Ray was featured on the CNBC program Watch and Make Money and his many media appearances include USA Today, the Washington Post, the Boston Herald, Bloomberg Wealth Manager, Mutual Funds Magazine Leadership, Focus on the Family, Bulletin of Psychological Type, and TypeWorks.

Ray is an associate of Otto Kroeger Associates, the world’s leading training firm for the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. He has over 25 years of business experience including corporate finance, investment management, fundraising and development, consulting, sales, pastoral ministry, and small business management.

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

1pm EST – 2:30pm EST
MBTI CE Credits: 1.5

Do the decisions of your decision-making partners occasionally leave you perplexed? Do you ever wonder about what motivates others during decision making? Do your own decisions, at times, catch you by surprise? This webinar explores the ways in which personality preferences influence how individuals typically make decisions. It is designed to help you make better decisions and understand more about how others approach decision making through the application of type theory. Using an in-depth case study, we outline strengths and challenges for decision makers that flow from psychological type and demonstrate how type can illuminate similarities and differences in decision-making style. The case study also serves to illustrate how type can provide a neutral language in which to discuss difficult decisions and lessen the conflicts that can erupt during the decision-making process.

In addition to the importance of exploring your style in relation to that of your decision making partners, delving into the gifts and challenges your preferences bring can help you to become a more balanced decision maker. Good decision making requires attention to all eight preferences, the four represented by the letters type in your code as well as their four less practiced and less familiar opposites. With this in mind, we provide type development tips that promote decision-making excellence. Join us for an opportunity to reflect on your assumptions about decision making and leave with strategies that can be applied immediately to improve individual and group decision making for decisions large and small, personal and professional.

Objectives

• Highlight ways in which psychological type influences decision making
• Suggest how type knowledge can help reduce conflict during decision making
• Explore methods for improving individual and group decision making
• Make decision making more fun (or at least less stressful!)

Who Should Attend:
This webinar is for anyone interested in exploring the impact of personality preferences on decision making and more specifically, practitioners and leaders – managers counselors, consultants, coaches, trainers, human resource professionals, educators, etc. – who want to help their colleagues and/or clients develop their decision making.

About the Presenters
Dr Katherine W. Hirsh

Dr Katherine W. Hirsh has been using psychological type and the MBTI® Tool in coaching, training, management consulting, education, and personal, professional and faculty development for over 20 years. Her assessment toolkit also includes the Strengths Deployment Inventory ® (SDI®), the Klein Group InstrumentÔ for Effective Leadership (KGI), the Strong Interest Inventory® and the Pearson-Marr Archetype IndicatorÔ (PMAI). She has consulted with clients locally, nationally, and internationally.

Katherine has taught psychology at Cambridge University (UK), Cardiff University (UK) and Macalester College (US); and instructional design at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities (US). She is a member of the traveling workshop faculty for the Collaboration for the Advancement of College Teaching and Learning and the faculty of the LearningLife and Compleat Scholar Programs at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.

Katherine is active in the type community, currently serving on the board of directors of the Association for Psychological Type International (APTi) in the role of President-Elect. She is a founding member of the board of the APTi e-Chapter. Katherine is a frequent contributor to the APTi Bulletin, producing essays, book reviews and other articles of practical interest to the Type community. She also is a regular speaker at local chapters of APTi and local and national type organizations outside North America.

Elizabeth Hirsh, MS

Elizabeth Hirsh, MS has been using psychological type and the MBTI® Tool in coaching, training, management consulting, education, and personal, professional and faculty development for 19 years. She has provided consulting, counseling, and education to individuals and groups locally, nationally, and internationally. She has served for-profit and non-profit organizations and has worked with a diverse range of clients from business leaders, career changers, and students to survivors of domestic violence, those coping with mental and physical illness, as well as those who act as caregivers. Elizabeth‘s goal is to help people pursue their personal and professional best in whatever world they inhabit and in the way most meaningful to them.

Elizabeth is a member of the Association for Psychological Type International (APTi), Twin Cities Association for Psychological Type (TCAPT) and is a founding member of the APTi e-Chapter. Elizabeth has been fortunate to facilitate workshops for local, national, and international type organizations and has an ongoing role as an online educator for APTi whose programs are attended by learners worldwide.

Together Elizabeth and Katherine form HirshWorks, LLC, a management and coaching consultancy devoted to improving the performance of individuals, groups, teams and organizations in their decision making, leadership, team work, facilitation, writing and teaching in order to increase personal and professional satisfaction and development. They are co-authors of Introduction to Type® and Decision Making; and, with Sandra K. Hirsh, the second edition of Introduction to Type® and Teams and second and third editions The MBTI® Teambuilding Program: Leader’s Resource Guide. A standalone MBTI® report based on their decision-making material is due to appear in 2010. In addition, Elizabeth and Katherine also the authors of the Self-Discovery Digest, a blog dedicated to encouraging people to live their best life possible despite the ups and downs of human experience.

Presented by Sharon Richmond

Friday, March 5, 2010

1pm EST to 2:30pm EST
MBTI CE Credits: 1.5

One of the most pressing concerns in organizations of all sizes is the quality of their leadership. The global training and development market is very large (X Billion), and continues to grow, but organizations remain concerned about how prepared for the future their leaders are.

How can you ensure that your (or your clients’) organization will overcome this challenge? Why do leaders continue to be concerned, despite the size of the training and development budgets they fund, and the many employees who attend leadership development workshops? Most important, what can organizations (and you) do differently to change their leadership readiness trajectory?

In this presentation, Sharon will introduce what some executives have called “the world’s simplest leadership model.” She will outline three critical leadership abilities, link them to core aspects of emotional intelligence and personality type, citing proprietary research results, and offer a five step strategy for building a more robust leadership pool.

What you’ll learn:
1)    What’s creating this leadership shortage
2)    The new essence of leadership
3)    Encouraging the emergence of more leaders – and considering personality type
4)    “Leadership Intelligence” – when emotional intelligence meets leadership and personality type
5)    The leaders role in developing leaders

Join this popular presenter, and walk away seeing your own role, and your own leadership potential, in a new light.

Presented by Sharon Richmond

Center for Leadership Development and Research, Stanford Graduate School of Business; Founder, Richmond & Associates Consulting.

Sharon is an internationally known speaker and author on the topics of Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, and Personality Type. Her book Introduction to Type and Leadership, was recently published by CPP, Inc. In addition to consulting privately for more than 20 years, Sharon works with senior faculty at Stanford GSB revising the leadership curriculum for MBA students, and coaches students in several advanced Leadership classes.

Sharon’s value as executive consultant and coach derives from her keen focus on each client’s crucial business objectives. She partners with executives to improve their leadership effectiveness, and to build the structures and culture critical to their organization’s success. For more than 20 years, Sharon has specialized in leadership coaching, building high-performance teams, and creating agile, competitive organizations.

Since beginning her post-MBA career with Touche Ross management consulting, Sharon has worked with leaders at companies spanning the organizational life-cycle, from venture backed start-ups to Fortune 50 companies. Clients have included: Aruba Networks, Cisco Systems, Citigroup, DHL, Epocrates, IMVU, Proteus Biomedical, Roche and Sun Microsystems. Sharon has also consulted with numerous early-stage companies, both privately and through organizations such as Springboard and Asia.

About Steve Myers

Steve Myers has 30 years of experience both as a leader and an independent consultant in team, leadership and organisational culture development. He is first and foremost a practitioner who has worked on projects as diverse as improving relationships between a group of PAs to overcoming cultural barriers to improve cooperation between the leaders of multinational corporations. Steve also has a particular interest in the work of C.G. Jung, having recently completed a Masters in Jungian and Post-Jungian Studies at the University of Essex, and currently undertaking a related PhD (on Mythology for Christians: The Advancement of Consciousness). Steve has also developed a number of psychometric instruments for use in team and leadership development and aimed at improving business performance. Steve is the author of Influencing People Using Myers Briggs. Manuals for the Management Team Roles – indicator and Ideal Team Profile Questionnaire.

The seminar will be presented live on January 26, 2010 at 1:00 p.m. — 2:30 p.m. EST. The seminar is affordably priced at a special reduced price of $79 per attendee.

“At TypeLabs, our goal is to provide our customers with exceptional value through access to on-demand expert content and resources.” said Kris Kiler, President of TypeLabs. “This seminar will be of interest to any type practitioner looking to get deeper into understanding transformational leadership.”

During the last 30 years James MacGregor Burns’ Transformational Leadership has become the most important and widely used leadership model in organisational, political, social and cultural development. Whilst making no assumptions about participants’ prior knowledge of Transformational Leadership, Steve Myers will introduce a distinctive perspective based on C.G. Jung’s analytical psychology, which will make this webinar of interest to all levels of experience. The webinar will begin by introducing and examining the concepts of transformation in Burns’ and Jung’s theories. Steve will show why practitioners need to move beyond psychological type to the alchemy of the unconscious in order to transcend the realms of Transactional and Transformational Leadership. He will discuss the unique insights offered by analytical psychology that suggest the use of strategies complementary to those used in mainstream transformational leadership development. He will include practical examples and discuss implications for practitioners in leadership coaching and development.

Objectives:
- To establish a basic understanding of the concepts of transformation in Burns’ and Jung’s theories
- To position psychological type and Jung’s approach to alchemy within the framework of transactional and transformational leadership
- To explore the process of transformation within analytical psychology and how it affects and is affected by relationships between leader and follower(s)
- To identify practical steps that can be taken to promote transformation in individuals and organisations through leadership development

To sign-up for this online seminar, visit http://www.typepractitionerblueprint.com

Recap:
Title: Transformational Leadership and Analytical Psychology
Presented by: Steve Myers
Date: Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Time: 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. EST
Cost: $79 (Special Price) / $119 Regular Price

About Steve Myers
Steve Myers has 30 years of experience both as a leader and an independent consultant in team, leadership and organisational culture development. He is first and foremost a practitioner who has worked on projects as diverse as improving relationships between a group of PAs to overcoming cultural barriers to improve cooperation between the leaders of multinational corporations. Steve also has a particular interest in the work of C.G. Jung, having recently completed a Masters in Jungian and Post-Jungian Studies at the University of Essex, and currently undertaking a related PhD (on Mythology for Christians: The Advancement of Consciousness). Steve has also developed a number of psychometric instruments for use in team and leadership development and aimed at improving business performance.

This free webinar covered the following topics:

• Why is instrumentation important at all?
• Consistency and standardization
• Measurement reliability as an anchor for consistency and standardization
• Validity or the consistency and standardization of meaning and language.
• What does an instrument do?
• The Proper use of an assessment of personality typology
• Q & A
• PTI/PT-Elements type assessment overview

About Mark Majors
Mark Majors, Ph.d. has over 16 years of experience in psychometrics, Jungian Type Theory, organizational consulting, and counseling psychology. He has been a Research Scientist at Consulting Psychologists Press (CPP), and the Director of Research at the Center for Applications of Psychological Type (CAPT). Mark has published widely in the areas of psychometrics, personality type, and counseling psychology and is the author of the MajorsPTi™. He received his BS and MS degrees in psychology from Iowa State University and his PhD in counseling psychology from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Mark is the author of the recently published book Dichotomies for Dyads: A Handbook for Recognizing and Resolving Personality Conflicts in Relationships.

About Majors PTI™
The Majors PTI™ is a 52-item instrument designed to help facilitate learning valuable information about how you direct your energy, take in information, make decisions and how you orient to your environment. This information reveals how your personality contributes to  many aspects of life including your leadership methods, learning preferences and work/activity preferences.

About Majors PT-Elements™
The Majors PT-Elements is a 127 item questionnaire that helps your clients learn valuable information about their psychological type (common 16 personality types). The report provides results on the dichotomies of Energy acquisition and distribution, Extraversion (external) and Introversion (internal); Perceiving or attending to information, Sensing and iNtuiting; Deciding or making judgments, Thinking and Feeling; Orientation to living, Judgment and Perception. The reported result for the individual’s 16-type indication is given, as well as results on the 32 Elements sub-scales, which illuminate personality differences within the dichotomy or type. Finally, the all NEW “Elements of Personality Formation™” statements are given that help your clients understand some of the complex ways in which they interact with others and respond to situations. A professional report page is provided to help you give constructive feedback regarding all of the reported results.

While most professionals get certified in the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®) instrument and don’t go farther than basic use, the more elite practitioners continue adding to their toolkit to get the most out of using the MBTI® instrument and its vast body of knowledge. Professionals understand the need to take it to the next level and use any means necessary to get the advanced application training that is so critical to your success and the success of your clients.

For many years, great teachers of personality type and type applications have engaged students around the globe through traditional seminar series and in-person sessions. It is truly our pleasure to bring eight of these great experts and their wealth of knowledge to you in DVD format for on-demand learning. It’s the excitement and joy of learning new applications and levels of personality type without the travel and expense!

“As we all know the world is filled with tremendously interesting people, even the ones who are hard to understand. My goal is to help you do your job – to utilize personality type to help people understand themselves and each other.” said the president of TypeLabs, Kris Kiler. “What you share with others about personality type ought to be a fair, accurate and insightful representation of all that personality type has to offer. And when it is, you and your clients will love the results. That, in a nutshell, is why TypeLabs exists.”

Self-understanding in both spoken and written form should not be difficult to understand and teach. But sometimes it can be. Our guarantee and commitment to you is to provide a convenient, cost-effective and high quality learning experience that makes this easy for professionals.

What participants said about the seminars…

“TypeLabs recent offerings of on-line training and professional learning for type practitioners and enthusiasts provided an impressive compilation of expert speakers from type communities around the world! Every one of the 8 programs resulted in some new learning, expanded insights, valuable tools and fresh approaches for more effective application and use of Type with my clients, as well as in both my professional development and personal life. Whether a new leadership model, or references to and suggested approaches for use of and integration with other existing type models and frameworks, this eclectic package provided for a very stimulating and rewarding experience, that I would strongly recommend to others.”
- Clare A. Poe MS, MFT
Consultant and Counselor, CAP C&C, and Dedicated Life-Long Learner (INFJ)

“It is my belief that knowledge plus the practical application of that knowledge equals wisdom. For me, wisdom is the key to success when leading people and helping them accomplish their goals. Kris Kiler’s Type Practitioners Blueprint put me on the road to a deeper knowledge and understanding of Type. Information gathered from the Blueprint was immediately put to work for the benefit of our staff. I would like to think that I will be a better leader tomorrow because of understanding and applying Type knowledge.
—Bill Housley
Director World Outreach, Youth For Christ/USA

This DVD includes the following programs:

• Coaching People Through Type-related Blindspots presented by Pam Fox Rollin

• 8 Keys to Self-Leadership presented by Dario Nardi

• Making Type Training Experiential presented by Hile Rutledge

• Driving Team Performance from the Inside Out presented by Susan Nash

• Using Social Styles to Be a Better Leader presented by Scott Campbell

• Language to Leverage for Creative Thinking presented by Marci Segal

• Psychological Type: Interpretation and Development from Jung to Today presented by Peter Geyer

• Cross Cultural Communication and Psychological Type presented by Daniel Liew

For further information about this DVD series of myers-briggs application seminars, please visit http://www.typepractitionerblueprint.com

Pricing and Availability
You can now order your copy of the Type Practitioner Blueprint on DVD.  When you place your order within the next 24 hours you will receive an additional DVD at no charge plus over $190 worth of Bonus Material. Remember to use this link: http://www.typepractitionerblueprint.com

Adapting to the context involves reading the dynamics of a situation accurately, clarifying your objectives in the situation, and then responding with the leadership behaviors that are most likely to realize those objectives.

Adapting to your people involves shifting your own preferred interaction style behaviors to match the communication style preferences of those with whom you are interacting. Effective leadership requires that you adapt to both the context and your people simultaneously.

In this program, Scott Campbell will show you how to use the Social Styles personality type framework as a tool to better read and respond to both your circumstances and your people.

What you can expect to learn:

• How each style’s preferred decision-making style provides a clue to reading your context.
• How to determine specific leadership objectives when facing a leadership situation.
• The key behaviors that build trust with each of the four social styles.
• How to simultaneously balance adapting to the context while adapting to your people.

Presented by Scott Campbell

Scott is an accomplished speaker, trainer, and author. He is Presiden and Founder of Personalities At Work, a Toronto-based leadership development consortium. His enthusiastic, humorous, and high-energy style, matched by his commitment to thought-provoking, current information and concrete applications, have made him a much-in-demand conference speaker. His work has been featured in Canada’s leading national newspaper, the Globe & Mail.

Scott is the author of 5-D Leadership: Keys Dimensions for Leading in the Real World and the Quick Guide to the Four Temperaments for Peak Performance. He has also written numerous articles for such magazines as Leadership Excellence, The Bulletin of Psychological Type, and Worldwide Association of Business Coaches E-Zine.

In addition to being an author and keynote speaker, Scott is also a master trainer. His ability to customize training to the specific needs of clients and to provide engaging learning activities and insightful performance feedback together create powerful learning experiences for participants.

Scott’s Qualifications & Affiliations

• Masters in Organizational Leadership, Tyndale College
• Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® Qualified
• FIR0-B® Qualified • EQ-I® Qualified
• Personality Dimensions® Level III Master Trainer
• Certified in The Leadership Circle Profile ™ and The Leadership Culture Survey™

Scott’s clients include: Proctor & Gamble, Nike, GE, Toyota, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, IBM, Johnson & Johnson, SunLife Financial, and Kraft Canada, Inc.

Building effective real and virtual team dynamics is a vital factor in 21st century organizational success. This program will show how the theories of temperament and psychological type can be applied to raising team productivity. Participants will learn how to create and diagnose a team profile of temperaments, functions and attitudes, and type. This profile will be used to comprehend team performance (strengths and potential challenges). From this point they will learn how to design a customized strategy for team intervention to improve overall team results.

The most compelling training events with the longest lasting impacts are those that get participants up and moving, invite not only participant voices but their skepticism as well and enable everyone to leave the training ready to move from awareness to action. OKA has long used experiential techniques to bring type training to life crafting—through trial and error—a series of experiments, exercises, activities and action plans that greatly enhance a trainer’s ability to spark interest in type among her clients and to move them both to validate their types and to craft effective next steps.

In this program, Hile Rutledge of OKA will detail a number of training ideas, processing techniques and group exercises designed to expand a trainer’s options in working with groups. Including a review of frequently asked questions in type training and a frank discussion of “what ifs” (the dreaded mistakes and unexpected exercise outputs that can arise when drawing on group participation), this program will provide a number of new training ideas and breathe new life into designs that have gotten stale or too presenter-driven.

Objectives

• Learn techniques to pre-sort experiment groups by reported type preferences to enable participants to explore type in action before results are handed back or type concepts are even discussed
• Explore options of how to actively engage everyone—even participants whose preferences you do not know or who have not even taken a type assessment
• Learn experiential training techniques uniquely tailored to large groups (50 to 80 or even higher) and others geared toward more intimate groups (4-8)
• Learn the logic of timing gro up exercises—when to conduct them, when to process the output data, and how much emphasis to put on them.
• Review effective answers to frequently asked type questions and get the chance to pass along your own challenging questions.

• intimate groups (4-8)
• Learn the logic of timing gro up exercises—when to conduct them, when to process the output data, and how much emphasis to put on them.
• Review effective answers to frequently asked type questions and get the chance to pass along your own challenging questions.

Presented by Hile Rutledge

CEO of Otto Kroeger Associates, author of the MBTI® Introduction Workbook and the Four Temperaments Workbook, and co-author of Reversing Forward, the revised Type Talk At Work, and Generations: Bridging the Gap with Type, Hile Rutledge is an experienced organization development consultant, trainer and public speaker with a background in management, sales, adult education and leadership development. Expert in the use of psychological type and the MBTI® assessment, Hile has worked with both public and private sector clients whose needs range from team building, communications and feedback training, conflict management, strategic planning and other large group events and skills-based workshops.

Hile’s career has taken him into archaeology, public relations, sales management, career counseling and independent organization development consulting. Hile has a BA in Humanities from Hampden-Sydney College and a Master of Science in Organization Development from the American University (AU/NTL). Hile, an INFP, resides with his wife and two sons just outside of Washington DC in the United States.

For more information visit: http://www.typepractitionerblueprint.com