A Performance Management Strategy
for Human Resources Using MBTI

As a Human Resources professional, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator can be one of the most useful tools available in the world today for developing the people in your organization.  That's because MBTI deals with the most fundamental aspect of HR--the human element.

Moving People Forward Productively Is the Greatest
Profit Enhancer/Cost Saver for Any Organization

It's difficult for even the most skilled observer  to interpret what's going on around us in the human arena.  Human beings, both as individual performers and as teams, can be baffling.  Not only do people pull in different directions from the stated goal, they seem at times to violate their own best interests.

The MBTI helps take these human factors, mitigate them, and inform and motivate people to move forward together.  

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
Can Be a Defining Moment for Employee Performance

Reading the MBTI report and getting a debriefing from a person who truly understands MBTI, people, and organizations can be what psychology calls "a defining moment."  That is a moment in time where you understand yourself and how you fit into the world in a new way.  After that moment, you understand, see, and know things in a different way.  It's a moment that doesn't go away.  You keep building on it for the rest of your life. 

As a Human Resources Professional,
You Can Experience the MBTI Free with a Debriefing from a Professional

Any tool isn't really useful until you've used it successfully yourself.  This is true of the MBTI.  Some have taken the MBTI and were "underwhelmed"  because it was so poorly explained and applied that it seem marginally useful.

If you haven't had a great experience with the MBTI as an HR professional, let us introduce you to the experience free of charge.  Even if you've done it before, it's worth doing again because of the new reports and our free program for professionals. 

Click on "Take the MBTI Free" and we'll make it possible to take the MBTI Step II free of change and receive a free 30-minute telephone debriefing from a qualified MBTI professional.   It's an initial $350 value and will be invaluable to you for the rest of your professional life.  Why are we doing this?  First of all it's our mission and passion.  Secondly, everyone who receives our MBTI debriefing becomes an advocate for MBTI initiatives in their organizations. 

The MBTI Can Be What Makes You Outstanding with People and Teams

MBTI produces outstanding and lasting results with individuals and teams.  Why is this true?  Because MBTI begins at the point we're all most interested in:  ourselves.  We are fascinated to find out new things about ourselves and how we relate to other people.  MBTI creates a whole "language" in an organization that forms the basis for how people approach interpersonal relationships and team issues.  It frames their diverse ways of thinking and working in a new, positive and exciting way. 

You Can Significantly Boost Employee Performance with MBTI--a Training Model that Works

You can significantly boost employee performance with the strategic use of MBTI programs.    Organizational resources are always scarce and the model of the "corporate university," which throws training at everyone, is out of date and ineffective.   In most cases people who say they hate training should not be subjected to it.  Training is only effective with people who have specific goals that can be achieved.

Developing Key Teams Using MBTI Team Techniques.   Teams that have missions critical to the organization and are hemorrhaging time, money, and ill will must be fixed for organizational survival.  What if an organization had a fleet of delivery trucks with engines that burst into flames without warning?  There would be no limit to the company resources that would be spent to fix the problem.

Yet the reason we fix fleets and other essential equipment is that we have people who know how to fix them.  Organizations don't know how to fix team problems.  There are many people and organizations who claim to develop or fix teams, but they often make problems worse or waste company time and money without achieving results.

The following is a model for MBTI teambuilding success:

1.  Administer MBTI to the team leader and let them experience it.  If the team leader achieves self-understanding, then we can move on to the team.

2.  Administer the MBTI to each team member online and send them their report by email.  The Introverts want a document in their hands to study.  The Extroverts will talk about the results with their friends.

3.  Do a telephone interview with each member of the team where a professional MBTI debriefer explains the participant's type and its implications for himself or herself and the team.

4.  During the telephone interview the debriefer, in addition to explaining the participant's MBTI Type, interviews the participant about the team--the mission and goals of the team, the current status of the project, team interactions, and other aspects of the team.

5.  Plan and schedule an MBTI seminar.  We suggest an entire business day.  This program is one of the most enjoyable and enlightening experiences a person can have.  It must be highly interactive.  At the end of the day, the team should have explored a situational analysis of the team status, goals going forward, and team agreements on how they will work together.

6.  The MBTI presenter should be prepared to answer follow-up questions for several weeks.

Using this approach, team leaders and those who supervise them report amazing results from teams that barely functioned.  Members of the team have experienced an enjoyablly empowering experience that is useful to them for the rest of their lives.

Executive Coaching for Fast Trackers/Executives with Issues.  We often find that the most talented executives have performance and interpersonal issues that jeopardize their professional success.  They are often brilliant, well educated and outcome-oriented.  Yet small issues--from the ability to read groups to personal image--limit their value to an organization and threaten their own career path.

Again, MBTI can be a useful tool.   We use the following steps.

Seeing Ourselves as Others See Us Using MBTI.  We find that one of the most difficult challenges people face is learning to see themselves as others see them.  We see ourselves as educated, experienced, skillful, and passionate about achieving our goals.  It's truly disheartening that people often don't appreciate our best.   Intelligent people have had careers derailed because of some personal habit they never even realized they had.

There are many assessments that function like a videotape after the football game, and the place to begin is with MBTI.  Once the participant gets a real picture of how he or she comes across, they are able to change habits and approaches that have held them back for a lifetime.