Team-building: use MBTI to promote team-cohesion

Goals

• Discover MBTI and understand how it works
• Know yourself better: discover your individual profile and that of the team
• Better understand the different ways of working and illustrate their complementarity.
• Work together in a fun way to identify an action plan towards greater cohesion and smooth interactions.

Target audience

Any manager wishing to involve the members of his team in a process of discovery of themselves and others, differences and complementarities, to strengthen cohesion and team spirit.

Prerequisite

MBTI questionnaire to be completed by the team members

Contents

Day 1

Introduction

• Review of the questionnaire
• Presentation of the MBTI personality analysis tool
• MBTI type validation procedure
• Explanation of the concepts of dimension and preference/non-preference
• Ethical precautions

The 4 dimensions and 8 MBTI preferences

• My interactions with the outside world, how I recharge my batteries: extraversion (E) - introversion (I)
• How I collect information and data I rely on: sensation (S) - intuition (N)
• How I make my decisions: thinking (T) - feeling (F)
• How I choose to organise myself: judgment (J) - perception (P)

Discovering and validating your profile: a 3-step process

• The group of participants discovers, for each dimension and in a playful way, the 2 corresponding preferences. Each person then begins, through the explanations provided by the trainer practitioner and exchanges with the group, to recognise a preference.
• He/she is then given his/her "apparent" preference, which is the result of the questionnaire completed before the training.
• On this basis, he/she validates his/her preference

This approach, repeated for each dimension, allows each person to identify and validate their MBTI profile, which is a combination of his/her 4 preferences.

Day 2

Exploration of the MBTI profile of the team and team-building activities

• Discover the MBTI profile of the team
• Exchanges on the team's strengths and development paths
• Highlight the team's functioning and complementarities in the areas chosen by the team and its manager. For example:
  • Communication
  • Conflict management
  • Approach to change
  • Project management
  • Decision making...
• Setting up a team action plan to improve collaboration.