AwarePlus provides Myers-Briggs evaluations

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AwarePlus are one of the few places in the north east of England with practitioners licensed to provide Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) assessments - we can provide both the Step 1 - and the more detailed and subtle Step 2 - assessements. The Step 2 picks up where the Step 1 leaves off, sorting personalities not just into the 16 classifications of the original MBTI but subdviding them into a myriad of shades, providing clients with a clear and profound understanding of who they are and how they think... and how they relate and react to the world around them and the rest of their workmates.


Why should we use Myers-Briggs in my organisation?

People work better with each other if they understand themselves, understand each other and understand how people interact with each other. It's worth considering an MBTI for you and your team if

  • you want to develop your team's cohesion and strengths
  • you need to explore and reduce your team's weaknesses
  • there's some strain on your team and they're reacting to it
  • you have a team in conflict or which needs to grow together
  • you are keen to increase the productivity of your staff

It's important to remember when you're considering MBTI that the individuals involved retain the rights to know their 'type' - they may or may not choose to share it with anyone else (though in our experience most people do!). It's not a tool for judging someone's ability to perform in any given task or role - it's genuinely an attempt to enable people to understand themselves better; understand each other better; communicate with each other better; work together better. Nothing more and nothing less.

That makes Myers-Briggs incredibly powerful and liberating at the same time!

What's involved in MBTI?

A full MBTI comes in three stages with some flexibility. The first stage is administering a questionnaire. This can be done without the practitioner there if necessary (although it's a good idea). The second stage is done by us and OPP (the licensing organisation of MBTI in Europe). The third stage is the key stage for you and your staff - it's the feedback session where clients learn their MBTI 'type' and learn about what it means: this is an interactive process between the people involved and the MBTI practitioner.

The questionnaire stage shouldn't take over an hour; for small and medium sized groups the feedback session should be thought of in terms of a half day. It can make sense to consider building the MBTI feedback session into part of a wider training agenda for the rest of the day if that's useful to you. Obvious examples include teambuilding, change and presentation skills but options are legion!

By the end of the feedback session, people should have a much clearer understanding of themselves and the people around them - and of course there's more to Myers-Briggs for them to get into if they want!

If we want to do Myers-Briggs what should we do?

If you or your staff might benefit from developing a better understanding of how people think and relate to each other, why not drop us a line? (Here are our contact details.) We're sure we'll be able to help!

What is Myers-Briggs?

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a formalisation of the work of Carl Jung - one of the 'founders' of psycho-analysis. It's a way of learning about yourself and the way you think; and of looking at other people and the way they think - so that you and they can better understand yourself and each other. It provides a classification of personality types and looks at the strengths and weaknesses of each.

MBTI is the most researched, validated and widely used psychometric tool in the world with development starting in the early 1940s and still carrying on today. In recent years a more subtle tool - called Myers-Briggs Step 2 - has been developed which takes the original 16-fold classifcation and expands it hugely to give a more "sensitive" look at personalities.

A key Myers-Briggs feature is that there are no 'right', 'wrong' or 'better' personality types: it doesn't measure how much of something you are, it sorts you into what you are - each particular "personality type" is as useful and worthwhile as any other - just with different strengths and weaknesses... and with different ways of interacting with other types!