An overview of using the MBTI in Leadership Development and Team Building. This is the first in a series of workshops that our organization uses to help develop agricultural companies and organizations.

1. Nebraska Pork – Session 1
Leadership and Teams
Brent Green – Ag TeamBuild

2.  Getting
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to know you…
Tell us 2 important things about yourself

3.  Getting

to know you…
Tell us 2 important things about the person beside you

4. Who Am I??
Adventurer
Relationship-Focused
Need Change Regularly
Risk-Taker
And…I’m a
Proud Father

5. Nebraska Pork Mentor Program
Leadership Development
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Identify individual personality
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Identify strengths associated with your
personality

Get 360 feedback on your personality
and skills

Put together plans to develop your
best characteristics even more

See how individual strengths and
talents can improve a team

Identify some of the best
characteristics of your team/s

Learn to work better with people
different than you
Identify your best skills

Team Development

6. Today’s Objectives
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Discuss Overview of ‘Leadership’ and ‘Teams’
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Overview ’Personality’
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Conduct a Personality ‘Self-Type’ Process
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Review Results of Your Online Assessment

7. What is Leadership??

8. How we will define it…
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Identifying your best characteristics……..
And using them for good in everyday life
You can be a leader:
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In your family
In work groups
On student teams
In this group

9. Leadership does not mean….
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Bossing people around 

10. What makes a strong team?
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Group Discussion…..

11. Ingredients of a Strong Team
Shared
Vision,
Felt Deeply
Emotionally
Bonded
Strengths
Utlilized
Strong
Teams
Reference: Kellogg Business School

12. How We Help Strengthen Teams
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Identify individual personality and leadership characteristics
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Identify team personality
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See if your self perceptions match others’ perceptions of you
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Develop a plan to use your best qualities

13. How Ag TeamBuild Helps….
Shared
Vision,
Felt Deeply
Management
Team
Emotionally
Bonded
Ag TeamBuild
Strengths
Utlilized
Ag TeamBuild
Strong
Teams

14. What is Personality??
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Group Discussion…….

15. What is Personality???

16. Individual Exercise
What are some key
attributes of your
personality type?
Write down 3

17. Myers-Briggs Type
Indicator
(MBTI)

18. MBTI Developed by
Katharine C. Briggs
and
Isabel Briggs Myers
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FOR
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Americans in World War II
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Tool for helping people discover their gifts and how to use them best

19. Based on Psychological Theory
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….of Scientist Carl Jung
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Psychological ‘Type’
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Personality ‘type’ or MBTI ‘type’ comes from his work

20. MBTI
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70 years of research

Most used personality assessment in the world

21. Dimensions of MBTI
Extraversion
Sensing
– Intuition
Thinking
Judging
- Introversion
- Feeling
- Perceiving

22. MBTI is used for
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Self-Awareness
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Leadership Development
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Career Development
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Conflict Management
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Team-Building

23. MBTI
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Can help you to identify some of your key
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Tendencies
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Preferences
Characteristics
But not all of them…..

24. Extraversion - Introversion
Preference for
Getting Energy
Extraversion – Outside Self – Others
Introversion – Inside Self - Solitude

25. Key Descriptors
E
 Extraversion
Active
 Outward
 Sociable
 People
 Many
 Expressive
 Breadth

I
 Introversion
Reflective
 Inward
 Reserved
 Privacy
 Few
 Quiet
 Depth


26. Sensing - Intuitive
Preference for
Taking in Information
Sensing – Takes in Data from the 5 Senses
Intuitive – Takes in Data from a “sixth sense”

27. Key Descriptors
S
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Sensing
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
Details
Present
Practical
Facts
Directions
Repetition
Enjoyment
Perspiration
Literal
N
•
Intuition
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
Patterns
Future
Imaginative
Innovations
Hunches
Variety
Anticipation
Inspiration
Figurative

28. Thinking - Feeling
Preference for
Making Decisions
Thinker – Logical, Structured, Objective
Feeler – Personal, Values-Oriented

29. Key Descriptors
T
Thinking
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•
•
•
•
•
•
•
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Head
Objective
Justice
Cool
Impersonal
Critique
Analyze
Precise
Principles
F
Feeling
•
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•
•
•
•
•
•
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Heart
Subjective
Harmony
Caring
Personal
Appreciate
Empathize
Persuasive
Values

30. Judging - Perceiving
Preference for
Living and Lifestyle Choices
Judging – Planned Living, Organized Life
Perceiving – Spontaneous and Flexible

31. Key Descriptors
J
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Judging
•
•
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•
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•
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Organized
Structure
Control
Decisive
Deliberate
Closure
Plan
Deadlines
Productive
•
P
Perceiving
•
•
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Flexible
Flow
Experience
Curious
Spontaneous
Openness
Wait
Discoveries
Receptive

32. Self-Type

33. Your Type
4 letter type
One of 16 possible combinations
ISFJ
INFJ
INTJ
ISTP
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ISTJ
ISFP
INFP
INTP
ESTP
ESFJ
ENFP
ENTP
ESTJ
ESFJ
ENFJ
ENTJ

34. Share your ‘Type’

35. Things that affect results
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Past experience

Expectations
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Feelings about this type of instrument
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Clarifications on theory
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Not believing that all types good
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Would these or any other things affect/bias your results??

36. Review
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All types are good
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We are not promoting one type as
better than another
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All types have potential blind spots
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All types add value to an
organization

37. Type Distribution of the
Representative Sample
ISTJ
13.8%
1.5%
2.1%
ISFP
INFP
INTP
5.4%
8.8%
4.4%
3.3%
ESTP
ESFP
ENFP
ENTP
4.3%
8.5%
8.1%
3.2%
ESTJ
ESFJ
ENFJ
ENTJ
8.7%
Information from CPP, Inc
INTJ
ISTP
=
S
T
J
INFJ
11.6%
E
ISFJ
12.3%
2.5%
1.8%
49% I
= 73%
= 40%
= 54%
=
N
F
P
51%
=
=
=
27%
60%
46%

38. Type

Reported Type

39. Getting Along with Different
‘Types’

40. Practical Exercises
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Extraversion vs Introversion
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Sensing vs Intuitive
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Thinking vs Feeling
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Judging vs Perceiving

41. All Types have Strengths
and Positive Attributes
Focus on the positive

42. Group Exercises
Extraversion
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All Extraverts together

Brainstorm
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Key ways to communicate with
an introvert
Introversion

All Introverts together

Brainstorm

Key ways to communicate with
an extravert

43. Group Exercises
Thinking
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All Thinkers together

Brainstorm
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How would set up this room
tomorrow to make it most
functional for everyone?
Feeling

All Feelers together

Brainstorm

How would set up this room
tomorrow to make it most
functional for everyone?

44. Group Exercises
Judging

All Judgers together

Brainstorm
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Describe your ideal weekend
Perceiving

All Perceivers together

Brainstorm

Describe your ideal weekend

45. Where to from here?
Leadership Development

Identify individual personality

Identify strengths associated with your
personality

Get 360 feedback on your personality
and skills

Put together plans to develop your
best characteristics even more

See how individual strengths and
talents can improve a team

Identify some of the best
characteristics of your team/s

Learn to work better with people
different than you
Identify your best skills

Team Development

46. For next time…
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Personality 360
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Does your perception match your friends/colleagues perceptions of yourself??
Very small amount of fun homework 