FastEDUCATION™ Seminar

Seminar: Project Teams and Personalities

Duration: 3 hours

Expected Audience:  Targeted for project sponsors, leaders, and performers, this session focuses on the critical soft skills of managing a group of people, and includes the how to understand and approach different personality types in different ways, for the best teamwork results.

Objectives:

• Know the basics of team formation and operation
• Understand the basics of motivation, leadership, and management
• Exposure to a set of personality models
• Exploring one of the models:  Myers-Briggs Personality Type Indicator (MBTI)
• Understanding your MBTI results and how to use them in teams

Format:    Presentation / discussion / and interaction in groups of 10-20. Pre-work required. 

Outline:

• Introduction
• Outline review
• Materials Tour
• Participant's experiences in teams
• Fundamentals of Teamwork
• Basic team model 
• Motivation
• Situational Leadership
• Personality Model Survey
• Process Communication Model
• FIRO-B
• Neuro-Linguistic Programming
• Enneagram
• Keirsey Temperament Sorter
• MBTI
• Personality Model Details:  Myers-Briggs Personality Type Indicator 
• Dimensions and meanings
• Recognizing and working with people of other types
• Summary & Wrap-up

Seminar Materials:

• Pre-work
• Bring results of Web-based MBTI (~70 questions)
• Presentation matter
• Seminar Notebook
• “Jekyll or Hyde:  Understanding the Personalities of Teams”