Team effectiveness

Trust, commitment, and drive to achieve a common goal are at the heart of successful team functioning. Without these intangible qualities, teamwork will happen occasionally, if at all. With these, team members have the inspiration to work together in a meaningful way.

Trust, commitment, and common goals do not, however, guarantee the achievement of teamwork. Teambuilding with the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator provides a deep and broad basis for understanding others and practical tools for negotiating and compromising differences. With the mastery of these tools, people who work together and depend on each other have a powerful way to creatively and constructively use their differences, to work at their best, to justify the trust and commitment they have to each other, and to achieve their common goals.

Goals for team building using the Myers Briggs Type Indicator® instrument include:
	Encouraging each team member to appreciate and value his or her own individual strengths and contributions.
	Developing clear recognition of individual differences within the team membership.
	Acknowledge that these differences are important and necessary to the team's achievement of its goals.
	Creating a team identity made up of those individual contributions.
	Focusing on the constructive use of differences!

Working together more effectively

Team building sessions typically focus on a core team consisting of individuals who must work together effectively to achieve their objectives. We have also facilitated team building sessions with “extended teams” – groups from 50 – 250 who are responsible for various parts of a project.

Topics and approaches vary depending on group size and identified needs. Typical components include the following:

Understanding differences in work styles
Introduction to Type and return of MBTI® results
Applying type to increase self-understanding
Negotiating differences to work together more effectively
Analyzing a team with type
Identifying internal dynamics, strengths, potential problem areas
Assessing external effectiveness of team
Creating action plans for improving team functioning
Tools for integrating type into everyday work together