AMA's Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®) Certification Program

Apply the MBTI tool to empower employees, enhance team productivity, and reduce conflict. AMA's newly updated MBTI program is a highly interactive, four-day workshop that focuses on the key MBTI applications of team building, leadership, and individual development. It features a hands-on, practical approach that prepares you to professionally and ethically administer and interpret the MBTI instrument immediately upon your return to work.

Unlike earlier versions of the program, this seminar also includes training in MBTI Step II, which provides a more richly textured picture of type and behavior using 20 additional facets. Step II shows how each person expresses their type uniquely and individually.

Successful completion of this course qualifies you to administer the MBTI instrument. All the knowledge you need to successfully complete the certification exam is covered in the pre-work, workshop lectures, and handouts. To help you apply the MBTI instrument, you'll receive interactive support tools, including a video featuring an MBTI expert who provides tips for using the MBTI instrument in the typical workplace situations/scenarios you will likely encounter.

This course boasts a 97% pass rate! However, in the unlikely event that you do not pass the exam, your AMA course leader will provide a short-answer retake exam.

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Certification:

Successful completion of this course qualifies you to administer the MBTI instrument.

What You Will Learn

• Improve employee communication skills and interactions using the MBTI tool
• Gain greater understanding of your own and others' personality preferences
• Understand type theory and key MBTI applications
• Lessen test anxiety, track your progress, and self-correct with daily exams
• Effective ways to introduce type to teams to improve performance
• Get immediate feedback on your professional interpretation skills with role-play exercises
• Receive an MBTI toolkit and PowerPoint® template for presenting type to teams and senior management

Audience

HR professionals, training and OD specialists, career counselors, line managers, and others responsible for developing human capital

Prerequistes

10 hours of reading and online review

Course Outline

1. Introducing Type to Teams and Groups

• Administering the instrument
• The MBTI dichotomies
• Verifying type
• Using the Presenting Type in Organizations presentation
• Activities to use with teams

2. Using the MBTI Assessment

• Differences between trait and type instruments
• Appropriate and ethical use of the tool
• Contracting to use the instrument
• Psychometric aspects of the instrument

3. Using the MBTI Instrument with Individuals

• Administering and scoring the instrument and interpreting results
• Working with clients and interpreting results

4. Using the MBTI Instrument for Individual and Leadership Development

• Type dynamics: how the four preferences form a dynamic personality pattern
• Type development: the tasks of different stages of life
• Recognizing type and stress interactions
• Applying type to leadership styles
• Using type dynamics and development with clients

5. Using the MBTI Step II Instrument and Interpretive Report

• Developmental and psychometric aspects of the Step II instrument
• The 20 Step II facets
• Interpreting with clients
• Case studies of Step II results

Course Labs