MBTI Personality Assessment Certification Training

Why Select this Training Course?

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) assessment is today’s most popular and trusted personality assessment tool. It is utilised by most Fortune 500 companies and other organisations around the globe to manage their personnel. It is a psychometric tool that assists individuals in understanding their personality better and also improves their judgement or decision-making.

The Rcademy MBTI Personality Assessment Certification Training will provide attendees with deep knowledge and understanding about the various aspects of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator instrument. They will also learn the different personality types, key characteristics of their personality and those of others. The course will help to improve their self-awareness by assisting them in recognising their strengths and weaknesses and how to improve on them. The general knowledge and understanding offered by the course will provide participants with a deep understanding of human psychology and how to manage any situation, thereby becoming better persons and professionals.

What is the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator?

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is an effective assessment tool for determining personality types and their resultant traits and preferences. It is valuable within professional environments and for self-reflection. It is a personality typology that uses questionnaires to extract data about an individual to offer predictions. The data determines the individual’s natural preferences on how they manage situations. This is premised on the assumption that people simplify significant drivers of behaviour into four pairs of opposing traits, making a total of eight.

These traits that individuals prefer help in defining them as follows:

1. Thinking versus feeling
2. Introversion versus extroversion
3. Judging versus perceiving
4. Sensing versus intuition

What are the Pros and Cons of the MBTI Test?

The MBTI test offers several benefits not found in other psychological testing tools. Its simplicity and ease of usage make it accessible to people at various stages of life. It provides a straightforward language for evaluating personality and building complex psychological concepts that are easily understandable to the average person. Additionally, the MBTI test helps to foster empathy and self-awareness in participants. By recognising the various personality types, participants can learn about their strengths, potential growth areas, preferences and weaknesses. This enables them to make better decisions, lead better lives and have better relationships.

Despite its many merits, the MBTI test has certain downsides. Critics argue that the test’s categories oversimplify the complex nature of human personality. For instance, labelling a person as an extrovert or introvert ignores the reality that individuals can showcase both traits based on their situation. Additionally, the test creates potential stereotyping. Labelling individuals based on their Myers-Briggs Type Indicator type can create typecasting, limiting others’ perceptions of them. This can impede growth and lead to discrimination, in certain situations.

Who Should Attend?

The following individuals should partake in the Rcademy MBTI Personality Assessment Certification Training course:

• Human resources managers responsible for managing and directing the administrative functions in an organisation.
• Managerscharged with supervising and coordinating the day-to-day operations of an organisation.
• Supervisors and team leaders responsible for monitoring team members’ progress and mentoring team members.
• Learning and development managers
• Directors
• Chief executive officerstasked with making significant corporate decisions, supervising the operations and resources of a firm, and serving as the link between the board and corporate functions.
• Coaches responsible for overseeing the mental and psychological needs of personnel assigned to their care.
• Students interested in learning about the MBIT test and job applications.
• Every other person interested in gaining a deeper understanding of human psychology.

What are the Course Objectives?

The Rcademy MBTI Personality Assessment Certification Training is designed to help participants in achieving the following outcomes:

• Understand the history and evolution of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator psychological instrument
• Recognise the impacts of Carl Jung’s psychological type theory of personality
• Learn how to create and evaluate team-type table
• Understand how to explore the MBTI 4 preference pairs
• Understand the meaning of the term “preference” in psychological evaluations
• Gain deeper insight into their personality types and how to become better persons and professionals
• Understand and utilise the necessary learning styles suitable to their personality types
• Learn how to manage other peoples’ personality by better predicting them
• Learn how to align their interests, job roles, and personalities, leading to job satisfaction and a healthy life
• Know their MBTI types and their attributes

How will this Course be Presented? 

This course is participant-oriented and designed to meet participants’ expectations and improve their knowledge and skills on the subject matter. Practical strategies are employed to ensure constant and active learning of participants. Seasoned professionals teach this course with in-depth

knowledge and expertise on the subject matter. Also, the course is drawn from in-depth, extensive, and relevant research on the subject matter.

The Rcademy MBTI Personality Assessment Certification Training includes practical and theoretical learning aids by providing participants with lecture notes, slides, video presentations, and mock and case studies. Candidates will partake in presentations, quizzes, seminar workshops, and constant feedback on the lessons taught to gauge their satisfaction.

What are the Topics Covered in this Course? 

Module 1: History and Evolution of MBTI Tool

• Background and development of the MBTI test instrument
• Key concepts connected to MBTI
• Popular users of the MBTI assessment tool around the globe
• Key persons connected to the history of the MBTI tool
• Basic details of the MBTI instrument
• Importance of personality and self-awareness

Module 2: Understanding the Four MBTI Dichotomies

• Judging (J) versus Perceiving (P)
• Sensing (S) versus Intuition (N)
• Extraversion (E) versus Introversion (I)
• Thinking (T) versus Feeling (F)
• Comparison of the four preference pairs

Module 3: Designing and Evaluating Team Type Table

• The process of designing a team-type table
• Attitudes and orientations of energy (Rows)
• Function pairs (Columns)
• Interpretation and application of various preference combinations
• Preference-based questions and behavioural differences

Module 4: The MBTI Feedback Process

• The importance of feedback
• Best practices for feedback
• Practical considerations to address when dealing with respondents
• Helping ensure respondents better understand the 16 types
• Characteristics of preference pairs

Module 5: Carl Jung’s Psychological Type Theory of Personality

• The principles guiding the theory
• Mental processes
• Attitudes to orientation (the “inborn tendencies)
• Carl Jung’s eight patterns of mental activity
• The Jung-Myers theory of type
• Jung’s model of type development
• Type dynamics and stress

Module 6: Applications of Type Dynamics

• Type dynamics reinforcement
• Figuring out type dynamics
• The role of the judging-perceiving preference pair in type dynamics and the value of balance
• The connection between type dynamics and professional and personal development applications
• Influence of type dynamics on stress reactions
• A dynamic picture of personality
• Details of dominant functions
• Hierarchy of the functions
• 3-step process to decode type dynamics
• Role of J-P dichotomy in type dynamics

Module 7: The MBTI Personality Types

• Overview of the 16 personality types
• Understanding the “reported type”
• Arriving at the “best-fit type”
• Self-estimation of personality type

Module 8: Ethical Applications of the MBTI Tool

• Administering the MBTI assessment
• Utilising the MBTI instrument in organisation
• Ethical considerations of usage
• The role of the MBTI practitioner in the administration process
• Determining appropriate administration procedures for the MBTI
• Ethical best practices

Module 9: Applying the MBTI Framework

• Exploring the MBTI-type table
• Utilising the type table for team development applications
• Using type to execute leadership development, conflict resolution, and decision-making
• Define and explain key process pairs, orientations and preference combinations

Module 10: MBTI in the Workplace

• Importance of the MBTI assessment in the workplace
• Human resource management and MBTI
• Discovering the perfect MBTI for the workplace
• MBTI and management
• MBTI for leaders and managers
• Creating a powerful team with MBTI