Public courses
Achieving Better Communication
A 2,5 h/week over 5 weeks course on how to improve your communication skills in groups or individually through different facilitative and participatory methods: focused discussions, coaching techniques and structured conversations. Learn how to resolve conflicts through active listening, coaching and discussion.
The methods include:
- The basic discussion method (ORID)
- Coaching
- Open discussion
- Dealing with difficult participants in groups
- Active listening
- Cultural awareness in communication
Next course: Spring 2012
Personality differences a benefit or just difficult? Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
We do not live alone or work in isolation. Knowing your personality type may help you to understand yourself better as well as the people around you. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is designed to identify each person's personality type and to make it understandable and useful in everyday life. The basis for the indicator is Jung's psychological types.
The course is a 3,5 hour group session and approximately one week before the course, you will receive a questionnaire by e-mail (this will take 20-30 minutes to complete).
During the course, your MBTI profile will be identified and your will start to understand and appreciate the differences in personality types.
Taking the MBTI inventory and receiving feedback will:
- help you identify your unique gifts,
- enhance understanding of yourself: motivations, strengths, potential areas for growth and
- help you appreciate people who differs from you
Understanding your MBTI type is self-affirming and encourages cooperation with others.
Next course: Winter 2011/12
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Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) - Individual feedback
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is a self-report questionnaire designed to make Jung's psychological types understandable and useful in everyday life. Receive the questionnaire by e-mail (it will take 20-30 minutes to complete this). Approximately one week later have1-1, 5 hour one-one feedback to identify your Best-fit-type.
Taking the MBTI inventory and receiving feedback will:
- help you identify your unique gifts,
- enhance understanding of yourself: motivations, strengths, potential areas for growth and
- help you appreciate people who differs from you
Understanding your MBTI type is self-affirming and encourages cooperation with others.
Next course: Ongoing by appointment.
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How personality type & culture impact each other - Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is the most widely used personality type questionnaire worldwide and a favorite among HR professionals. Knowing your type helps you understand yourself and how you interact and communicate with others. The MBTI questionnaire has been translated into many languages and adapted to many cultural contexts. It has been found that all types exist in all countries, but extroverts/ introverts don't look the same around the world. In other words, introverts in the USA will look differently to those in Finland.
Before the course you will recieve the MBTI self-report questionnaire by Email. Filling in the questionnaire will take approx. 20 - 30 min.
During the Feedback session on Day 1 (3,5 hours) we will:
- provide an introduction to MBTI - the theory behind it
- give some practical examples of how personality types affect our everyday lives
- participants will have a chance to guess their typology results and finally the questionnaire results will be presented - respecting confidentiality.
During the Feedback session on Day 2 (3,5 hours) the focus will be on the influence of culture on personality type. We will:
- provide theoretical context information on
- Nature - Nurture debate - Are personality types universal or culture specific?
- Globalization: Individualistic versus collectivisitic societies and
- practical applications on
- Fit / Clash between Personality Type and Culture
- Subtle influence of Personality Type and Culture on behaviour.
If we share commonalities with our culture of origin and/or host culture, we encounter less resistance, less stress; life just seems to run smoother. The contrary is also true; the more different your personality and culture types are, the more you may struggle to feel accepted or appreciated for your unique perspective.
Taking the MBTI inventory and receiving feedback will:
- Enhance your understanding of yourself: your preferred way of doing things
- Help you appreciate people who differ from you within your own and other cultures
- Show ways to avoid conflict and improve conflict resolution.
Understanding your MBTI type is self-affirming and encourages cooperation with others.
Next course: Autumn 2012
Facilitation Techniques
Learn to encourage the best responses from each staff member to achieve tangible added-value results from your teams. This method teaches 2 practical methods to enhance co-operation, creativity and improve output. A two - day course is offered on setting targets and ensuring timely results which is especially useful in situations where workplace conflicts are impeding progress.
Next course: Autumn 2012
Action Planning
This course introduces a structured, participatory process to enable the successful implementation of a group project or event. The Action Planning method builds on methods from Facilitation Techniques to engage all members of a team effectively. However, Facilitation Technique is not a pre-requisite. The method introduced in this course is suitable for planning short to medium-term projects, or completing projects which have stalled.
Next course: Autumn 2012
