MBTI Team Workshop/MBTI Individual Assessments

Personality Assessments and Team Training AVAILABLE

What are the norms of how your team communicates, approaches deadlines, makes decisions, or handles conflict? In every team, there exists a variety of personalities with underlying preferences and assumptions about how the world works – or how it should work. With the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), the most widely used personality assessment of its kind, you have a tool to expand your own self-knowledge and catalyze team communication, so that you can all land on the same page.

Myers-Briggs provides an impartial, neutral framework for discussing individual differences in the workplace. It focuses on underlying preferences, rather than situational or habitual behaviors;  as a result, understanding your Myers-Briggs type can serve as a fundamental building block in the broader framework of professional development and self-assessment tools.

The NIH Training Center (NIHTC) is offering an open-enrollment Myers-Briggs Level 1 training session: Boost Your Interpersonal Skills with MBTI is open for registration now, for individuals and small groups seeking to explore this next step of self-awareness. Participants will accomplish the following:

Understand the appropriate purposes and limitations of using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)

Distinguish between the four preference dichotomies within the MBTI

Understand the impact of MBTI preferences on interpersonal dynamics

Learn how to leverage MBTI knowledge to "get the best" out of interpersonal office relationships

Contextualize MBTI within the broader Five-Factor Model of personality and other contemporary assessments

In addition, NIHTC continues to deliver team-based Myers-Briggs workshops on a tailored basis to offices across NIH. In these sessions, intact teams can explore the impact of MBTI preferences on their team opportunities and challenges, discussing and establishing norms for how they currently operate and how they’d like to operate in the future. MBTI team-building sessions begin with Step I for those relatively new to MBTI, or those already very familiar with the MBTI can explore the more in-depth MBTI Step II assessment.

For more information on classes and assessments, visit https://hr.nih.gov/training-center/courses/nih-myers-briggs-training. For customized team-based Myers-Briggs sessions, contact us at 301-496-6211 or NIHTrainingCenter@nih.gov.