A successful organisation is made up of people with different working styles that complement each other.

Understanding how your people work, and helping them understand how their personal style interacts with that of their colleagues, is an essential building block of creating a dynamic team.

With more than 3.5 million questionnaires completed worldwide every year and more than 13,000 qualified users in Europe and based on over 50 years of research and development, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) questionnaire is the most widely used personality questionnaire in the world.

The MBTI® instrument is an exceptionally versatile instrument that provides individuals and teams with a powerful understanding of their own and others' personality styles.

The MBTI Step I instrument represents the first step towards understanding the power of 'Type' as a framework and a common language for describing why we interact with the world and one another in different ways. MBTI Step II deepens and broadens this understanding, enabling practitioners to add nuance and perspective to interpretations and interventions.

MBTI Step I

The MBTI Step I instrument is a versatile tool, which provides individuals and teams with a powerful understanding of their own and others' personality style. By understanding the differences between personality types, groups and individuals are able to work together more effectively, improving communication and reducing conflict.

The MBTI Step I can be used in one-to-one and group settings and applied to:

• Individual development - understand your preferred working style and how to develop this to be more effective in a range of situations.
• Management and leadership development - help managers and leaders to appreciate the impact of their personal style on others, and identify their strengths and any areas that they may need to develop to become more effective. Works extremely well as part of an executive coaching programme.
• Teambuilding and development - increase awareness of the team's working style and, as a result, improve team communication, enhance problem-solving, encourage appreciation of diversity and resolve conflict.
• Organisational change - understand why people react differently to change and how to support them through the process.
• Improving communication - help people to understand how to communicate effectively with different people and develop influencing and persuading skills.
• Education and career counselling - identify learning styles and motivations, improve teaching and training methods and provide career guidance.
• Relationship counselling - improve the quality of relationships and interactions by understanding and valuing differences.

MBTI Step II

The MBTI Step II instrument builds on the insights provided by Step I, introducing a unique and complex understanding of personality, which enables clients to explore a multiplicity of individual variations within type.

Particularly effective in leadership development and executive coaching, the MBTI Step II instrument breaks down each dimension of the Step I types into five facets, giving individuals a more detailed appreciation of their type. This approach can highlight how people of the same Step I type can be different, and explore similarities between people with contrasting Step I preferences.

The MBTI Step II instrument can be used for:

• Individual and team development – understand more about preferred working style and identify how to develop this to be more effective.
• Teambuilding and development – increase awareness of the team’s working style and, as a result, improve team communication, problem-solving and decision-making, encourage appreciation of diversity and resolve conflict.
• Organisational change – understand why people react differently to change and how to support them through the process.
• Improving communication – help people to understand how to communicate effectively with different people and develop influencing and persuading skills.