training calendar
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic has written a nice and tight defense of emotional intelligence as a foundation to coaching and training. He highlights the importance of getting good EQ data to feed an effective coaching or training effort. The EQ-i (and its sister tool the EQ360) are beautifully designed
Blog
Myers-Briggs: Over Assessment Danger?
Can someone take the MBTI Assessment too many times? In terms of taking assessments too often, there is no harm in it, but the frequency of taking any given assessment draws the validity of subsequent takings into question--especially if there is feedback before the later times in which someone
Exploring Type Dichotomies
What are some good “question areas” to use when exploring each of the 4 Type dichotomies? After running several thousand Type workshops myself, here are the areas I find most fruitful to explore: S/N: Describe Time T/F: Define Conflict and your reaction to it E/I: What elements of a party do you
How do you coax Extraversion from an Introvert?
Remember from Type Dynamics that each of one of us either extraverts our Judging (T or F) function or our Perceiving (S or N) function—and we introvert the other of these functions. The last letter of your Type (J or P) indicates which function you extravert. This is therefore the function the
The Destroyer Gets a Bum Rap
In my work with Narrative Intelligence, whenever I work with the Archetypes from the PMAI (Pearson Marr Archetype Indicator) , one archetype consistently gets the lowest score: The Destroyer. Often symbolized by death and destruction, the Destroyer’s story is the narrative of closure, termination,