NEWSLETTER FROM RMAPT (cont.)

TOOLS & TECHNIQUES

MBTI Exercise You Can Use

Directions:

1) Form two type-alike groups:  Feeling and Thinking.   

2) In their type-alike groups, ask them to discuss  "When do you say, 'I'm sorry'?" 

3) Have each group report to the large group a summary of their discussion. 

The Feeling group tends to report that they say "I'm sorry" many times a day and in many situations.  They will discover that they say "I'm sorry"  frequently, even when they have no reason to do so!  It becomes a habit.  

The Thinking group, on the other hand, will report that they rarely say, "I'm sorry."  They will admit that they do say it on occasion, but only when they are caught and are proven wrong! 

Regardless of how each group answers the question, it provides for a lively and eye-opening discussion that is interesting for everyone.  

 4) You can encourage the discussion by asking the groups together to discuss, "What would be the likely effects of this on a team?" Or with an intact team, "What have been the effects of this on your team?"   

5) I always end exercises with two final questions, "What learning are your takeaways from this?" and "How are you going to use this new learning?"

Results of Our Recent Survey
Leadership, Midlife and Shadow 

By 70% to 30%, you prefer to meet on a weekday versus a Saturday.  (This explained to us the reason Saturday workshops were not filling up.   We used to hold most of our workshops on a Saturday with no problem.  Times have changed!)  Your preferred weekdays for workshops are Friday (68%) and Monday (48%), followed by Thursday (38%).  Wednesday is preferred by 24%, followed by Tuesday (14%).

For half-day workshops, 54% preferred they be held in the Morning; 25% preferred Afternoon.  For 21% of you, it doesn't matter what time of day we hold the workshop.

Who's Driving The Car?

Tertiary function - the function about which the least is written.  It is the first of the four functions to have more of it in the unconscious than in the conscious - it is more unavailable than available.

- Inferior function - the least dependable, reliable, trustworthy, manageable, predictable and favored function.  On balance, the inferior function brings us more pain than joy.

- We need to stop doing one function (e.g., P or J) in order to do its polarity function.

-  T's judge if something is true or false; F's judge if something is good or bad.

-  T's analysis is objective; F's analysis pulls data into the decider - subjective.

-  When Te (extraverted Thinking) is dominant, it comes out into the world as baked, decided and evaluated.

-  ENFP's don't necessarily like to be in leadership positions, though they do wind up in them.  They are academic overachievers - have the most graduate degrees. Often this is done to please someone else. 

- Si (introverted Sensing) - is sensory awareness of the past.  In the filing cabinet.  Not ordered or organized.  Archived.  Huge filing cabinet.  Past procedures, rules, specifics, etc.  Si hordes past knowledge, looks, sounds.  Sequence of detail.  Historically rich. What happened when. 

-  Any function that is in the inferior position is not an exercised muscle - so a person may not be able to access it, or may misinterpret it...may look bumbling when using it. 

-  Introversion    always starts with the hermit in the cave.

- INTJ - big disconnect between their inner world of possibilities (connections...excitement...visioning) and the outer world.  Difficult to communicate all of this to the outer world through Te, which can sound controlling, bossy, scheduled.

- The extraverted function in our type code (S-N or T-F) is the one with which we deal with the outer world.  For Introverts, this is not the "boss."  The introverted function is the boss for Introverts.

-  When someone is in the grip of their inferior function, you can help them get out of it by asking them a question that they can not do with their inferior function.

- When trying to clarify someone's Type, you could ask them what tasks they dread (not just dislike, but dread), and that is a clue to the Inferior function, then you can use that knowledge to back into their Type.