Effective leaders capitalize on their strengths & manage their weaknesses. Build your power skills by understanding the MBTI, personality type assessment, and how to use your type to your greatest advantage as an effective leader.
Great leaders are just ordinary people with the right skills at the right time. To become a great leader, however, you have to know yourself well. What are your core personality attributes? How do you make decisions? What’s your decision-making style? How do you know?
This certificate offers an extraordinary opportunity to spend some quality time with yourself to assess your current level of soft skills, clearly define your core self, and build soft skills which are essential to professional, not to mention life, success.
In this course, you will learn about the Myers-Briggs Personality Type Indicator, MBTI for short. It is the most frequently used assessment of personality type in the world. Nearly 90% of the Fortune 100 companies use MBTI for recruitment, promotions, job-fit decisions, and building more effective teams.
Within this course, you will find the following topics:
What is personality type
Why personality type matters personally and professionally
How type preferences influence behavior
Your personality type
Strengths and pitfalls of your personality type
How to use personality type to:
Have constructive conflict
Increase your energy
Build better teams
Communicate more effectively
Learn more effectively
Contribute more at work
Better manage stress
Core personality traits are much more difficult to change than any single Power Skill. So, it’s very important to understand your type, its strengths & weaknesses, and how to use your understanding of your type to be happier and happier at work. Personality type describes how you prefer to get data, make decisions, generate energy and are oriented to the outside world. These are preferences which are your personality's default setting. Your behavior may differ, may have to differ sometimes from your preferences, but that takes extra energy to do.
Your take-aways from this course will include:
Understanding of type
Difference between preferences and behavior
Characteristics typical of each preference pair
Generate energy: extroversion/introversion
Gather data: sensing, intuitive
Make decisions: thinking, feeling
Orientation to Outside World: judging, perceiving
How to:
Optimize your type at work
Solve problems using type dynamics
Communicate more effectively
Better manage stress
Learn in alignment with your type
Do constructive conflict with type
Your Instructor
Professor Davis is an innovative educator whose specialty lies in educating students in Managing Project Teams and Evolving as Project Leader. She is the sole instructor and creator of the Re-Imaging Leadership Professional Certificate on edX.
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