Myers Briggs Coaching Sessions

Have you ever wondered why you react to things in a different way to other people? This is because we all have different personality types, and you can use Myers Briggs to find out more about your personality preferences, and therefore understand better what your personality type is.

I am a qualified MBTI practitioner, and love the power that learning what your personality type can give an individual.
I offer a special Myers Briggs Coaching session to anyone who may be interested in learning more about their own personality preferences.

The offering will include:
- provision via e mail of the MBTI questionnaire for completion in your own time
- an interactive feedback session where you will discover your personality type (up to 90 minute in duration)
- reference tools including detailed personality descriptors, feedback workbook and a detailed personality type report.

For this session, I will charge £150 as a one-off fee. If you are interested, please contact me directly

If you want to understand more about Myers Briggs, please check the following weblink:

https://www.myersbriggs.org/my-mbti-personality-type/mbti-basics/home.htm?bhcp=1

Why Emotional Intelligence matters...

So, I am currently reading Jenny Rogers' really interesting book - Coaching with Personality Type. This book reflects on improving the use of MBTI and other similar tools as part of leadership development and coaching.

One area i wanted to reflect on was Emotional Intelligence (EQ). The premise is that along with your own technical expertise and understanding, you also need EQ to be a better version of you in the workplace, and hence effectively a better leader. What EQ factors should you have:

• better awareness of yourself; knowing what you do well, and what you maybe need to work on
• managing yourself better; so if you do have something you need to work on, what is your strategy to improve it
• knowing others; understanding what makes someone tick and that people have different ways of thinking and behaving
• managing others; how do you deal with people in your network, what do you do well, and how could you improve. This is not just people who work for you but also those you work with internally and externally, as peers, clients etc.

To manage people better you need to know yourself, manage yourself, adapt and welcome that other people are different, and be able to flex your style accordingly, whiie not compromising your own values.

To aid your EQ understanding, it is useful to understand your personality type better, so if you've never had a Myers Briggs personality test done before, get in touch... it could be the first step on the voyage of discovery to a better understanding of your Emotional Intelligence!

Coaching Exercises as we get into the programme

The next stage in a Coaching Journey is when we work together to understand some or all of the following:
- your Strengths and Development Areas, skills and interests, core qualities and establishing your Unique Selling Point
- the Values that really matter to you
- 360 Feedback from other people (if appropriate to the programme)
- future planning exercises - "where do you see yourself in 5 years time, and how do you get to that point" 
- network mapping to understand the relationships you have with other people you work with, and how those relationships can be enhanced
- time management, prioritisation and strategies for task completion
- the wheel of life which can be useful in determining how you feel about your life balance, and helps you to identify where things could be improved

There are a number of exercises we can do during the course of these sessions to assist with assimilating the information above. The areas covered will depend on what we have discussed in the initial meeting, and what matters most for you. What we cover in this next stage is designed around you to help build your confidence and understanding of yourself.



Context... the next step

So what happens next in the Coaching Journey....

Once you have confirmed you are happy to proceed with a programme, and that you are happy with the objectives, we get to work...

At the first meeting, I will go through any number of exercises and discussions, for example:

- understanding of your career timeline: what has gone well to date, what has gone less well, any patterns, understanding where you are at currently
- a Myers Briggs feedback session (i often do this if the client has not done the MBTI questionnaire before, and I will cover this separately in more detail in another update)

What I am trying to establish during this session is the CONTEXT to your career and life to date, as this will provide context and perspective going forward as well!

I love this first session - there are often Eureka moments as you go through your career timeline where you realise what may have made a role that had been enjoyable for the first two years suddenly become less enjoyable, and having more awareness of these triggers can be really helpful! It's also fun if doing Myers Briggs to hear the observations as to you believe other people's personality types might be after going through the feedback session!

The first session will usually last 90 minutes to 2 hours, and by the end of it, you should feel like you have talked about yourself for most of the session without it feeling awkward or uncomfortable, and be looking forward to future sessions.

First Meeting, Objectives & Coaching Contract

I wanted to give you a further insight into my Coaching philosophy today...

Once I have met a client for an initial chemistry session, and we are both happy that we would like to start a formal Coaching relationship, we work together to discuss objectives for your programme. These can be strategic, operational, managerial, career orientated, and I will also include some objectives around the actual programme itself, and making sure you feedback as to how you are finding it - after all, it's YOUR programme! I will draw these up into a Coaching Contract which we will sign off at the start of our first formal session.

The objectives for the programme are really important to you as a Client as it provides the backdrop as to what you are working to achieve over the coming weeks and months.

Systemic Coaching with Constellations

I wanted to let you know about the Coaching training I did on Saturday.

It covered a theory called Systemic Coaching with Constellations which is more popular in Continental Europe than it is here. It is a form of coaching which challenges coach and coachee to think about issues in a 3D or even 4D way using props or people to visualise the issue as it is, and move the system around to seek a better solution. This could be an individual issue or it could be a wider group issue.

It was a really interesting exercise to do and the photos represent my 'As Is' and 'Future' views of an issue pertinent to me.

I would love to find out more and understand this branch of Coaching better, and who knows once I have more knowledge, I could try the methodology out on you!

So What is Coaching?

Some of you may be wondering so over the next few weeks, I'm going to give you a few pointers to help you understand better what I do, and therefore how i can help you to succeed!

Coaching is a journey we take together to empower you more than you may have felt before. We will spend time together discussing YOU and understanding what you want to achieve! The journey should heighten your own self awareness, help you to discover more about yourselves and give you more choices and tools to work with.

We will work together to achieve what you want to achieve... hiring a coach to assist you on that journey is the first important step.

The key element for me is that a Coach should care about their clients... being an empathetic listener is so important.

Before I start any coaching relationship, I meet initially with you primarily to understand what they want to achieve from us working together, and make sure we get on... then we'll move onto the next steps with the journey....