Presented by Katherine
and Elizabeth Hirsh
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
1pm EST – 2:30pm EST
MBTI CE Credits: 1.5
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Do the decisions of your decision-making partners occasionally leave you perplexed? Do you ever wonder about what motivates others during decision making? Do your own decisions, at times, catch you by surprise? This webinar explores the ways in which personality preferences influence how individuals typically make decisions. It is designed to help you make better decisions and understand more about how others approach decision making through the application of type theory. Using an in-depth case study, we outline strengths and challenges for decision makers that flow from psychological type and demonstrate how type can illuminate similarities and differences in decision-making style. The case study also serves to illustrate how type can provide a neutral language in which to discuss difficult decisions and lessen the conflicts that can erupt during the decision-making process.
In addition to the importance of exploring your style in relation to that of your decision making partners, delving into the gifts and challenges your preferences bring can help you to become a more balanced decision maker. Good decision making requires attention to all eight preferences, the four represented by the letters type in your code as well as their four less practiced and less familiar opposites. With this in mind, we provide type development tips that promote decision-making excellence. Join us for an opportunity to reflect on your assumptions about decision making and leave with strategies that can be applied immediately to improve individual and group decision making for decisions large and small, personal and professional.
Objectives
- Highlight ways in which psychological type influences decision making
- Suggest how type knowledge can help reduce conflict during decision making
- Explore methods for improving individual and group decision making
- Make decision making more fun (or at least less stressful!)
Who Should Attend:
This webinar is for anyone interested in exploring the impact of personality preferences on decision making and more specifically, practitioners and leaders – managers counselors, consultants, coaches, trainers, human resource professionals, educators, etc. – who want to help their colleagues and/or clients develop their decision making.
About the Presenters
Dr Katherine W. Hirsh
Dr Katherine W. Hirsh has been using psychological type and the MBTI® Tool in coaching, training, management consulting, education, and personal, professional and faculty development for over 20 years. Her assessment toolkit also includes the Strengths Deployment Inventory ® (SDI®), the Klein Group InstrumentÔ for Effective Leadership (KGI), the Strong Interest Inventory® and the Pearson-Marr Archetype IndicatorÔ (PMAI). She has consulted with clients locally, nationally, and internationally.
Katherine has taught psychology at Cambridge University (UK), Cardiff University (UK) and Macalester College (US); and instructional design at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities (US). She is a member of the traveling workshop faculty for the Collaboration for the Advancement of College Teaching and Learning and the faculty of the LearningLife and Compleat Scholar Programs at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.
Katherine is active in the type community, currently serving on the board of directors of the Association for Psychological Type International (APTi) in the role of President-Elect. She is a founding member of the board of the APTi e-Chapter. Katherine is a frequent contributor to the APTi Bulletin, producing essays, book reviews and other articles of practical interest to the Type community. She also is a regular speaker at local chapters of APTi and local and national type organizations outside North America.
Elizabeth Hirsh, MS
Elizabeth Hirsh, MS has been using psychological type and the MBTI® Tool in coaching, training, management consulting, education, and personal, professional and faculty development for 19 years. She has provided consulting, counseling, and education to individuals and groups locally, nationally, and internationally. She has served for-profit and non-profit organizations and has worked with a diverse range of clients from business leaders, career changers, and students to survivors of domestic violence, those coping with mental and physical illness, as well as those who act as caregivers. Elizabeth‘s goal is to help people pursue their personal and professional best in whatever world they inhabit and in the way most meaningful to them.
Elizabeth is a member of the Association for Psychological Type International (APTi), Twin Cities Association for Psychological Type (TCAPT) and is a founding member of the APTi e-Chapter. Elizabeth has been fortunate to facilitate workshops for local, national, and international type organizations and has an ongoing role as an online educator for APTi whose programs are attended by learners worldwide.
Together Elizabeth and Katherine form HirshWorks, LLC, a management and coaching consultancy devoted to improving the performance of individuals, groups, teams and organizations in their decision making, leadership, team work, facilitation, writing and teaching in order to increase personal and professional satisfaction and development. They are co-authors of Introduction to Type® and Decision Making; and, with Sandra K. Hirsh, the second edition of Introduction to Type® and Teams and second and third editions The MBTI® Teambuilding Program: Leader’s Resource Guide. A standalone MBTI® report based on their decision-making material is due to appear in 2010. In addition, Elizabeth and Katherine also the authors of the Self-Discovery Digest, a blog dedicated to encouraging people to live their best life possible despite the ups and downs of human experience.
