4-6 minute Seminar Sample

Presented by Ray Linder

More than anything else, teamwork is about collaboration – how people work together. But far too often, the focus on the team’s work is so great that the people aspects of the team are dismissed as secondary. When that happens, team members work with less energy and determination, misunderstandings occur and the pursuit of the team’s goal is undermined. The relational aspects of teamwork are typically seen as a problem to overcome rather than a tool that should be used to produce higher performance.

What makes teamwork so challenging is that each person on the team has influence on each of the other team members. How team members affect each other is a critical – yet so often neglected – determinant of the success of the team. Yet even when teams want to focus on their relationships, they often feel that they don’t have the tools or language to draw out useful insights. However, within the 4-letter MBTI code are elements that can provide rich ground for meaningful conversations about how team members can increase their productivity through sustaining positive relationships.

In the presentation, Ray will highlight three critical issues that affect collaboration and how personality type can provide insights to help team members work harder, smarter and faster. What you will learn in this webinar is:

1. the role of Temperament in motivation
2. the impact of the J/P preferences on communication
3. the problem of opposites – using Jungian functions to gain insight into conflict triggers

For MBTI facilitators this presentation will provide highly applicable and easy to implement next steps after an MBTI introductory workshop. For team leaders or team members, the presentation will provide tools to anticipate and avoid common team pitfalls, and ways to foster greater productivity.

Some attendee comments…

• “I thought the information presented was very valuable to helping me better understand and increase my ability to work with those of the opposite type and to help others to understand the challenges and pathways forward to better working with your opposite. Very worthwhile.”
• “I cannot wait for the DVD so that I can listen to this again. There was much relevant content in the topic, from communication and decision variables within our own small department to the larger organization.”

About the Presenter

Ray Linder

Ray Linder is the Founder and CEO of Goodstewardship.com, an internationally recognized teacher of team success and personal development. With his practical and high-impact programs, along with his engaging, high-energy style, Ray has helped build winning teams for some of the world’s top organizations by teaching people the value of being themselves, and how to benefit from the natural gifts of others. The result is organizations being transformed into winning teams as each member is celebrated for their unique set of talents.

Ray’s work in the area of personality is internationally recognized and he has worked with Fortune 500 companies, government agencies such as the Office of Personnel Management and the Department of Justice, the U.S. Army, the District of Columbia, and major universities. He is author of three books, including What Should I Do With My Money? How Your Personality Affects Your Financial Behavior. Ray was featured on the CNBC program Watch and Make Money and his many media appearances include USA Today, the Washington Post, the Boston Herald, Bloomberg Wealth Manager, Mutual Funds Magazine Leadership, Focus on the Family, Bulletin of Psychological Type, and TypeWorks.

Ray is an associate of Otto Kroeger Associates, the world’s leading training firm for the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. He has over 25 years of business experience including corporate finance, investment management, fundraising and development, consulting, sales, pastoral ministry, and small business management.