4-6 minute Seminar Sample

The most compelling training events with the longest lasting impacts are those that get participants up and moving, invite not only participant voices but their skepticism as well and enable everyone to leave the training ready to move from awareness to action. OKA has long used experiential techniques to bring type training to life crafting—through trial and error—a series of experiments, exercises, activities and action plans that greatly enhance a trainer’s ability to spark interest in type among her clients and to move them both to validate their types and to craft effective next steps.

In this program, Hile Rutledge of OKA will detail a number of training ideas, processing techniques and group exercises designed to expand a trainer’s options in working with groups. Including a review of frequently asked questions in type training and a frank discussion of “what ifs” (the dreaded mistakes and unexpected exercise outputs that can arise when drawing on group participation), this program will provide a number of new training ideas and breathe new life into designs that have gotten stale or too presenter-driven.

Objectives

• Learn techniques to pre-sort experiment groups by reported type preferences to enable participants to explore type in action before results are handed back or type concepts are even discussed
• Explore options of how to actively engage everyone—even participants whose preferences you do not know or who have not even taken a type assessment
• Learn experiential training techniques uniquely tailored to large groups (50 to 80 or even higher) and others geared toward more intimate groups (4-8)
• Learn the logic of timing gro up exercises—when to conduct them, when to process the output data, and how much emphasis to put on them.
• Review effective answers to frequently asked type questions and get the chance to pass along your own challenging questions.

Some attendee comments…

• “I’ve been training on MBTI for a few years now and I really enjoyed learning some fresh methods that I can incorporate in my future training!”
• “Great insights on using type in training and how (and why) to make it experiential, with examples, and some great usable ‘experiments’ (exercises) and how to set-up and some pitfalls to be aware of and how to adjust.”

Presented by Hile Rutledge

CEO of Otto Kroeger Associates, author of the MBTI® Introduction Workbook and the Four Temperaments Workbook, and co-author of Reversing Forward, the revised Type Talk At Work, and Generations: Bridging the Gap with Type, Hile Rutledge is an experienced organization development consultant, trainer and public speaker with a background in management, sales, adult education and leadership development. Expert in the use of psychological type and the MBTI® assessment, Hile has worked with both public and private sector clients whose needs range from team building, communications and feedback training, conflict management, strategic planning and other large group events and skills-based workshops.

Hile’s career has taken him into archaeology, public relations, sales management, career counseling and independent organization development consulting. Hile has a BA in Humanities from Hampden-Sydney College and a Master of Science in Organization Development from the American University (AU/NTL). Hile, an INFP, resides with his wife and two sons just outside of Washington DC in the United States.