36 HR Training & Consultancy uses a variety of fun team building and team development learning activities as well as interesting games to help learners learn to experience during the MBTI Team Building Training Workshops. Below are some examples of simple MBTI Team Development learning activities.

Extraversion-Introversion Team Development Activity – Birthday Party

The following exercise will be suitable for groups of 5 to 8 people:

Allow the groups about 10 mins to play the party and then have each group describe their party to the other groups.

Questions to Ask

• How simple was it to make party decisions?
• Are they themselves excited about the party?
• Are the opposite type groups excited about the party?
• How different groups of people would react to parties planned by others?

Debriefing

This is where the fun is. The extroverts typically will use words like “fun”, “interesting”, “outdoors”, to describe their idea of an ideal party. The introverts on the other hand, tend to use words like “quiet”, “indoor” to describe their ideal party. The participants will have a ‘revelation’ of what they want could be very different from what the birthday person wants.

It is also worthwhile to discuss with the participants to consider this insight that the preferences can be so different and how this insight would affect their decision making or communication with the ‘opposite’ MBTI type from themselves.

Ok let’s move to the next fun MBTI Team development game.

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Sensing-Intuition Team Development Activity – Apple

Talk about an Apple

The Apple Experiment in Sensing and Intuition

Sensing types will typically write a description based on their senses (what they can see, hear, taste, and touch). Read the sensing student examples below, and then have the sensing students in the class read what they have written. They will frequently provide apple facts.

Then read the examples from intuitive students below. Then, request that intuitive types read what they have written. These types frequently go beyond the facts to describe associations with apples. They rarely just describe the apple’s physical characteristics.

When giving instructions for this exercise, use caution. If you ask students to describe the apple, they will all focus on the description rather than using their intuition. Remember that some students are combination personalities, so they may describe the apple in both sensing and intuitive ways. It is beneficial to provide examples of sensing type responses and to inquire whether any sensing types wrote similar responses. Apply the same logic to intuitive responses. This exercise can be done with any other object. Any fruit is appropriate for this exercise because you can describe it using all of your senses and add any creative insights.

Debriefing

• Ask participants what differences they have observed between Sensing Participants and Intuition participants.
• Ask participants to relate these differences at work and how they have managed
• Invite participants to think about how to engage the opposite type taking into account the differences

Here are some examples of what my sensing participants wrote about the apple:

The apple is red and yellow in colour. It has a small stem and does not appear to be fully ripe. It has a sticker on it and is quite small.

The apple is yellow, red, round, delicious, and nutritious. It has a pleasant aroma and flavour.

The apple is red, yellow, and almost gold in colour. One side is red and gradually blends into the yellow. The stem has a 90-degree bend in it. One side is significantly larger than the other.

Here are some of the things intuitive participants in my class wrote about apples:

Apple can feed, but it can also kill, as demonstrated by the wicked godmother’s use of it to choke Snow White.

Apple is a symbol of invention, as Steve Jobs used to portray it.

Based on the above insight, you can ask the participants how this impacts their work in the office.

Let’s go on to the next MBTI activity on Thinking-Feeling.

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Thinking-Feeling Team Development Activity – Workplace Question

Give the following instructions to the participants:

Take five minutes to brainstorm 4-5 responses with your group.

Debriefing

Request that the groups share their responses, noting how their responses tend to demonstrate the values associated with their respective types. Thinkers are more likely to notice opportunities for advancement and personal achievement, high earning potential, or the company’s market standing. Feelers are more likely to notice a positive company culture, helpful coworkers, or a charitable company mission.

• Ask participants what differences they have observed between Thinking Participants and Feeling participants.
• Ask participants to relate these differences at work and how they have managed
• Invite participants to think about how to engage the opposite type taking into account the differences

Let’s progress to the next MBTI Team building activity on Judging-Perceiving and have some fun!

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Judging-Perceiving Team Development Activity – Workplace Question

This activity can be completed by each participant individually.  Instructions:

Allow 5 minutes for participants to list what they would do with the windfall, and then ask participants from both the Judging and Perceiving types to share their responses.

Debriefing

Answers frequently reveal Judging type to be responsible, organized, and intentional with money and Perceiving type’s tendency to be more spontaneous or to gamble or invest the money in order to make more.

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This blog will be regularly updated to reflect more free Myers Briggs activities as well as how to use MBTI learning activities for your MBTI Team Building workshop.

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