Archive

• 2018
  • October (1)
    • Welcome from our CEO
  • September (1)
    • The changing world of work
  • August (3)
    • Managing conflict
    • Is conflict holding you back?
    • Reduce, reuse, recycle
  • July (3)
    • Together, not together
    • Type and activism
    • The power of Introversion
  • June (1)
    • Be better at work, feel better in life
  • May (4)
    • Developing future leaders
    • What about GDPR?
    • Approaching the unknown
    • How to fail to achieve your organisational goals
  • April (2)
    • Taking action on stress
    • Stress matters
  • March (1)
    • MBTI Step II: why I found it to be a perfect fit
  • January (1)
    • Does knowing your MBTI type help you to get fit?
• 2017
  • December (1)
    • Christmas, happiness and your MBTI type
  • November (2)
    • Confidence, Extraversion, and understanding: which is the greatest gift?
    • Raising self-awareness: What works?
  • October (1)
    • How does personality type affect self-awareness?
  • September (2)
    • Self awareness
    • Well-being and type: what’s the connection?
  • August (2)
    • Well-being: it's more than happiness
    • Reflections on my first 18 months as an MBTI practitioner in the University of Oxford
  • July (2)
    • Salary: secrecy or transparency?
    • Increasing your behavioural flexibility
  • June (4)
    • Can people development borrow from the science of marginal gains?
    • Type and Appreciation - Part 2
    • Type and Appreciation - Part 1
    • The colourful world of personality type
  • May (2)
    • Improving business results using the MBTI instrument
    • The introverted trainer
  • April (2)
    • Hidden figures
    • Inside Out, Outside In: a model to accelerate leadership growth
  • March (4)
    • Decisions and Brexit: are you Tough or Tender?
    • Are you an entrepreneur? Knowing your MBTI type could be useful
    • This girl can
    • Top MBTI and Type books
  • February (2)
    • MBTI Type, FIRO, love and relationships
    • Leadership strengths through the lens of Type
  • January (2)
    • Top content summary from 2016
    • Decisions, self-confidence and the glass ceiling: can the MBTI framework help?
• 2016
  • December (2)
    • Ho ho how do MBTI Types differ at Christmas?
    • 10 top tips – add depth to coaching with the MBTI framework
  • November (1)
    • Early obstacles to MBTI Type development
  • October (2)
    • Using MBTI Type to get to grips with email – quickly
    • MBTI, communication and the Brexit phoney war
  • September (2)
    • Using Type to 'get' email
    • Breaking the ice
  • August (2)
    • The tallest tree in the forest
    • What is your MBTI Type of Sport?
  • July (4)
    • That difficult woman #BloodyDifficultWoman
    • How to influence with impact
    • Le Tour de France – it's all about high-performing teams
    • What do you get when you fill a room with MBTI enthusiasts?
  • June (3)
    • Brexit and the challenge of change
    • The rise of the robots
    • New FIRO Inclusion / Involvement exercise
  • May (3)
    • What's your MBTI Type garden?
    • Recovering from stress: Getting back to your best
    • Fixing the Foxes: stress, Leicester City, and personality Type
  • April (5)
    • Core Characters under great stress: the grip experience
    • FIRO and MBTI: the gold standard tools for coaching
    • Everyday stress: Using Core Characters to understand what happens
    • April is stress awareness month
    • Decoding communication issues between MBTI Types
  • March (4)
    • The MBTI instrument - my most valid tool
    • More to Fun Type Tables than meets the eye
    • Our canine inspired MBTI Type Table
    • Introducing the Core Characters of Type
  • February (4)
    • Understanding the science of conflict
    • Valentine's reflections: Sandra and Terry 20 years on
    • What's your MBTI Type Valentine's sentiment
    • Persuasion, people and personality
  • January (4)
    • How should we respond to criticism of the MBTI assessment?
    • FIRO icebreaker exercise
    • What will be hot in 2016?
    • What's your MBTI Type New Year's Resolution?
• 2015
  • December (4)
    • Top MBTI practitioner downloads 2015
    • I feel I have an MBTI preference for Thinking
    • Top OPP blog posts 2015
    • What is your MBTI Type Tea
  • November (5)
    • Which Santa is coming down your chimney?
    • Team development and the power of MBTI Step II
    • Type tips for coaching and development
    • The 5 most common ways to lose a good manager
    • Stress - it is personal
  • October (5)
    • Why bother with a questionnaire when working with MBTI Type?
    • MBTI icebreaker exercise – it’s a numbers game
    • Leadership: it is rocket science… what quantum physics can teach us about leadership
    • Insight Out
    • Are open-plan offices bad for your wellbeing?
  • September (4)
    • Five most common ways to alienate your staff
    • Does all this talk of Ambiversion mean the MBTI framework is out of date?
    • What's your MBTI Type bake?
    • Outsight and playful porridge
  • August (4)
    • Home-made competency models – a clown’s suitcase?
    • FIRO – getting so much from so little
    • Are you a confident idiot? The importance of cognitive confidence
    • How long will it be before Smartphones replace computers for employee assessment?
  • July (4)
    • Chris Froome – the nature (and nurture) of a winner
    • Coaching using Type: insights from Myers, Jung, Adler, Cookie Monster and you! Part 2
    • Coaching using Type: insights from Myers, Jung, Adler, Cookie Monster and you! Part 1
    • Top tips for increasing the impact of your team coaching - part 2
  • June (5)
    • What's your perfect Type holiday?
    • Innovation is in everyone's DNA
    • Top tips for increasing the impact of your team coaching – part 1
    • Recruitment: it's on the cards
    • Watch out: overconfident opinion leaders about!
  • May (4)
    • Digital badges
    • Did Little Red Riding Hood have an S Preference?
    • Push me, pull me - the persuasive power of the MBTI process
    • Who earns more - Conservatives or Lefties?
  • April (5)
    • Does your personality affect your politics?
    • Conflict and leadership: what does the data say?
    • Re-engage with Type using MBTI Step II
    • Using emotional judgement to reduce biases in decision-making
    • What plant Type are you?
  • March (4)
    • Borderline research
    • The quick path to deeper team insights with MBTI Step II
    • Does being true to yourself make you happier?
    • Five most common reasons for employees to resign
  • February (4)
    • Painting a deeper picture: the benefits of using the MBTI and EJI tools in combination
    • Five tips for conducting effective job interviews
    • Are YOU ‘that’ manager? Building your emotional intelligence
    • Emotional Intelligence: What is it and does it matter?
  • January (4)
    • Trends in global leadership: where does type fit in?
    • 2015 - a year to celebrate coaching
    • The Selfie Stick of Shame
    • Goal-setting and resolutions – five top tips and five probing questions
• 2014
  • December (4)
    • Top five OPP blog articles of 2014
    • More serious fun in L&D: Typies get personal
    • Ten top tips for staff retention
    • Mind the gap! Addressing the fear factor in times of change
  • November (3)
    • Your type of Santa
    • Top 10 best-selling practitioner resources
    • Trust: it’s what success is all about
  • October (4)
    • Type quotes for Movember!
    • What type time is it?
    • How to structure those reference requests
    • Six videos that help illustrate MBTI type
  • September (4)
    • Time to have some serious fun in L&D – part 3: getting sticky!
    • Time to have some serious fun in L&D – part 2
    • Ten more books about MBTI and type that you can't afford to be without!
    • Time to have some serious fun in L&D – part 1
  • August (4)
    • Timelines and personality – tracking type in space and time
    • Ten books about MBTI and type that you can't afford to be without!
    • MBTI ‘aha!’ moments and ROI – where is the evidence?
    • Are you heading for a recruitment nightmare?
  • July (5)
    • What's your MBTI sports type?
    • Celebrating the TKI’s 40th year anniversary
    • Siblings: a tale of Tension and Apprehension
    • What do you WANT from me?! How understanding motivation can lead to more effective behaviour
    • Why’d you do THAT?! Interpersonal needs and motivations
  • June (3)
    • Receiving feedback well... a question of give and take
    • Why are you dreading the football World Cup?!
    • Celebrating the TKI’s 40th year anniversary
  • May (5)
    • Celebrate with 25 free resources for practitioners
    • What’s going on under all that forming, storming and norming in teams?
    • What type of shoe are you?!
    • “Pah! The youth of today!” ...More similar to you than you might think?!
    • Ten top tips for using psychometric tools competently
  • April (3)
    • Polarity management and the MBTI
    • Why leadership development fails to make an impact
    • What's your type tipple?
  • March (4)
    • The mysterious case of the assessment centre
    • HR Strikes Back at the HR Grapevine Conference!
    • Being Lost
    • Is your Board male, pale and stale? Update your executive recruitment!
  • February (4)
    • The easy path to happiness, love and success?
    • Mind the generation gap – how aging affects what we need from work
    • Recruiting? Eight great questions you should ask yourself
    • Psychometric testing: why nobody has to miss out
  • January (4)
    • Should we blame psychometric tests for Paul Flowers’ mismanagement of the Co-operative Bank?
    • Top five blog articles of 2013
    • Accelerating learning about type
    • Welcome! Goodbye...?
• 2013
  • December (4)
    • The BBC Bike Test – heading in the wrong direction
    • Test your MBTI knowledge with our fun Christmas quiz!
    • Effective stakeholder engagement makes the consultancy world go round
    • MBTI type and seasonal shopping – Christmas cheer or Christmas chore?
  • November (4)
    • You don't have to be motivated to work here, but it helps!
    • Hiring and bias: let's have less denial and more damage limitation
    • Ten terrible (un)truths about psychometric tests in selection
    • Bias? By us? Opening our eyes to prejudice in recruitment
  • October (5)
    • The power of the MBTI process
    • Why every coach needs the MBTI
    • Email - a short cut to winding up your colleagues?
    • Would you rather go on a date with Apple or McDonalds?
    • Hitting the nail on the head
  • September (5)
    • From Monday blues to Monday rock
    • The MBTI is flawed! Oh no it isn’t! Oh yes it is! Let’s move on...
    • The nonsense of benchmarking?
    • "Dance for me, then tell me how many ping-pong balls would fit in this room!" - the Interview Question Hall of Shame
    • Sixteen business psychology resources to help you manage stress
  • August (4)
    • Why companies shouldn’t be afraid of talking about their people-development work
    • The sporting elite: which personality characteristics contribute to sporting success?
    • Neuroscience of personality: your brain and type
    • Acting like an extrovert will make you happier
  • July (5)
    • What your type can tell you about increasing personal and team productivity
    • Reporting back: what’s going on with the movers and shakers in MBTI world!
    • The OPPrentice: the entrepreneurial top five
    • Could Andy Murray be a great leader?
    • Introverted tortoises and Extraverted hares
  • June (4)
    • 'Typing' your emails: communicating better with the MBTI tool
    • Thinking of using a personality assessment for development? Ten reasons why MBTI development with a qualified practitioner is the real deal
    • Avoiding the ‘so what?’ factor with MBTI development
    • Nurturing influencing skills using the MBTI framework
  • May (5)
    • Type and culture: two pieces of the same puzzle
    • Do learning strategies mediate the relationship between personality and stress?
    • Infographic: the psychology of stress
    • A little MBTI knowledge can be a dangerous thing
    • Did your personality predict how you voted yesterday?
  • April (3)
    • The “sham test” controversy – a wasted opportunity?
    • Does everyone need good team-working skills?
    • A consultant's experience: bringing Sensing and iNtuition to life in a team
  • March (4)
    • The introverted trainer
    • Infographic: MBTI and social media usage
    • Ambition and Personality - how important are they for career success?
    • If the MBTI was a person, would it embody lifelong learning?
  • February (5)
    • The MBTI instrument through the eyes of its practitioners
    • Horsemeat, vegetarianism and personality
    • When I grow up I want to be... Personality and university course choice
    • What can the science of personality tell you about love?
    • Where's the good careers advice when you need it?
  • January (3)
    • The MBTI questionnaire: still going strong after 70 years
    • The "Big One"
    • Leadership - 10 New Year's resolutions
• 2012
  • December (3)
    • How festive are you feeling?
    • How festive are you feeling?
    • Do bad bosses get a bad rap?
  • November (5)
    • Can you use psychometric tools in redundancy decisions?
    • Personality and the pursuit of happiness
    • Are we biologically programmed to have a preference for Thinking or Feeling?
    • High performance without the stress: fostering resilience
    • The battle of leadership
  • October (5)
    • MBTI Step II and leadership development
    • Is graphology a valid recruitment method?
    • Leadership development and business simulations
    • The selection interview and use of psychometrics: debunking some myths and misconceptions
    • The secret of leadership success?
  • September (9)
    • The role of mediation in resolving conflicts
    • Bringing greater consciousness into organisations
    • Type dynamics - who's in the driver's seat?
    • The marriage between conflict and change
    • 'Is it better to be an extrovert?' asks The Sunday Times
    • Conflict management and political behaviour across the globe
    • Resolving the frozen misperceptions between two warring parties
    • Are you misusing the MBTI^® questionnaire?
    • Bullying behaviour and conflict management
  • August (7)
    • Does an instrument assess 'looking good' or actual behaviour?
    • The big picture and conflict management
    • Personality, worrying and annual leave
    • The avoiding culture in many organizations
    • MBTI and sport
    • Show me your money
    • Cultural norms and conflict modes
  • July (7)
    • Assumptional analysis and conflict modes
    • Psychological fitness: the key to resilience
    • All personality tests are not equal
    • Bob Diamond was not God
    • Is life good?
    • Problem management and conflict modes
    • Correlating the MBTI and TKI assessments
  • June (4)
    • Top six tips for managing conflict in the workplace
    • The OPPrentice: what can we learn from Ricky’s metamorphosis?
    • Personality and self-awareness: navigating the hall of mirrors
    • Should you really be yourself at work?
  • May (8)
    • The OPPrentice: objectivity would be a Sweet Thing
    • The management mismatch
    • The OPPrentice: double discount, double firing
    • The OPPrentice: no cheese please, we're British
    • Reaching for your potential through type development
    • The OPPrentice: horror show for Team Phoenix
    • When it comes to soft skills, every little helps
    • The OPPrentice: the only way is tan
  • April (4)
    • The OPPrentice: what a load of old meatballs
    • The OPPrentice: Survival of the fittest?
    • The OPPrentice: Leading the way through a heap of junk
    • The OPPrentice: Did too many cooks spoil the broth or were many heads better than one?
  • March (4)
    • Do we really give introverts a hard time?
    • Can bedside manner be measured?
    • Ditching the kitchen and boosting the boardroom
    • Did Fabio Capello build a team or a legacy of dependency?
  • February (4)
    • Can the Government's 'business compact' have an effect on unconscious bias?
    • Those that play together, stay together...
    • I’m not an alien, I’m just a senior exec
    • Looking for love this Valentine’s? What if your date is just not your type?!
  • January (4)
    • You can choose your friends but can you choose your colleagues too?
    • Is power sharing the key to engagement?
    • January blues
    • Facebook: career-limiting move?
• 2011
  • December (4)
    • Should I stay or should I go? David Cameron’s negotiation style with the EU
    • Handling stress at Christmas time
    • News travels fast - social media and employer brand
    • A lost generation?
  • November (5)
    • Ensuring people 'hear' what you are really saying
    • Stressed-out Britain
    • Unconscious bias
    • Occupy London - a positive form of conflict?
    • National Stress Awareness Day
  • October (2)
    • Recruitment gets the 3D effect
    • The importance of good judgment
  • September (6)
    • Listening to the unheard voice
    • The importance of self-presentation
    • The end of the graduate milkround?
    • Are great leaders born or made?
    • Mythbusting: Affirmations don't work - at least not for everyone
    • Are Gen Y corporate prisoners?
  • August (2)
    • When being at the top isn't a riotous affair
    • Pet ownership and personality
  • July (5)
    • The OPPrentice - the final
    • The OPPrentice - Who will win?
    • The OPPrentice - Episode 11
    • The OPPrentice - Episode 10
    • Mythbusting: you can tell a lot about someone from their handshake
  • June (7)
    • The psychology of social media
    • Senior leaders need people to lean on, too
    • The OPPrentice - Episode 8
    • Personality: measurement vs common sense
    • The OPPrentice - Episode 7
    • The OPPrentice - Episode 6
    • The OPPrentice - Episode 5
  • May (6)
    • The OPPrentice - Episode 4
    • The OPPrentice - Episode 3
    • Mythbusting: brainstorming doesn't work
    • The OPPrentice - Episode 2
    • The OPPrentice - Episode 1
    • Conflict in teams: what are we all so afraid of?
  • April (2)
    • Building better leaders in a multinational future
    • Mythbusting: in recruitment, eligibility does not mean suitability
  • March (1)
    • "You can't shake hands with a clenched fist"