Emotional intelligence
In-person development and the importance of human synchronization
Melissa Summer, The Myers-Briggs Company
What is human synchronization and why is it important for learning and development trainers, consultants and coaches to consider?
Introducing The Myers-Briggs Company Podcast
Melissa Summer, The Myers-Briggs Company
The Myers-Briggs Company is launching a new podcast about psychology, personality, work life, and how to get the best from life.
Were you asked if you wanted to go back to the office?
Kevin Wood, The Myers-Briggs Company
If not, you might be part of a hybrid strategy that’s about to fail.
Social contracts, returning to the office and retaining your people in the new hybrid workplace
Melissa Summer, The Myers-Briggs Company
As employees return to the office, they’re expecting more flexibility in their social contracts with employers. How can HR help?
Using interpersonal needs to make the hybrid model work for teams
Melissa Summer, The Myers-Briggs Company
Is it possible to get the best of both worlds with hybrid work?
The rise of the robots
John Hackston, Head of Research at OPP
A robot workforce with personality? Where does the MBTI framework fit in?
Insight Out
Richard Stockill - Product Manager at OPP
New Disney/Pixar film has fun with primary emotions and teaches some interesting psychology.
Five most common ways to alienate your staff
John Hackston - Head of R&D at OPP
The employment market seems to be improving, which is good news for jobseekers but not necessarily for employers; having more jobs available means that there are more opportunities for workers to leave. All the more important, then, that managers don’t give their people that extra incentive to start looking elsewhere. Here are five of the most common ways in which managers can (and unfortunately do) alienate their staff.
Using emotional judgement to reduce biases in decision-making
Paul Deakin - Business psychologist and psychometrics expert
People make decisions largely on the basis of intuition and emotion. We might like to think otherwise, but it’s true. Even the most logical and rational amongst us find our cognitive functioning heavily influenced by a broad range of both positive and negative emotions.
Does being true to yourself make you happier?
Gaby Walker - R&D Consultant at OPP
Many leaders leave much of their ‘true’ personality at home and try to present themselves at work in the way they think a leader should operate. Leaders absorb these ‘should’ models of leadership from how they see leaders behaving around them (for good or ill), as well as from hoping to emulate leaders generally held up as great: eg Churchill, Branson, etc. On top of this, over the years leadership courses have advocated different styles of leadership, each with its own advantages and disadvantages. Leaders can feel they should be all things to all men; but isn’t it better for leaders to just be themselves, natural and authentic, whether at home or in the workplace?