Developing your virtual workforce
Working through the COVID-19 crisis with your newly remote employees, teams and leaders
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If you need help with remote working challenges, we’re here for you. The Myers-Briggs Company has expertise and experience delivering meaningful trainings in virtual contexts.
"The Virtual Insights workshop provided my team with knowledge to work together more efficiently. And improve our interpersonal relationships. It also helped me be a better team leader."
Jennifer Lindstrom, Pharm.D., Director of Pharmacy at Treasure Valley Hospital
Free-to-access practitioner resources
Your trainings might have to run a little differently, but don’t clear your calendar just yet – now is the time people need your expertise more than ever. Whether you’ve never held a virtual training or you’re converting activities for remote attendees, we’ve got your back with these resources:
- Tip sheet: Nurturing relationships in Corona times
- Tip sheet: Type tips for Leading in Corona times
- Tip sheet: Type tips for living and working in Corona times
- Tip sheet: 10 tips for delivering MBTI sessions virtually
- Tip sheet: Virtual delivery and MBTI type
- Tip sheet: MBTI preference tips for remote and virtual working
- Quick Guide: A guide to giving remote feedback
- Webinar: Webinar: The Psychology of Change
- Slides: Core Characters and everyday stress
- Whitepaper: Myers-Briggs type and working virtually
- Knowledge Bank: MBTI Step I Knowledge Bank
- Knowledge Bank: FIRO Knowledge Bank
- Infographic: Working from home E-I
- Research: How personality influences virtual teamwork
- Consultant helpdesk: email your questions to helpdesk@themyersbriggs.com
Recent webinars
Engaging virtual delivery
Dr. Martin Boult, Senior Director of Professional Services, joins us from our Australian office to share the knowledge and insight he has gained into online delivery over his career. Watch now if you need support adapting in-person classroom activities and successful events to the virtual world.
Personality and stress in a virtual world
John Hackston, Head of Thought Leadership, has been looking into your reactions to the Coronavirus crisis. Along with his findings, he’d like to discuss how stress links to personality type. Why do you feel stressed by different things from other people? How can you spot the signs of stress, even virtually? How do you escape the ‘stress zone’ and stay feeling ‘psychologically safe’?
Virtual teams and the critical factor of communication
Dr Rachel Cubas-Wilkinson, Senior Consultant at The Myers-Briggs Company considers the impact of remote working on team communication. She’ll explore the most crucial team elements that support high-quality communication and consider personal and organizational strategies that can improve the effectiveness of virtual teams.
How personality influences virtual teamwork
Helen Rayner, Lead Consultant at The Myers-Briggs Company shares outcomes of recent research on virtual teams. She explores the perceptions of working in virtual, co-located and combined teams and presents the five team scales which emerged, along with suggested tools and techniques to maintain team effectiveness when remote working.
Support for virtual working in organisations
Your new challenge is keeping your people productive and effective amid a fast-changing environment. Whether you’re helping managers who’ve never had virtual teams, or helping your workforce adapt to virtual communication, these tips and resources are for you:
- Quick guide: Raising awareness about stress
- Quick guide: Get more from email
- Quick guide: Type stressors and reactions
- Infographic: MBTI Type Heads and Stress Heads
- Infographic: Stressed at work? You’re not alone
- Infographic: Managing virtual teams
- Infographic: Get more out of remote working
- Blog: People need people!
Case studies
See how we’ve helped these organizations focus on virtual delivery and virtual working
Girls in Tech case study
Silicon Valley board improves communication to ignite success
Qlik case study
Going global: the role of virtual technology in MBTI® training
DBRS case study
Learn about a FIRO teambuilding program for virtual workers