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Interior Health Authority of BC Improves Communication and Team Building with the MBTI^® Instrument

The Interior Health Authority of BC incorporated the MBTI^® assessment into its leadership development and team building programs as a communication tool. Learn how the organization created an environment of increased self awareness and awareness of others. View the case study >>

Now Available — Type and Training: Designing and Delivering an Effective MBTI^® Workshop by Donna Dunning

Boost your MBTI^® training effectiveness with this new guide from the Type Practitioner Series. Type and Training delivers a powerful, step-by-step guide to creating an effective workshop. The guide also provides ways to accommodate every type's preferred learning style to optimize the impact of the workshop. Learn more >>

Now Available — Type and Culture: Using the MBTI^® Instrument in International Applications by Linda K. Kirby, Elizabeth Kendall and Nancy J. Barger

In Type and Culture, three highly experienced international trainers — Linda Kirby, Elizabeth Kendall, and Nancy Barger — give practioners insight into using the MBTI^® tool wherever they may find themselves. The authors include ideas on how to work within different cultures. In addition to examples from their many years of experience with global companies, they also present data on type distribution in different countries, such as India, Korea, Japan, Italy, the Netherlands, and many more.

Type and Culture will improve the cultural application of the MBTI^® tool for experienced practitioners as well as provide a thorough introduction to new MBTI^® users. Learn more >>

Special Offer

Take advantage of our introductory offer:
SAVE 20% on all orders of Type and Training and Type and Culture. Hurry, this offer ends January 30, 2007.

Reference promotion code TPS071 to take advantage of this offer.

New Team Building Web Cast Featuring Target

How do you create healthy teams in dynamic work environments? Retail powerhouse Target knows how.

In this live Web cast event, CPP, Inc. will take you "behind the bull's-eye" to learn how Target uses team building as a tool for managing teams in the dynamic world of retail. Featuring guest speakers Krista Peterson, Director of Organizational Effectiveness for Target, and Rick Packer of The Packer Group, "Creating Healthy Teams in Dynamic Environments" will also present proven methods for addressing dysfunction to create healthy teams.

To register for this FREE Web cast, click here >>

More "Resources and Remedies" for Stress

In our December issue of the CPP Insider, we shared some "Resources and Remedies" for Thinking and Feeling Types to help manage holiday stress. Though the holidays are behind us now, stress can continue to plague us— however it affects Sensing and Intuitive Types differently. People with a Sensing preference work more naturally with facts in a sequential fashion, while people with an Intuitive preference tend to be future-oriented and focus on new options and possibilities. Here's a quick tip sheet to help Sensing and Intuitive Types when "in the grip" of stress.

Sensing Types

1. Ignore or avoid distractions while working
2. Organize and accomplish small projects
3. Ask for help with priorities
4. Ask for help in identifying possibilities and options
5. Get away and spend time alone in a pleasant Sensing environment

Intuitive Types

1. Schedule in "unscheduled" time
2. Accept help with overwhelming details
3. Set boundaries
4. Plan or make lists to avoid unwelcome surprises
5. Prioritize tasks and delegate to others

*Excerpted from In the Grip: Understanding Type, Stress, and the Inferior Function. To discover the effects of chronic stress on one's personality, click here >>

Did You Know? Enter for Your Chance to Win a FREE Introduction to Type^® Library!

You may know the modal type for the US is ISFJ, but do you know the modal type for the UK, or Japan? Take part in this month's CPP Insider quiz to test your global type knowledge and for your chance to win a Type Practitioner Library —; a $126 value. Take the Quiz >>

APT International XVII Biennial Conference: Taking Type Into the 21st Century

July 11-15, 2007
Sheraton Baltimore City Center
Baltimore, MD

"Personality Type from Jung to Neurology" will be the keynote theme of the 2007 conference of the Association for Psychological Type International. Co-sponsored by CPP, Inc. and HirshWorks, LLC, the conference will include eight daylong symposia in the areas of careers, counseling and psychotherapy, education, health care, organization development, multicultural issues, religion and spirituality, and type theory. There will also be ten pre-conference workshops, three panels featuring renowned type experts, and some 40 concurrent sessions.

One of the keynote addresses will describe the fundamental framework of the new MBTI^® Step III™ tool, which builds on Isabel Myers' unpublished research. Other conference topics include the neuroscience of personality, psychological type and innovation, coaching for generational differences, and the use of type in virtual environments. For the full program, click here >>

APT International is the only international membership organization for professional users of the Myers Briggs Type Indicator^® assessment, and related personality type instruments.

2007 Conferences & Events

• Training 2007 - February 26-28, 2007
• NACE 2007 - May 29-June 1, 2007
• ASTD 2007 - June 3-6, 2007
• SHRM 2007 - June 24-27, 2007
• APT 2007 - July 11-15, 2007
• APA 2007 - August 17-20, 2007
• MBTI^® Workshops - Ongoing 2007

Let us know if you're going to be at any of these shows — we'd love to meet you there. And if you have recommendations for other shows we should attend, we welcome your suggestions. Email us at cpp_insider@cpp.com.

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