Personal Strengths Certificate Program
Instructor: Jari Holland Buck
In life and in our communities, we lead with our personal strengths. How many of us have ever had the opportunity to actually learn the nature of those strengths and how to effectively use them? We invite you to explore this new personal landscape through the use of an instrument called the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®). While many psychological instruments are designed to measure mental illness, the MBTI® is a "well person" instrument, developed by, with and for healthy people. It can be profoundly useful for helping us understand and improve human relations in communities. To get along and communicate well with others, we have to understand ourselves as well as those with whom we interact.
This program is a personality inventory based on the theories of Carl Jung. The indicator is non-judgmental and allows us to gain an understanding of our personal preferences, particularly with respect to energy sources, information gathering, decision-making and our lifestyle blueprint.
This information is then organized into a pattern represented by four words, and ultimately, four letters. This pattern allows us to understand our own motivation and that of our neighborhood and government partners better and teaches us how to adapt our communications styles to match others' preferences, to better serve our communities.
Join us as we learn and share information about ourselves and others. This certificate program focuses on personal development in local community service.
Over the five two-hour sessions you will:
- Identify with your MBTI® type;
- Begin to share a common language system with which you may discuss similarities and differences with others;
- Understand that character traits are neither positive or negative in and of themselves but rather situational in their application and effect;
- Experience at least one "ah, ha!" about yourself;
- Recognize personal strengths/weaknesses;
- Distinguish what you want to do/change as a individual;
- Know and practice application of new behaviors to old problems;
- Practice new behavior(s) with one other person;
- Understand what you can do to increase participation and support of community members;
- Know how to utilize strengths and work around weaknesses;
- Recognize the value and role of a translator;
- Practice "focus on the customer" in a sales exercise;
- Validate the steps that are needed to effectively interact with all types;
- Incorporate the knowledge of own preferences with leadership tendencies and follower desires;
- Possess options in the resolution of conflict and the communication of ideas; and
- Experience the joy of being appreciated and validated for who you are!
Instructor: Jari Holland Buck
