Despite its popularity, the personality test has been subject to sustained criticism by professional psychologists for over three decades.
Get Started for FREE
Sign up with Facebook Sign up with Twitter
I don't have a Facebook or a Twitter account
Your new post is loading...
Your new post is loading...
|
Billy R Bennett's curator insight,
May 8, 2013 9:50 PM
Management Jerks - very difficult people in the workplace - should be classified as Mis-Leaders. There have been interesting studies quantifying the costs. Here is a report on one of them. Coaching can yield results, so can education for the mis-leader and his or her team. However, if change does not come, then do not hide behind the "but he's so technically talented" excuse. The costs of the toxic mis-leader are far greater than peviously thought - now we know he or she can be contagious. Scary thought isn't it.
Billy R Bennett's curator insight,
January 3, 2013 4:01 PM
This article by Anil Giri addresses a problem SCRUM practictioners have experienced: A "too large" and "too distributed" team. However, rather than allowing the team to fail by stopping the project he suggests ways to work around the challenges and considerations to make next time. I like Anil's approach for a few reasons - first he's right. I say that not from experience, but also from the best team research. Co-location is the term for putting people in the same physical space to work as a team. In a previous article I noted the necessity of team members needing to build skills in a co-located team before doing too much work in virtual - remote member - project teams. Here are some other lessons he offers that can be adapted for any team based challenge:
Do you have a team challenge that you would like to be a focus of an article or blog response? Leave a comment or email me at Billy@pyramidodi.com |
Duped? Perhaps. Profiling instruments are never accurate tools.... and perhaps the MBTI is the worst of the lot. However, the danger more often lies in the person delivering the feedback than in the instrument. And it is not just a lack of knowledge about the instrument - a good professional should have at least some psychometric education beyond any single instrument.
Every profiling tool should be given with a warning: this is not a prescriptive tool but a indicative tool. It is like using a weather vane for predicting the weather - it may tell you about wind direction at that moment, but it will not predict the hurricane next week.
www.pyramidodi.com