Uncovering The Secret History Of Myers-Briggs. To obtain a hard copy of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI®), the most popular personality test in the world, one must first spend $1,695 on a week-long certification program run by the Myers & Briggs Foundation of Gainesville, Florida.
This year alone, there have been close to 100 certification sessions in cities ranging from New York to Pasadena, Minneapolis, Portland, Houston, and the Foundation’s hometown of Gainesville, where participants get a $200 discount for making their way south to the belly of the beast. It is not unusual for sessions to sell out months in advance. People come from all over the world to get certified. In New York last April, there were twenty-five aspiring MBTI practitioners in attendance. There was a British oil executive who lived for the half the year under martial law in Equatorial Guinea. I was in an unusual position that week: Attending the certification program had not been my idea. I said hello to the woman sitting next to me. I am wrong. 5 Ways To Prepare Your Employees For 360-Degree Feedback. 360-degree employee reviews, which gather feedback from an employee’s manager, co-workers, and direct reports, may seem like an obvious win.
Organizations can use the feedback to build a more productive workforce by recalibrating worker behavior. But all too often companies fail to communicate the goals of the feedback effectively. The result? Employees enter the process with a lot of uncertainty. To ensure a successful 360 feedback process, it's important to prepare your employees for what’s to come. Here are five important steps that will prepare your employees for their next 360-degree review: 1. Remember this conversation Alice in Wonderland had with the Cheshire Cat? The Case Against Performance Reviews - Derek Thompson. Workers hate evaluations.
Managers hate evaluations. Is there any salvaging this sorry ritual? If you hate performance reviews—and the "if" in that clause is ceremonial; you do hate them—don't blame your boss. Blame the Wei Dynasty. Historians aren't sure who officially invented the annual ritual of grading our colleagues' performances (technically, a post-hunt slap on the back from a Neanderthal would qualify), but one of the earliest examples of formal appraisal comes from China's Wei Dynasty, around 230 AD, when an Imperial Rater invented a nine-grade system to evaluate members of the official family. Eighteen centuries and several million futile laments later, performance reviews are alive and well. Criticize Me, Please "We'd rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism," wrote Norman Vincent Peale, the author of the 1962 book The Power of Positive Thinking.
But what about workers who readily say they want to get better at their jobs—maybe they'd appreciate a critical nudge? Super-star programmers: Difference engine: Wired for speed.