Type Trainer Forumwith Hile Rutledge

• Greetings/Agenda Review• 2 Classic Type Trainer Challenges• Open Discussion• Wrap-up/Closing

Today’s Agenda

1. How do you handle the question: “Thinking and Feeling—I do them both. Why do I have to choose?”

2. What do you do when an experiential exercise does not produce the expected data?

Type Trainer Challenges

How do you handle the question: “Thinking and Feeling—I do them both. Why do I have to choose?”

Type Trainer Challenges

Why do I have to choose?

Type = Cognitive Hard-Wiring

Type

Behavior = What you do/how you act

Behavior

Type and Behavior are separate

Type Behavior

Some of our behaviors are driven by our Type preferences—the detailed

Sensor, the directive Judger.

Type and Behavior are separate

Type Behavior

Some of our preferences don’t manifest behaviorally

Type Behavior

And some of our behaviors require us to step outside of our preferences

Type and Behavior are separate

TypeBehavior

Maybe your life and job nicely overlap with your Type

Good News• Your life is likely comfortable and affirming•You show up as you and fit nicely within the expectations that surround you

Bad News• Type development is the lifelong effort to maintain our preferences while we grow into an awareness and then a competence with our non-preferences• There is little in your life that encourages you to grow, to stretch Typologically

When your life and Type overlap

Type Behavior

Maybe there is little overlap between your preferences and how you must behave/act

Bad News• So much of your life requires you to set your Type aside• Your life and roles likely feel expensive and draining

Good News• Type development calls for us to stretch beyond our preferences to inhabit and even develop skill in our non-preferences• The out-of-preference demands of your life encourage this growth

When your life and Type do NOT overlap

Type Behavior

Type is hard-wired, but behavior is a choice

Why do I have to choose?

Why do I have to choose?• “I do both” – of course you do, but Type is

about preference, not behavior• Sometimes you may even “do” more of a non-

preference than a preference• Knowing your preference allows for even better

self-management and more deliberate behavioral choices

Open Discussion

What do you do when an experiential exercise does not produce the expected data?

Type Trainer Challenges

“Describe this” (A $5 bill)

GROUP REPORTING SENSING (S) PREFERENCES GROUP REPORTING INTUITION (N) PREFERENCES

When Exercises Yield the Unexpected

• Keep your eye on the data as it is developing—so you know if it is “textbook” or unexpected• If unexpected, don’t discuss or process the

exercise until after you have taught the dichotomy to the group.

When Exercises Yield the Unexpected

• Then—with the group’s new knowledge in the room—disclose the exercise data and ask each group to read/present its own output• Once both groups’ data have been presented,

ask the whole group what differences they see—in both the charts AND the presentation of data they just saw and heard

When Exercises Yield the Unexpected

• Groups will often see/hear differences that are not obvious to you upon first glance• Some groups will admit that what they put on

the chart was NOT their first response, but what they thought was “expected”, which beautifully illustrates the tension between Type and overriding behavioral expectations

When Exercises Yield the Unexpected

• A Type preference shrinking into the behavioral pattern of the opposite group is an interesting indication that the culture has a clear Type majority and that behavioral expectations are strong.• F’s project objectivity• I’s push themselves to connect and engage• P’s drive to closure and organization

“Describe this” (A $5 bill)

GROUP REPORTING SENSING (S) PREFERENCES GROUP REPORTING INTUITION (N) PREFERENCES

Open Discussion

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