Now I’m disappointed I left!

Tom organised this as a team day out. Rather cleverly he emphasised that the day was going to be held in a pub (the Ram Inn @ Firle) and that food and booze and a country walk would be involved! Before we went we were emailed a form to fill out (Tom’s partner Hazel is a Myers-Briggs practitioner).

Once at the pub and settled into a rather cosy room, Hazel lead us through a series of exercises to understand the types and, more importantly, lead us in identifying our own character traits. She then handed out the results from the initial form and we compared and contrasted those with our own assessments. We broke out into groups composed of those with the same character types and ran through exercises to help us all understand how we prefer to communicate, how we learn best, what tasks we are naturally suited to.

For me it was less about the MB test itself and more about having a forum and a format that allowed an unusually open and honest conversation. We spend so much time together in the workplace, and yet we are a randomly selected, disparate group of people. We select our friends and partners (and learn to live with our families) but colleagues are just there and we have to choose how best to get along. This team day was really a helping hand in how to do this – for our own personal benefit, but also for that of the company (and as a by-product our clients).

I’m looking forward to seeing if / how it affects our day to day interactions but it certainly helped me view my colleagues in a new and illuminating way.

It seems like you had a really interesting day, but there’s no detail here as to what exactly happened. Was it just a MB analysis or much more than that? I’m very interested to know why the exercise came about, what you did and what the outcome was — it sounds amazing!

It was amazing to see how aware and professional the team is.

Healthy, helpful, funny, open and intelligent communication was the base to a structured analysis of how we can improve the way we work together.

Thank you to Hazel who facilitated the process. Brilliantly I might add.

I’ll never forget that day. It brought more knowledge to the team awareness.

I am looking forward to see the outcome of that day. I’ll apply the valuable lessons to my next email, on our next meeting or lunch together and they will be on my mind on the way to work.

I was very close to ENTPs. I am an ENTJ.

Thank you for your honesty. Thank you for sharing. I learn more about every one of you.

It was a historic day for NixonMcInnes.

And I thought us INFPs were cryptic…

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