Hi all,
Do any of you use personality tests (i.e. MBTI) in designing/teaching/coordinating your experiential course? And if so, how do you use them?
At my university, I coordinate the entrepreneurship minor, which is open to all 25000 students, of all majors, and also open to all other university students in Holland. During our 21-week minor, held twice a year, students form 15+ teams (usually 4 members per team), create business plans, launch, and generate revenue. Every Spring, I'm coordinating 15+ coaches and 25+ workshop speakers, all contributing on a volunteer basis.
For me, reducing the complexity of coordinating the minor has often pointed to two major tasks: forming the "right" teams, and preventing student team discontent. Thus, this semester, for the first time, I required all students to complete the MBTI (the Myers-Briggs Type Inventory). My impression is that team formation was far, far smoother when I introduced this innovation. I have also found that collection of this personality data has helped me in assessing and managing discontent on teams.
Overall, I'm interested in how other teachers and coordinators of experiential entrepreneurship courses are explicitly using personality tests in their course. I'm happy to compile and send responses to my inquiry, if you wish.
If wanting further explanatory background to the nature of my question, please visit: http://www.chsieh.com/entlistquestions.html
Regards,
-chihmao.
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dr. Chihmao Hsieh
Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship
Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Amsterdam
E2.21, Roetersstraat 11, 1018 WB Amsterdam
+31 20 525 4789 (T) | +1 734-274-5886 (from USA)
website: www1.fee.uva.nl/pp/CHsieh/ or www.chsieh.com
For current teams of the Entrepreneurship Minor, see http://bit.ly/uL1o1X
For prospective students of the Entrepreneurship Minor, see http://minorentrepreneurship.com
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