Breckenridge Type Indicator™ (BTI™)

The BTI™ is a psychometrically validated assessment tool designed to help identify key elements of managers’ and staff members’ personality using the nine Enneagram personality types. The BTI™ can be used for both personal and professional applications, but it is especially effective when used as the basis for coaching, leadership development, or teambuilding exercises. Organizations are collective-cultural entities that are led, managed, and changed one person at a time. Studies have shown that people who possess emotional intelligence and self-knowledge are often twice as successful as those who possess only high levels of intellectual intelligence. A person’s level of self-awareness and self-control is an indicator of their openness to feedback, change, and their ability to succeed professionally, especially when under stress. In your professional life, a better understanding of your personality using the BTI™ will help identify decision-making bias and predictable errors in judgment in both strategic and tactical issues. When used in your personal life, the BTI™ allows you to identify underlying patterns of behavior that frustrate and undermine healthy relationships with friends and family members.

The BTI™ is a B-Level instrument that requires training and qualification to administer. People who have a degree in psychology or counseling, and have had psychometric coursework are qualified to use the BTI™. People who have been qualified to use the MBTI® instrument, Majors PT-Elements™, Majors PTI™, Golden™ Personality Type Profiler, or other instruments where the coursework included training in psychometrics and test interpretation; and who have a personal knowledge of the theoretical model of the Breckenridge Enneagram and the psychometric properties of the BTI as found in Mark Bodnarczuk’s book, The Breckenridge Type Indicator™ (BTI™) Professional Users Manual are qualified to use the BTI™. Copies of The Breckenridge Type Indicator™ (BTI™) Professional Users Manual are available at no charge by e-mailing info@breckenridgeinstitute.com.

All other people must complete the BTI™ certification program in order to administer the instrument to others. The BTI™ qualifying program combines the convenience of a self-paced web-based learning environment, with one-on-one instruction and mentoring sessions by telephone. The on-line BTI™ qualifying program includes:

• Interactive web-based modules that cover the history, theory, report structure, APA standards, and the key elements of how to interpret the BTI™
• Two one-on-one telephone mentoring sessions that are focused on how to administer the instrument, interpret the results, and help others verify their personality type.
• Complete the BTI™ and review your results with your instructor.
• Have one colleague complete the BTI™ and work with your instructor to prepare their feedback sessions.
• Complete an on-line exam composed of multiple choice and true-false questions.
• On-going access to the Breckenridge Institute® continuing education program and supporting materials.

Completion of the certification program will give you access to administering the BTI™ 24X7 anywhere in the world where you have an Internet connection. Completion of the BTI™ certification program also gives you access to the Breckenridge Relationship Indicator™ (BRI™).

Tuition for the on-line qualifying course is $595

Business Applications

The Breckenridge Institute® uses the BTI™ instrument in qualifying programs and publicly available workshops in combination with Michael Goldberg’s book, The 9 Ways of Working. Here’s an excerpt from the back cover of Michael’s book. “The 9 Ways of Working introduces the nine personality types of the Enneagram, a classic, highly powerful approach to work and life. Each of the Enneagram’s nine types has a distinct worldview that determines how they think, what they want, and why they act the way they do. You’ll recognize the personality types of the people you work with – colleagues, clients, bosses – as well as your own…. Drawing on twenty-five years of teaching and consulting, Michael Goldberg’s rich descriptions catch the ‘aha!’ of each style with insightful anecdotes and real-life

stories. He shows how each style is likely to connect with or miss the others, what kind of leadership is right for certain situations, and how each style makes important decisions and gets work done. You’ll see the special gifts and talents of each style, their limits and blind spots, and when they will shine and when they will wilt. The 9 Ways of Working is packed with practical tips and cautions for each style and for working with each style.” The 9 Ways of Working is available world-wide on websites like Amazon.com or at your local bookstore. The BTI™ can be used for the business applications listed below. In addition, data from the BTI™ can be mapped to the results of the Breckenridge Culture Indicator™ (BCI™) to: a) establish the “fit” of key players within an organization’s culture, and b) quantitatively assess the distribution of an organization’s leadership and management bench strength. Employee Development Culture Change Performance Improvement Team Building Executive Coaching Changes in Leadership or Management Conflict Resolution Succession Management For more information or to sign up for our qualifying programs, please contact the Breckenridge Institute at info@breckenridgeinstitute.com.

Personality in Context^®