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{An effective TypeWatching workshop requires organized data and thought about what design and which exercises will work for your audience.  It is important for you to be able to easily retrieve your data, especially when a client wants a follow-up event or workshop.}

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{Enter scores into the OKA TypeWatching ToolKit Data Entry Form (see File.) This will give you the ability to easily organize and analyze your workshop participants and select and structure experiential exercises.}
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{Complete a Type Table (see Reports) for workshop participants.  The Type Table is essential for you to design a successful event.  You will want to analyze the Type Table to determine the distribution of preferences, four-letter types, and Temperaments.  Review the Type Table to identify the learning style of the group, based on the overall group or modal type, and consider the strengths and weaknesses you may have in training this group based on <U>your<N> type.  See the table entitled, "Matching Your Type to Your Client's Type", in the booklet that accompanies this program.}
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{Select a workshop design and appropriate experiential exercises to meet the overall goals stated by the client.  (See Workshop and Applications for options.)  A variety of factors will influence your selection of designs and exercises, including number of participants, diversity of type, strength of preferences, your own experience and level of comfort, the group's openness or skepticism, and time allotted for the workshop.}
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{Keep in mind that the designs and exercises you choose should match the participant's level of understanding of type.  This is particularly important if your group has mixed levels of experience and understanding.  For example, if you are working with a group, some of whom have had an introductory TypeWatching workshop before and some of whom have not, it will be difficult to use advanced exercises.  It is important to bring all participants up to the same stage of awareness before moving to a more complex stage.  The exercise stage notation at the top of each exercise gives you guidance in matching exercises to audience readiness.}
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{Be careful when selecting exercises, either from this program or your own, to not choose topics that may be inflammatory.  For example, one trainer asked a group of T's and F's to discuss criteria to accomplish an organizational downsizing.  This became very emotional and problematic as several participants had just been downsized.  There are more obvious topics to be cautious with, such as politics, religion or abortion.}
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{In general, stick with exercises in which you have developed some comfort.  Once these become more routine, you can begin to experiment with new ones.}
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{Using handouts to accompany your exercises to reinforce learnings is a good idea (see Aids and Handouts).  We offer suggestions as to which ones might be useful in each of the exercises.}
