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Build the Workforce of Tomorrow with the SuperStrong^™ Assessment

The SuperStrong assessment, based on the gold-standard Strong Interest Inventory^® assessment, is a mobile-enabled, self-interpretable tool that takes 5–7 minutes to complete and is delivered through our VitaNavis^™ platform. It can be used throughout your organization to help students choose the right education and career paths for their particular interests.

In this 45-minute webinar (30-min presentation and 15-min Q&A), we will show you:

• How interest and personality data are being used to help schools overcome organizational issues, such as student retention and engagement
• How customer needs led to the development of the SuperStrong assessment
• The science behind the assessment, which ensures the accuracy of the results
• Real examples of ways advisers, counselors, and teachers are using the SuperStrong tool to drive student success

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Career Exploration, Career Development, Academic Advising, Student Retention, Student Engagement, Interests & Personality

Ask an Expert: Challenging and Unique Strong Interest Inventory^® Profiles

This webinar will offer practical guidelines and advice you can rely on when you're not sure what to make of your student or client results. You'll learn:

• How to work with Elevated, Flat, Opposing Theme and All-Moderate profiles
• What it means when the scales on the Strong Interest Inventory^® assessment don't line up
• Interpretation strategies for work with GLBTQ clients and students
• Practical tools for working with challenging results
• And more!

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Career Development, Career Exploration, Retention, Academic Advising

Ask an Expert: Getting Answers to Your MBTI^® Questions

Do you have questions about the MBTI® assessment? Do you need advice on how to use the MBTI assessment in certain situations? Are you curious about certain advanced type concepts? Or have you ever wondered about specific details of the MBTI instrument or MBTI type theory but were too embarrassed to ask? Well, now is your opportunity to have your questions answered by MBTI^® expert Patrick Kerwin!

In this webinar we’ll be doing something new:

• The first half of the webinar will be focused on providing answers to questions that are submitted in advance by you and other webinar participants.
• The second half will be focused on providing answers to questions that get asked in real time during the webinar.

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Personal & Professional Development, Career Development, Career Counseling, Career Exploration, Leadership Development, Coaching

Ask an Expert: Strategies & Overview of the Strong Interest Inventory^® Assessment

Are you a new Strong practitioner? Are you looking for a new tool to help your students or clients explore careers? Or are you simply looking for a refresher on the tool? Join us for this webinar as our expert provides an overview of the Strong Interest Inventory^® assessment and how it can help with career selection. You will benefit from this presentation by learning:

• What sets the Strong tool apart from other interest assessments
• Interpretation tips and strategies
• Why the scales have been updated and what has changed
• How the iStartStrong™ Report differs from the Strong Profile
• Which Strong reports are appropriate in different situations

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Career Development, Career Exploration, Retention, Academic Advising

Ask an Expert: Leading with Style: Getting the Best from Your MBTI^® Type

Leadership is a hot topic everywhere. But how do we define leadership? And how does leadership apply to people who really want to follow, or those who want to lead their own life? In this webinar, you’ll:

• Examine different ways of expressing leadership
• Discover how type dynamics influences leadership
• Explore what different types naturally gravitate toward when leading, and what they’re likely challenged by when leading
• Hear real-life examples of people with different MBTI® types and how they lead others as well as their own life

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Personal & Professional Development, Career Development, Career Counseling, Career Exploration, Leadership Development, Coaching

Ask an Expert: From Preferences to Successes: Using MBTI^® Type for Student & Employee Success

One of the most valuable and useful lessons that MBTI^® type teaches people is this: One size does not fit all. And yet many of the traditional techniques and strategies designed to help students and employees succeed use the exact opposite approach—and as a result, they often have the exact opposite effect! In this webinar you’ll learn type-specific tips and techniques for counseling, coaching, and supporting students and employees on topics including:

• Getting the best from your communication style in a class or on a team
• Using type to handle relationships with instructors or colleagues
• Capitalizing on your type to write papers and documents
• Using your type to manage your time

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Personal & Professional Development, Career Development, Career Counseling, Career Exploration, Leadership Development, Coaching

Ask an Expert: Coaching for the Millennial Generation

What makes the millennial generation different from those of previous generations? Are you seeing a shift in the way they approach career choices? Why is it important to understand the current research on generational differences? This session will enable you to:

• Appreciate generational differences and their impact on career choices and career development
• Identify the key skills millennials will need to develop to be successful in the workplace
• Learn some tips for communicating and coaching across generations
• Leverage the Myers-Briggs^® assessment in your coaching sessions to help millennials communicate effectively across generations and make effective career choices
• Pinpoint some key strategies for engaging millennials in the workplace

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Personal & Professional Development, Career Development, Career Counseling, Career Exploration, Leadership Development, Coaching

Ask an Expert: Harnessing generational and gender differences to develop leadership skills with the MBTI^® tool

What makes today’s students different from those of previous generations? Are you seeing a shift in the way they approach career choices? Why is it important to understand the current research on women in the workplace? This session will enable you to:

• Understand generational differences and their impact on career choices and career development
• Discuss key skills needed to advance into a leadership role and dispel some MBTI myths related to this topic
• Get an introduction on how Myers Briggs® insights can play a role in helping students better understand their strengths, make more effective career choices, and pinpoint a career path that aligns with their personality preferences
• Establish a scorecard to demonstrate the success of your career planning program

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Personal & Professional Development, Career Development, Career Counseling, Career Exploration, Leadership Development, Coaching

Ask An Expert: Students, Stress, and MBTI^® Type

Prepping for exams. Lining up internships. Looking for a job. Interviewing. These activities, as well as many others, can provoke stress in your students. Come learn how the MBTI^® assessment can help your students—and you—successfully navigate stressful times! In this workshop, you’ll:

• Discover common stress triggers for each MBTI personality type
• Explore how different types typically react to stress
• Identify type-specific ways to avoid getting stressed out
• Examine real-life student stories of stress events and their connection to type

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Stress Management, Personal and Professional Development, Career Development, Coaching

Ask An Expert: Exploring MBTI^® Type Dynamics and Relationships

Back by popular demand! Just in time for Valentine’s Day, this one and a half-hour webinar will look at the what and how of truly connecting with people we care about by using Myers-Briggs^® (MBTI^®) assessment results with:

• Loved ones
• Friends and colleagues
• Students and clients
• Our opposite types

Recommended Reading (Optional)
Resources to help you learn more about the webinar topic:
Introduction to Type^® and Communication

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Personal and Professional Development, Communication, Relationships, Interpretation strategies, Assessment overview

Ask An Expert: Making It Simple: MBTI^® and Strong Tools in Career Counseling and Academic Advising

How are you using the Myers-Briggs^® (MBTI^®) and Strong Interest Inventory^® assessments to guide your students in their career development? In this one and a half-hour webinar, we will show you some “how-tos” for using the MBTI “heart of type” and the iStartStrong^™ Report to:

• Help students expand their knowledge beyond what they already know about themselves
• Explore academic majors and career fields
• Identify students who need full Strong and MBTI assessments

Recommended Reading (Optional)
Resources to help you learn more about the webinar topic:
Where Do I Go Next?
Introduction to Type^® in College
Introduction to Type^® and Careers

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Career development, Career exploration, Career counseling, Academic advising, Interpretation strategies

Ask An Expert: Measuring the Success of Your Career Development Program

How do you prove you are making an impact on your students’ career development? What can you measure to prove you are making a difference? Based on her own experience launching a career development program for a Fortune 500 company, in this 1.5 hour webinar Saundra Stroope covers the following topics to help make your program a success:

• Applying established business career development practices to your work with students
• Understanding the needs assessment process and how to customize your program design
• Strategically aligning programs with students’ needs
• Using the Strong Interest Inventory^® assessment to align personal interests with a career path
• Using pre- and post-program surveys and follow-up counseling conversations to evaluate behavior change
• Measuring the overall success of your program

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Career development, Performance Improvement

Ask An Expert: The Strong Assessment: Practical Interpretation Strategies

In this one and a half-hour webinar, you will get an updated overview of the Strong Interest Inventory^® assessment covering the following topics:

• The RIASEC framework and career counseling
• Using the Basic Interest Scales in academic advising
• Exploring O*NET™ through the Occupational Scales
• "Back-dooring" flat profiles through the Personal Style Scales

Recommended Reading (Optional)
Resources to help you learn more about the webinar topic:
Where Do I Go Next?
Strong Interest Inventory® User’s Guide

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Career development, Career exploration, Career counseling, Academic advising, Interpretation strategies, Assessment overview

Ask an Expert: Finding Best-Fit MBTI^® Type

This webinar describes various ways of clarifying clients’ results in a feedback session:

• Using different type table lenses
• Asking questions that lead to clarity
• Reading between the lines
• Putting type aside

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Career Development, Career Exploration; Coaching, Interpretation Strategies

Ask an Expert: Is Professional Networking Just for Extraverts?

Job seekers of every MBTI^® type can benefit from networking. For some it comes naturally. For others it’s a learned skill. This webinar explores:

• Using one’s strengths in networking
• Developing strategies to overcome challenges
• Learning different networking languages
• Adjusting job search expectations in today’s economy

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Networking, Career Development, Communication, Personal and Professional Development

Ask an Expert: New MBTI^® & Strong Products for Enhanced Interpretation Sessions

This webinar introduces new and/or updated Strong and MBTI^® reports and explores new ways to use some of the products you already rely on:

• Strong and MBTI^® Career Report: Introduces the newly updated report; explores where the occupations come from and using the report with O*NET^™
• MBTI^®Complete College Report: Introduces a new report expressly for college students, generated from the online assessment with the built-in interactive feedback session
• MBTI^® Step II^™ reports: Explains how to use the Profile and the Interpretive Report with college students

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Career Development, Personal and Professional Development, Career Exploration, Interpretation Strategies, and Coaching

Ask an Expert: MBTI^® Type Dynamics and Relationships

Want better relationships? This webinar shows how understanding and applying type dynamics can help you communicate more effectively and thus improve your relationships with the people in your life, including:

• Supervisors and direct reports
• Friends and colleagues
• Teachers and students
• Those you are counseling and coaching
• Your opposite type

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Personal and Professional Development, Communication, Coaching

Ask an Expert: MBTI^® Type and Stress

As your students approach the end of the school year, their already full personal and academic lives get further saddled with holidays, finals, shopping, family, travel, and more. Any one of those on its own can lead to stress—and even more so when they happen all at once! Come learn how MBTI^® personality type insights can help you support your students through the end-of-the-year stress. In this webinar, you’ll:

• Discover the basic mechanics of what happens to personality type under stress
• Recognize the type-related signs that someone is heading toward stress
• Identify common stress reactions by type
• Learn techniques for helping your students move through stress and back to equilibrium

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Stress Management, Personal and Professional Development, Career Development, Coaching

Ask an Expert: MBTI^® Type, Learning Style, and Student Retention

How can we improve retention of high-risk MBTI^® types in college? This webinar explores:

• Which types are least likely to persist in college and why
• What contributes most to student retention
• How finding a good fit between type and campus culture can help
• How to help students develop a sense of purpose
• How teaching and learning styles relate to type

Retention, Career Development, Career Exploration, Learning Styles

Ask an Expert: Using the iStartStrong^™ Report in Academic Advising

How many times have you heard a college student say, “I don’t know where to start!”? This webinar offers practical steps for using the iStartStrong^™ Report to help students:

• Identify their emerging interests and how they relate to majors
• Explore majors and career fields that fit their personality preferences
• Expand their options beyond what they already know about
• Learn how to focus when they need to
• Determine whether they need a full Strong interpretation

Academic Advising, Career Exploration, Coaching

Ask an Expert: Revisiting the Strong Interest Inventory^® Assessment: What's New?

Whether you're an experienced Strong practitioner or looking for a new tool to help your students explore careers, you will benefit from this presentation. You'll learn:

• What sets the Strong tool apart from other interest assessments
• How and why the scales have been updated, and why this matters to your students
• Which occupations are new to this revision and which have been updated
• How the iStartStrong™ Report compares to the Strong Profile, and when and why to use each report
• And more!

Career Development, Career Exploration, Leadership and Coaching

Ask an Expert: Building Communication Skills Using MBTI^® Type Strategies

Poor communication skills can derail a career search in no time. Fortunately, the MBTI assessment is an effective tool for ensuring that that doesn't happen—for you or your students. In this webinar you'll learn how to:

• Pick up on and respond to type cues from others
• Make the best impression during a job interview by recognizing and knowing how to use different type-specific communication styles
• Use type strategies to get along better with colleagues, supervisors, direct reports, family, and friends
• Motivate your students by "speaking their language" during your counseling sessions
• And more!

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Career Development, Career Exploration, Leadership and Coaching

Ask an Expert: Combining Strong and MBTI^® Results in Career Counseling

If you have missed this webinar before, this is your chance to attend once more. While the MBTI and Strong Interest Inventory® assessments deliver valuable insights individually, using their results together provides even deeper insight and greater self-understanding for your students. In this webinar you'll learn:

• How the "heart of type" links to the Strong themes
• How the Strong Personal Styles relate to MBTI type
• How to match occupations and college majors from both assessments for more meaningful interpretations
• When and how to use the Strong and MBTI combined career reports
• And more!

Career Development, Career Exploration, Leadership and Coaching

Ask an Expert: Interpreting Challenging Strong and MBTI^® Results

This webinar will offer practical guidelines and advice you can rely on when you're not sure what to make of your students' results. You'll learn:

• What it means when the scales on the Strong assessment don't line up.
• How you can help students who report a flat Strong profile or who can't verify their MBTI type
• What to do if your students' MBTI type doesn't "fit" the work environments identified in their Strong results.
• And more!

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Career Development, Career Exploration, Leadership and Coaching

Ask an Expert: Exploring Careers Using the Strong and MBTI^® Assessments

This webinar will provide you with an in-depth look at the career exploration puzzle and how all the pieces fit together. You'll learn how to:

• Use the MBTI tool to help your students discover the work that will motivate them the most
• Use the Strong Interest Inventory® tool to help your students determine their ideal work environment
• Evaluate the information presented in—and explore possibilities suggested by—your students' assessment results
• Valuable and time-saving tips on using O*NET to make the best of your counseling time
• Know which assessments and reports to use in different situations—e.g., the MBTI® College Profile vs. the MBTI® Career Report, and the iStartStrong™ report vs. the Strong Profile.
• And more!

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Career Development, Career Exploration, Leadership and Coaching

Ask an Expert: Strong and MBTI^® Career Counseling Strategies for Adult Clients (Advanced Topic)

In this Q&A webinar, our expert, Judith Grutter, MS, NCC, MCC, will teach Career Counseling strategies using the Strong Interest Inventory^® and MBTI^® assessments. These strategies are geared for using with adult clients and the pace of the webinar is an advanced topic for seasoned Strong and MBTI users.

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Career Development, Career Exploration, Leadership and Coaching

Ask an Expert: The "Other Side" of MBTI^® Type—Enrichment or Sabotage?

Most people associate type with the four letter code that they get when they take an MBTI® assessment. The "other side" of type—the letters not in our code—can sabotage us or be the source of incredible enrichment. In this webinar, learn how to: 1) help your students or clients to experience the core of their type at its very best 2) Learn to consciously develop the less preferred characteristics of their type in response to changing job market needs 3) Develop their less preferred functions to enhance leisure and retirement activities 4) Manage responses to stress.

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Career Development, Career Exploration, Personal Development

Start Your Students out Strong with iStartStrong™

Announcing the newest member of the Strong product family – iStartStrong. Listen to this Q&A webinar with leading career expert and iStartStrong author Judith Grutter. Take the opportunity to learn about this exciting new self-service report based on scores from the gold standard career assessment tool, the Strong Interest Inventory® assessment, and see how you can add it to your tool kit for student success.

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Career Development, Career Exploration

Ask an Expert: Using Type to Develop Interviewing and Job Search Skills

During this Q&A webinar, our expert, Judith Grutter, will define MBTI^® preferences and show you how to apply type to develop both interviewing and job search skills.

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Career Development, Career Exploration, Personal Development

Ask an Expert: Combining the Strong and MBTI assessments in Career Counseling

Our expert, Judith Grutter, covers an overview of both the MBTI^® and Strong Interest Inventory^® assessments and how to use them in a career counseling setting. Gain insights from case studies as well as from a review of the combined report.

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Career Development, Career Exploration, Coaching

Ask an Expert: Introduction to the Strong Interest Inventory^® Assessment

Gain familiarity with one of the most respected and widely used career planning instruments in the world. Our expert, Judith Grutter, provides an overview of the Strong Interest Inventory^® assessment and how to apply it during your career counseling and academic advising sessions with tips and case studies. The content serves as a great refresher on the instrument for those already familiar.

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Career Development, Career Exploration