BEST Meets MiRo
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EmailByron Batten, Programme Officer for Adults & Communities, has been working with the Change Lead for A&C Mike Fisher; to see how BEST can support the changes happening in the directorate.
Part of this development involved Byron taking on a new piece of training that will support employees during the directorate restructure. The training, MiRo Behavioural Mode Assessment, ran by MiRo Psychometric Limited but licensed through Capita, gives individuals a clearer understanding of the different behaviours they use in their working day. These modes of behaviours are Driving, Energising, Analysing and Organising.
With this understanding you can decide to:
- spend more time in your preferred mode e.g. developing your role at work to include more work that will need an energising skill set.
- understand how to work with others who behave differently to you
- take time to develop a skill or skills that you lack, e.g. Analysing skills
To qualify for the practitioner accreditation qualification that enables you to run a programme, Byron attended an intensive one day (usually two days) training session with an examination at the end. Byron said, “I was on tenterhooks waiting for the text on that Monday evening, to say that I had passed. Fortunately when I checked my texts early Tuesday morning, the good news had come through - I had passed”.
Byron took the behavioural assessment himself before the training to identify his own behaviour modes of working. He was pleased to find out his lead behaviour matched the behaviour he had thought he functioned in, organising.
Byron added, “The whole experience has been very enlightening. I now know where to target my own development and also how to work with people who predominately use a different behaviour mode. Using this tool in BEST, I believe, will really help people to manage better many of the changes and challenges the Directorate is going through. It will be invaluable in training, team building and coaching alike”.
