Just completed a 3-day Birkman Consultants Certification Training. It was not as grueling as the 5-day training I did some 8 years ago, but still quite mentally challenging! We had Bruce E. Gordon, a wonderful man with lots of experience from Mentor Matrix was our trainer. He’s also a good friend of the ministry. He patiently walked us through quite how we can coach a person through the Birkman Method. Thankful I made it. For sure, it made more sense this time round. This tool has helped me many times to understand myself, and how to interact and work more effectively with others. So I’m glad to have a chance to gain a deeper insight into how it works, and how it can help others.

One of the key things I’m reminded again as we started off this training was the emphasis that “No one is made better than another person; all of us are made to be unique & different by God.” My good friend, Pat had commented on my Facebook saying ‘that’s very mildly put… author of Myers-Briggs said: “Not one is better than the other, there are jerks in all types.” Hahaha… But very true!!

Anyways, I looking forward to meet with the first person I’ll be officially coaching on 1st week of November. But first, tomorrow I’ll be getting some practice by coaching my wife through her Birkman profile. =)