Managing People: Teammates, Advisors, Instructors

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Managing People Teammates, Advisors, Instructors
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Understanding Personality

• Personality Tests do NOT put people in boxes or
  completely define people.
• They help you learn where you need to grow
  develop your areas of weakness
• They do provide a way to think about how people
  work in general
• what they value
• what their strengths/weakness are
• what motivates and energizes them
• how they make decisions or choose actions

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Background on Myers-Briggs Temperament Testing

• Myers completed her book The Myers-Briggs Type
  Indicator in 1958 and published it in 1962,
  though Educational Testing Service had been using
  her questionnaire, the MBTI, for some years doing
  personality research in numerous colleges and
  high schools around the country
• Temperament is a configuration of inclinations,
  while Character is a configuration of habits.
• Character is disposition, Temperament
  pre-disposition.

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Myers-Briggs uses 4 major divisions

• Extroversion and Introversion (E/I)
• Intuition and Sensing (N/S)
• Thinking and Feeling (T/F)
• Judging and Perceiving (J/P)

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Extroversion/Introversion

• The categories do not necessarily reflect your
  behavior in public
• They reflect your preferences and what
  energizes you
• Introverts can be very sociable but will be
  exhausted afterwards
• Extroverts can work alone but will crave people
  time

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Sensing/Intuiting

• Sensation "sensing" (S) to mean paying attention
  to what is going on outside ourselves, that is,
  external attention. You gather data from your
  senses.
• Intuition "intuition" (N) "listening to the
  inner voice" or "heeding the promptings from
  within." You gather data from your intuition.

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Thinking/Feeling

• Thinking Thinkers (T) pay more attention to
  logic when acting/deciding decisions just the
  facts, maam
• Feeling Feelers (F) pay more attention to the
  emotions (their own and other peoples) in a
  given situation when acting/deciding

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Judging/Perceiving

• Judgment Judgers" (J) make decisions readily
  they often make and keep schedules in their daily
  lives and prefer to quickly come to a conclusion
• Perception Perceivers prefer to probe for
  options, keep things loose and open-ended, and
  thus tend not be tied to a schedule. The process,
  not the project, matters
• In other words, Schedulers are judicious about
  schedules, Probers perceptive of options.

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The Four Temperaments

• RATIONALS (NT) - Albert Einstein, Margaret
  Thatcher
• IDEALISTS (NF) - Mohandas Gandhi, Eleanor
  Roosevelt
• ARTISANS (SP) - Ernest Hemingway, Barbra
  Streisand
• GUARDIANS (SJ) - George Washington, Mother Teresa

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The Four Temperaments

• Guardians
• Supervisor ESTJ
• Inspector ISTJ
• Provider ESFJ
• Protector ISFJ
• Artisans
• Promoter ESTP
• Operator ISTP
• Performer ESFP
• Composer ISFP

• Idealists
• Teacher ENFJ
• Counselor INFJ
• Champion ENFP
• Healer INFP
• Rationals
• Fieldmarshall ENTJ
• Mastermind INTJ
• Inventor ENTP
• Architect INTP

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The Four Colors provide a similar framework

• Blues tend to be very people-oriented, sensitive
  to emotions feelings, and concerned about
  harmony
• Golds tend to be very rule- schedule- oriented,
  concerned about making things happen in the right
  way at the right time

• Greens tend to be very idea-oriented, concerned
  with developing new theories, exploring
  philosophies and abstractions
• Oranges tend to be action-oriented, ready to find
  the next big thrill and move forward into an
  exciting future

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Using Personality Types

• No type is the right or wrong way to operate.
• Types reflect different approaches that, when
  understood and respected, can help move a project
  forward.
• Leveraging personality types so that peoples
  responsibilities coincide with their skills
  increases productivity
• Developing your own areas of weakness improves
  your own performance in a wider array of
  situations
• Good managers put people in situations that draw
  on their strengths, but also help them develop
  their weaknesses (in supportive ways)