We Come In All Shapes and Sizes

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We Come In All Shapes and Sizes

• Phyllis N. Weatherly, M.Ed., L.P.C.
• Director, Career and Counseling Center
• Southern Polytechnic State University

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What Do You Want?Why This Session?
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SESSION GOAL

• Provide participants with a basic introduction to
  the MBTI (Myers Briggs Type Indicator) and its
  uses in organizations.
• Participants will gain a better understanding of
  how our differences affect the workplace and
  began to explore ways of reducing conflict and
  creating more productive work teams.

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The Basics!

• What is it? What it doesnt do
• Carl Jung
• Isabel Briggs Myers and Katharine Briggs CAPT
• Preference Scales
• Applications
• The Research
• Related Theories (temperament, colours)

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The 16 Types
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Four Dimensions Underlying MBTI
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Practical Application for Personality Types

• Useful in work and organizational settings
• To help individuals see that different approaches
  to
• working and problem solving can be of benefit to
  the organization rather than a source of friction
• To improve communication between persons who work
  in the organization
• To build effective teams
• To solve problems and resolve conflicts
• To better understand and appreciate different
  leadership and management styles

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Extrovert or Introvert?

• Prefer to relax alone or with a few close friends
• Need rest outside activities, even the ones you
  enjoy
• Often listens but talk a lot about topics of
  importance to them
• Appear calm, self-contained, and like to observe
• Tend to think before speaking or acting
• Experience mind going blank in groups or under
  pressure

• Like to be in the thick of things
• Relish variety, bored with sameness
• Knows lots of people, consider them friends
• Enjoy chitchatting, even with strangers
• Feel stoked after activity, eager for more
• Tend to speak or act without thinking first
• Are generally quite peppy
• Tend to talk more than listen

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FAMOUS EXTROVERTS
Eddie Murphy
             SalmaHayek
             Samuel L.Jackson
Jamie LeeCurtis
             MikhailGorbachev
Michael Douglas
            ColinPowell
             Al Pacino
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Famous Introverts

• Jane Goodall
• Albert Einstein
• Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
• Glen Close
• Cuba Gooding Jr.
• Diane Sawyer
• Johnny Carson
• Condoleeza Rice

             Cuba
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Working with Extroverts - What Others Should Know

• Develop ideas through interaction and discussion
• Network well and socialize
• Keep track of company grapevine
• Dont mind phone calls and see interruptions as
  welcome diversion
• Become impatient when work is slow or repetitive
• Speak while they are thinking
• Generally have excellent verbal skills
• Appreciate and enjoy attention

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Working with Introverts - What Others Should Know

• Like quiet for concentration
• May have trouble communicating
• May seem quiet and aloof
• Need to be asked for opinions and ideas
• Like to work on long complex problems
• Need to understand why they are doing something
• Dislike intrusions and interruptions
• Need to think and reflect before speaking
• Work alone contentedly
• Prefer to stay in office rather than socialize
• Do not like to draw attention to themselves
• May have trouble remembering names and faces

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Its not that I change my mind. Its that
everyone insists I answer right now. So I do
and then when I know what I mean I tell them.
My Lifestyle
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DIFFERENCES MAY OCCUR FOR THE FOLLOWING REASONS

• May be operating from different data
• May be misunderstanding each other
• May understand, but disagree because we do not
  like what the other likes or because we do not
  assign the priority to issues
• May have different goals
• May have different needs
• Do not like the other persons style

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Questions??, Comments!!, Concerns