MyersBriggs Types

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PERSONALITY TYPES
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Personality Types

• Self awareness
• Career development
• Team building
• Academic counseling
• Relationship counseling
• Dealing with conflict

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Uses of MBTI

• Understand yourself and your behavior
• Appreciate others and their contributions
• Make constructive use of differences

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What Does It Do?

• Identifies preferences, not skills
• Open possibilities, not limit options
• All preferences are valuable
• All preferences can be used by each person

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Self Awareness

• Communications
• Reaction to change
• Conflicts
• Leadership

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Organizational Dynamics

• Teambuilding
• Coaching
• Sales

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Organizations

• Contribution to the organization
• Leadership style
• Preferred learning style
• Problem solving approach
• Preferred work environment

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Areas for Improvement

• Potential pitfalls
• Suggestions for development

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Personality Types

• Inborn tendencies
• Habits (comfort zone)
• Recognizable patterns
• Change and adapt
• Predictable responses
• To Change
• Conflict
• Stress

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IMPORTANT!!!!!

• Everyone is unique
• Everyone uses every preference sometime
• We can all improve communications
• Relationships will improve with practice

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Brain and Personality

• Brainstem
• Instincts and Survival
• Limbic System
• Feelings and Emotions
• Frontal Cortex
• Thinking and Ideas

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Myers-Briggs

• Extravert
• Sensing
• Thinking
• Judging

• Intravert
• Intuitive
• Feeling
• Perceiving

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Terms

• Extravert IS NOT talkative or loud
• Introvert IS NOT shy or inhibited
• Feeling IS NOT emotional
• Judging IS NOT judgmental
• Perceiving IS NOT perceptive

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Extravert - Introvert

• How you get and use your energy

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Extravert - Introvert

• I Thoughts, feelings, writing (internal world)
• Think/reflect first, then act
• Needs private time to reflect
• One-on-one relationship or conversations
• Great listeners
• Enjoys focusing on a project

• E People, activity, talking (external world)
• Readily takes initiative
• Act first, think later
• Enjoys a wide variety and change in people and
  relationships
• Very approachable
• Develop ideas through discussion

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Sensing (S) Intuitive (N)

• How do you take in information?

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Sensing (S) Intuitive (N)

• S Facts real tangible - now
• Carefully thought out conclusions
• Lives in the present
• Do something rather than think about it
• Fantasy is a dirty word
• Common sense solutions

• N Possibilities Inspiration - future
• Use personal feelings to make decisions
• Comfortable with fuzzy data
• Inventing new possibilities is automatic
• Sometimes considered absent-minded

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Thinking (T) - Feeling (F)

• How do you make decisions?

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Thinking (T) - Feeling (F)

• T Decision through logic and truth
• More important to be right than liked
• Viewed as unemotional
• Focus on tasks
• Provides objective and critical analysis

• F - Decision through emotion
• Follow hunch to make quick conclusions
• Sensitive to feelings of others
• Toxic reaction to disharmony, prefer to
  accommodate
• Takes things too personally

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Judging (J) - Perceiving (P)

• How do you organize your life?

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Judging (J) - Perceiving (P)

• J planned, orderly, reach closure quickly
• Get things done
• Punctual
• Likes to use a list, make plans
• Structure and order
• Works best and avoids stress when keeps ahead of
  deadlines and not given too much information at
  one time

• P flexible, spontaneous, stay open
• Lives for the moment
• Works well under pressure and deadlines
• Creative
• Multitasks
• Avoids commitments, it interferes with flexibility

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SJ Leaders

• The
• Company People
• (Traditionalists)

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SJ Temperament

• Dont fix what aint broke
• Tend to organize everything, good managers
• Thrive on procedures
• Prefer chain of command
• Respect credentials and those who pull own weight
• Concentrate on today, rather than tomorrow
• 38 of population

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NF Leaders

• The People People
• (Idealists)

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NF Temperament

• Im here to help
• Good with people - good trainers
• Respect relationships above credentials
• Very loyal
• Value harmony, encourage participation
• Tend to personalize any criticism
• 12 of population

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NT Leaders

• Conceptualizers
• (Competence Above All)

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NT Temperament

• See the big picture
• Good at conceptualizing - strategic planning,
  research, project planning
• Good writers and speakers
• Enjoy challenging the system
• Dislike procedures and hierarchy
• Loyalty depends on respect
• 12 of population

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SP Leaders

• The Troubleshooters

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SP Temperament

• Live for the moment
• Prefer action, immediate benefits
• Prefer freedom, few procedures
• Good at crisis management
• 38 of population

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Main Benefit

• SELF IMPROVEMENT

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Tips for Extraverts

• Style can overwhelm intraverts
• Recognize the need for written communications

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Tips for Intraverts

• Be assertive
• Let others know where you are and what you need
• Ask for time to respond
• Recognize the need for face to face communications

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Tips for Sensors

• Your helpful questions and useful details may cut
  off others sharing of ideas
• Ask others for their ideas and perspective
• Allow time for brainstorming

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Tips for Intuitives

• Others may need to do a reality check on your
  ideas or compare them with past experience
• While brainstorming, think of what it will take
  to make the idea work

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Tips for Thinking Types

• Personal connection and acknowledgement are
  necessary to Feeling types to commit to a project
• Your idea of a lively difference of opinion may
  represent a conflict tp Feeling types, creating
  tension

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Tips for Feeling Types

• Logical structure and clarity are necessary for
  Thinking types to commit to a project
• T types may see your relationship-oriented
  approach as obscuring your commitment to planning
  and completing tasks
• Let others know if their style is bothering you

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Tips for Judging Types

• Recognize that structure is restrictive to P
  types - limit to essentials
• Allow time for deliberation and decision
• Hold others responsible for results, rather than
  dictating the process
• Use asking tones, rather than insisting tones

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Tips for Perceiving Types

• Recognize that your exploratory style may seem
  like a waste of time to Judging types
• Set deadlines for your own results and decisions
• Follow through on your commitments

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Typewatching

• Sales
• Recruiting
• Coaching
• Conflict Resolution
• Teambuilding
• Better Communication

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Teambuilding

• Match preferences to tasks
• Mutual benefit of opposite types
• Conceptualizing
• Meeting management
• Reach conclusions
• Set goals

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Recruiting

• Interviewing
• Criteria for hiring
• SJ - base on credentials
• NF - base on relationship
• NT - base on competence
• Retention

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Very Satisfied with Job

• ENFJ 61
• ESFJ 60
• ENTJ 56
• ESTJ 53
• ESFP 52
• INTP 50
• ESTP 50
• ENFP 49

• ISFJ 49
• ISTJ 47
• INTJ 45
• INFP 45
• ISTP 44
• ENTP 42
• INFJ 39
• ISFP 38

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Retention Likely to Leave

• INTP 56
• INFP 46
• INTJ 40
• ESFP 40
• ENTP 40
• ISTP 38
• ENFP 38
• ENFJ 37

• ISFJ 36
• ESTP 36
• ESTJ 35
• INFJ 32
• ISTJ 31
• ISFP 27
• ESFJ 26
• ENTJ 22

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Leadership Administration

• No favored preference
• Any type can succeed

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What MBTI Can Do

• Use natural strengths to best advantage
• Accept that you cant do everything well
• Identify your areas for improvement
• Appreciate differences in others
• Identify others who can help you be successful

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What MBTI Should Not Do

• Does not measure skills
• Does not predict success or failure
• Should not be used to
• assign jobs
• avoid certain activities
• excuse inexcusable behavior
• Do not use in performance reviews

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