Personality Types

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Personality Types

• MBTI (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator) developed in
  the 1940s, scientifically validated
• 16 different personality types and every person
  fits into one of them
• All personality types are equally valuable, with
  inherent strengths and blind spots.
• Type does NOT indicate intelligence or predict
  success, nor indicate how well-adjusted
  individuals are
• Type DOES help us discover what motivates us and
  empowers us to seek these elements in the work we
  do

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The four aspects of human personality

• How we interact with the world and where we
  direct our energy
• The kind of information we naturally notice
• How we make decisions
• Whether we prefer to live in a more structured
  way (making decisions) or in a more spontaneous
  way (taking in information)

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Four Dimensions of Personality Type

• Extraversion (E)
• Sensing (S)
• Thinking (T)
• Judging (J)

• Introversion (I)
• Intuition (N)
• Feeling (F)
• Perceiving (P)

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16 Possible Personality Types
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Extraverts/Introverts

• Energized by being with other people
• Act, then think
• Are easier to read and know share personal
  information freely
• Communicate with enthusiasm
• Respond quickly enjoy a fast pace
• Tend to think out loud

• Energized by spending time alone
• Think, then act
• Are more private prefer to share personal
  information with a select few
• Keep their enthusiasm to themselves
• Respond after taking the time to think things
  through enjoy a slower pace
• Think things through inside their heads

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Sensors/Intuitives

• Trust what is certain and concrete
• Tend to be specific and literal give detailed
  descriptions
• Present information in a step-by-step manner
• Are oriented to the present

• Trust inspiration and inference
• Tend to be general and figurative use metaphors
  and analogies
• Present information through leaps, in a
  roundabout manner
• Are oriented toward the future

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Thinkers/Feelers

• Step back apply impersonal analysis to problems
• Value logic, justice, and fairness one standard
  for all
• May be seen as heartless, insensitive and
  uncaring
• Consider it more important to be truthful than
  tactful

• Step forward consider effect of actions on
  others
• Value empathy and harmony see the exception to
  the rule
• May be seen as overemotional, illogical, and weak
• Consider it important to be tactful as well as
  truthful

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Judgers/Perceivers

• Are happiest after decisions have been made
• Set goals and work toward achieving them on time
• Are product oriented (emphasis on completing the
  task)
• See time as a finite resource and take deadlines
  seriously

• Are happiest leaving their options open
• Change goals as new information becomes available
• Are process oriented (emphasis is on how the task
  is completed)
• See time as a renewable resource and see
  deadlines as elastic

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Why should we understand our personality type?

• You can focus your natural strengths and
  inclinations into a career you can love
• You can evaluate both your strong points and your
  blind spots
• You will know how to make sure you are operating
  from a position of strength
• You will discover what best motivates you and
  energizes you as an individual and to seek
  these elements in work you do