PERSONALITY TYPES

Personality Types

and how they can help you!

• Self awareness

• Career development

• Team building

• Academic counseling

• Relationship counseling

• Dealing with conflict

Uses of MBTI

• Understand yourself and your behavior

• Appreciate others and their contributions

• Make constructive use of differences

• Learn to accept and appreciate the

differences (this leads to greater tolerance

and patience)

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

Self Awareness

• Communications

• Reaction to change

• Conflicts

• Leadership

Organizational Dynamics

• Teambuilding

• Coaching

• Sales

Organizations

• Contribution to the organization

• Leadership style

• Preferred learning style

• Problem solving approach

• Preferred work environment

Areas for Improvement

• Potential pitfalls

• Suggestions for development

Personality Types

• Inborn tendencies

• Habits (comfort zone)

• Recognizable patterns

– Change and adapt

• Predictable responses

– To Change

– Conflict

– Stress

IMPORTANT!!!!!

• Everyone is unique

• Everyone uses every preference sometime

• We can all improve communications

• Relationships will improve with practice

Myers-Briggs

• Extravert

• Sensing

• Thinking

• Judging

• Intravert

• Intuitive

• Feeling

• Perceiving

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”

Extravert - Introvert

• How you get and use your energy

Extravert - Introvert

• 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

• 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

Sensing (S) – Intuitive (N)

How do you take in

information?

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

Thinking (T) - Feeling (F)

How do you make

decisions?

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

Judging (J) - Perceiving (P)

How do you

organize your

life?

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

Pssst…

• Don’t look at the next

slides unless you are

SERIOUSLY into this

stuff!

• Did you reflect

enough?

• WRITE YOUR

ESSAY!!!

ISTJ ISFJ INFJ INTJ

ISTP ISFP INFP INTP

ESTP ESFP ENFP ENTP

ESTJ ESFJ ENFJ ENTJ

ISTJ ISFJ INFJ INTJ

ISTP ISFP INFP INTP

ESTP ESFP ENFP ENTP

ESTJ ESFJ ENFJ ENTJ

ISTJ ISFJ INFJ INTJ

ISTP ISFP INFP INTP

ESTP ESFP ENFP ENTP

ESTJESFJ ENFJ ENTJ

SJ Leaders

The

Company People

(Traditionalists)

SJ Temperament

• “Don’t fix what ain’t 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

ISTJ ISFJ INFJ INTJ

ISTP ISFP INFP INTP

ESTP ESFP ENFP ENTP

ESTJ ESFJ ENFJ ENTJ

NF Leaders

The People People

(Idealists)

NF Temperament

• “I’m 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

ISTJ ISFJ INFJ INTJ

ISTP ISFP INFP INTP

ESTP ESFP ENFP ENTP

ESTJ ESFJ ENFJ ENTJ

NT Leaders

Conceptualizers

(Competence Above All)

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

ISTJ ISFJ INFJ INTJ

ISTP ISFP INFP INTP

ESTPESFP ENFP ENTP

ESTJ ESFJ ENFJ ENTJ

SP Leaders

The

Troubleshooters

SP Temperament

• Live for the moment

• Prefer action, immediate benefits

• Prefer freedom, few procedures

• Good at crisis management

• 38% of population

Main Benefit

SELF

IMPROVEMENT

Tips for Extraverts

• Style can overwhelm intraverts

• Recognize the need for written communications

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Leadership & Administration

• No favored preference

• Any type can succeed

What MBTI Can Do

• Use natural strengths to best advantage

• Accept that you can’t do everything well

• Identify your areas for improvement

• Appreciate differences in others

• Identify others who can help you be successful

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