Post on 19-Jan-2018
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Uses of MBTI
• Understand yourself and your behavior• Appreciate others and their contributions• Make constructive use of differences
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
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
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