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• Differentiate between different personality types.

G OA L S F O R T O D AY

• Interpret your own personality type.

• Strategize how to leverage your personality preferences in leadership roles.

OVERVIEW• Approaching MBTI Positively• Background on Carl Jung and the MBTI• Attitudes

–E/I: Questioning the other type• Functions

–S/N: Looking at a picture–T/F: Presents!

• Lifestyle–J/P: Work & Play

• Conclusion: Implementing Personality Types

VIDEO

What is positive psychology?

WHAT ARE SOME OF THE TENANTS OF POSIT IVE PSYCHOLOGY?Brainstorm:

How does learning more about our personalities and the personalities of our peers make achieving the tenants of positive psychology more likely?

• Positive Emotion

• Engagement

• Relationships

• Meaning

• Accomplishments

• Flow

• Mindfulness

• Learned Optimism

BACKGROUND ON MBTI

• Test developed by mother-

daughter team, Isabel Briggs

Myers and Katharine Cook Briggs

• First published in 1962

• An application of the Freudian

psychologist Carl Jung’s ideas

• Is a heuristic designed to indicate

preferences

EXTROVERSION/INTROVERSIONW H E R E D O YO U G AT H E R E N E R G Y ?

Energy is focused outward

Interest in people and events

Awareness of surroundings

Speak out often and easily

Skilled in connection and large group settings

Energy is focused inward

Interest in thoughts, ideas, and reflection

Awareness of self

May prefer to listen

Thrive in solitary or small-group work

ACTIVITY• At your tables, please brainstorm some answers to the following questions:

–What are some common stereotypes or misconceptions about both extroverts and introverts?

–What leadership duties, roles, or activities would extroverts thrive in? What about introverts?

–What is one question you would ask someone of the opposite preference to get a better understanding of how they experience introversion/extroversion?

SENSING/ INTUITIONH O W D O YO U G AT H E R A N D C O M M U N I C AT E I N F O R M AT I O N ?

ACTIVITY• We are going

to show you a picture for ten seconds.

• After you see it, use the next two minutes to describe as much as possible about it.

Focus on the big picture

Interest in the intangible or abstract

Ability to begin processes from any point

Speak in general or metaphoric language

Thrive in imaginative or creative processes

Focus on what’s next

Use senses to collect information

Ability to collect facts and details

Speak in literal terms

Prefer concrete, tangible processes

THINKING/ FEELINGH O W D O YO U M A K E D E C I S I O N S ?

ACTIVITY• Please split into two groups based on your T/F

preference.– T’s move to the left of the room. F’s to the right.

– In your groups work through the following scenario.• You have all been preparing to present the results of a

research team study at an all expenses paid conference held in the Caribbean. With just three weeks to go, the finance director tells you that the budget has had to be cut and there is only enough money for three of your team to go. Your job is to decide who in your actual group goes and describe (on the flipchart sheet) the process you used to make the decision.

Decisions based on impersonal, objective logic

Gather facts or principles

Focus on the task at hand, not necessarily relationships

Decisions based on empathy or sympathy

Person- or value-centered

Harmony preservers

Focus on relationships and helping everyone feel good about a decision

JUDGING/ PERCEIVINGH O W D O YO U O R I E N T YO U R S E L F T O T H E O U T S I D E W O R L D ?

ACTIVITY• There are two pieces of paper with opposing

statements on the opposite sides of the room.

• The first statement reads, “I have to get my work done before I can play.”

• The second statement reads, “I can play anytime.”

• Line up across the room according to how much you agree with either statement.

• For example, if you strongly agree with the first you would be right next to it.

Love order and plans

See the world in terms of decisions to be made

Are more comfortable with tangible deadlines

Thrive at planning ahead

Love possibility and to explore

Respond resourcefully to challenges

Prefer flexibility or even ambiguity

Rarely feel rushed

Comfortable with finishing tasks as they need to be completed

• What are my strengths as a leader?

MOVING FORWARD

• For what activities should I partner with someone else, and if I should, with whom should I partner:

Public Speaking Solving a Crisis

Assessing a Program Delegating Tasks

In our last few minutes together, spend some time thinking about the following questions.

THANK YOU!T R AV I S O L S O N – T R AV I S O L S O N @ J H U . E D U

L I Z PA C K – E PA C K @ H D . J H U . E D U

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