Using the MyersBriggs Type Indicator What is the
Using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
What is the MBTI? • Self-report questionnaire • Based on work of Carl Jung • Developed by Katherine Briggs & Isabel Myers • Most widely used instrument for understanding personality differences Using the MBTI
MBTI Can Help Students: • Enhance understanding and awareness of themselves • Understand their motivations • Understand capitalize on their natural strengths • Learn about potential areas for growth • Understand appreciate individual differences Using the MBTI
Specific Uses of MBTI Results • Enhance understanding and awareness of themselves • Understand their motivations • Understand capitalize on their natural strengths • Learn about potential areas for growth • Understand appreciate individual differences Using the MBTI
How It Works • 4 dichotomous preference scales • Combination of 4 preferences results in one of 16 types • Theory is that preferences are inborn • Handedness • Preference development & Personality type • Both preferences used • Use of preferred methods Using the MBTI
Preference Scales • • E-I (Extraversion/Introversion) S-N (Sensing/Intuition) T-F (Thinking/Feeling) J-P (Judging/Perceiving) Using the MBTI
How Are You Energized? • • • Extraversion Energized from outside: • people and things Often talkative, easy to get • to know Acts, then reflects • Needs relationships • Expresses emotions • E’s may seem shallow to • I's Using the MBTI Introversion Energized from inside: thoughts and reflections Often reserved, hard to get to know Reflects, then acts Needs privacy Bottles up emotions I’s may seem withdrawn to E’s
More “Outies” or “Innies? ” Extraverts 66% Introverts 33% Remember that everybody uses both E and I, but prefers one over the other. How clear is your preference? We need both sides for balance! Using the MBTI
How do you Notice/Remember? Sensing • Takes in info through 5 senses • Concrete thinkers • Likes routine&consistency • Lives in the present • Likes practical things • Follows the sequence, a step at a time • To N: S’s can’t see forest for trees? Using the MBTI Intuition • Takes in info through 6 th sense • Abstract thinkers • Likes change and variety • Lives toward the future • Imagines possibilities • Jumps in anywhere, skips steps • To S: N’s have head in the clouds?
More Dreamers or Realists? Sensers 66% Intuitives 33% Remember that everybody uses both S and N, but prefers one over the other. How clear is your preference? We need both sides for balance! Using the MBTI
How Do You Make Decisions? Thinking Feeling • Decides with logic and head • Can look at things as an outside observer • Spontaneously criticizes, finds flaws • Good at analyzing plans • To F: Blunt, cold, condescending? • Decides personally with heart • Sees things as a participant, in a situation • Spontaneously appreciates, finds pluses • Good at understanding people • To T: Emotional, takes things too personally? Using the MBTI
More Tough-minds or Tender-hearts? Thinkers 50% (45%) Feelers 50% (55%) 66% Remember that everybody uses both T and F, but prefers one over the other. How clear is your preference? We need both sides for balance! Using the MBTI
How Do You Plan/Organize? Judging • Prefers orderly lifestyle • • Like definite order & • structure • • Likes being decisive, closure • • Handles deadlines, plans in advance • • Likes to have life under control • • To P: May seem demanding, rigid, uptight Using the MBTI Perceiving Prefers flexible lifestyle Likes going with the flow Likes being curious, openness Meets deadlines by last minute rush Likes to experience life as it happens To J: May seem disorganized, messy, irresponsible
More Planners or “Go with the Flows”? Judgers 45% Perceivers 55% Remember that everybody uses both J and P, but prefers one over the other. How clear is your preference? We need both sides for balance! Using the MBTI
Your MBTI Type • When combined, your 4 preferences indicate your personality or preference type • You have a natural, inborn preference for one side over the other • 16 different MBTI Types • Doesn’t meausre: IQ Normalcy Emotions Stress Maturity Learning • Remember that everyone is an individual • Is there a best type? Using the MBTI
THE 16 DIFFERENT TYPES, WITH DOMINANT PREFERENCES ISTJ ISFJ INTJ ISTP ISFP INTP ESFP ENTP ESTJ ESFJ ENTJ USING YOUR PREFERRED FUNCTION, IN YOUR FAVORITE WORLD Using the MBTI
How Can I Use the MBTI? • Learn more about self and preferences • Like who you are • Understand motivators, and watch for the pitfalls of one’s type • Understand others in your life better • Can apply this to other areas: – Relationships, teamwork and working in groups – Leadership – Communication Using the MBTI
Why do We Need the Others? Intuitive needs Sensing Types: Sensing Types need Intuitives: • To bring up facts • To apply experience • To see what needs attention • To have patience & be realistic • To see possibilities • To supply ingenuity • To prepare for the future • To have enthusiasm & be optimistic Feeling Type needs a Thinker: Thinker needs a Feeling Type: • To analyze • To find flaws in advance • To be consistent • To stand firm • To reform things Using the MBTI • To persuade • To forecast how others will feel • To teach, inspire • To appreciate thinker
Presenting, influencing, explaining to. . . S’s • be factual, work out details in advance • document successful applications • reduce risk • show why it makes sense T’s • be logical, state principles • be well organized, move logically from point to point • stress competent handling of issue • list the costs/benefits Using the MBTI N’s • give global scheme, note challenges • use confidence & enthusiasm • point out future benefits • don’t let opportunity pass F’s • tell who else is for idea • be personable, say how it’s helpful • say it’s the right thing to do • tell why it’s valuable
Four Part Framework 1. Preferred Interpersonal Response “Talk it out” vs. “Think it through” 2. Preferred Focus of Information “Specifics” vs. “The big picture” 3. Preferred Reasons for Action “Logical implications” vs. “Impact on people” 4. Preferred Approach to Problem Solving “Joy of closure” vs. “Joy of process” Using the MBTI
Zig-Zag Decision Making Process S What are the facts? What is the problem to be solved? Gather the facts. T What are the pro’s and con’s? Analyze logically the consequences of each possibility. Using the MBTI N What are the possibilities? What are new ways to look at the problem? Use your imagination. F How do we feel about the effects of each option? How does it affect others? Weigh the human consequences of acting on each possibility.
MBTI Type: Choosing Majors and Careers
Career Planning and the MBTI? • Identifies work values • Identifies preferred occupational settings • Looks at compatibility of educational and occupational choices • Looks at why you may have chosen an occupation or academic program • Provides insight on satisfiers/ dissatisfiers Using the MBTI
Choosing Majors or Careers EJ (ESTJ, ESFJ, ENTJ) “I want to decide and get on with it. ” IJ (ISTJ, ISFJ, INTJ) EP (ESTP, ESFP, ENTP) “I want to experience it all. ” IP (ISTP, ISFP, INTP) “I wonder what I’ll want to be when I grow up. ” Using the MBTI “I want to be sure. ”
EJ (ESTJ, ESFJ, ENTJ): “Decide on a major and get on with it. ” • Many come to college already decided on major • Choosing a major is often on “to do” list soon after reaching college • More likely to seek and be ready for career counseling in first semester • Proceed in step-like fashion if all goes well • Set backs are frustrating • Help them slow down and collect more information • “Mountain climbers” of decision-making • Most decided types Using the MBTI
EP (ESTP, ESFP, ENTP) “I want to experience it all. ” • Career decision-making an ongoing process • Try it all—do it all • May change their mind • Feel reassured AND frustrated by too many options • Decisions are direction, not destiny • “Bungee jumpers” of career decisionmaking Using the MBTI
IJ (ISTJ, ISFJ, INTJ) “I want to be sure. ” • Research and reflection • Careful consideration • May not consult others Using the MBTI
IP (ISTP, ISFP, INTP) “I wonder what I’ll want to be when I grow up. ” • Delay career decisions until all options are considered • Resist deadlines • May not seek career counseling • May need nudge from others about decision-making • “Wanderers” of career decision-making • Least decided types for majors and careers Using the MBTI
Typical Fields of Study or Work: ST’s • Management/Business • Accounting/Banking • Law Enforcement • Engineering • Skilled Trades • Applied Science Using the MBTI NF’s • Counseling/Human Services • Art and Music • Writing/Journalism • Behavioral Science • Education • Research
Typical Fields of Study or Work: SF’s • Health Care • Teaching • Religious Service • Office Work • Community Service • Teaching Using the MBTI NT’s • Law • Physical Science • Computers • Management • Technical Work
Different Drums, Different Drummers If I do not want what you want, please try not to tell me that my want is wrong. Or if I believe other than you, at least pause before you correct my view. Or if my emotion is less than yours, or more, given the same circumstances, try not to ask me to feel more strongly or weakly. Or yet if I act, or fail to act, in the manner of your design for action, let me be. I do not, for the moment at least, ask you to understand me. That will come only when you are willing to give up changing me into a copy of you. Using the MBTI
Different Drums, Different Drummers I may be your spouse, your parent, your offsping, your friend, or your colleague. If you will allow me any of my own wants, or emotions, or beliefs, or actions, then you open yourself, so that some day these ways of mine might not seem so wrong, and might finally appear to you as right -- for me. To put up with me is the first step to understanding me. Not that you embrace my ways as right for you, but that you are no longer irritated or disappointed with me for my seeming waywardness. And in understanding me you might come to prize my differences from you, and, far from seeking to change me, preserve and even nurture those differences. Using the MBTI
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