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Humans have certain inborn tendencies to prefer to use our minds in particular ways. These preferences form the basis of personality types. The most thoroughly studied and widely used model for understanding personality type is the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). A simple pencil-and-paper test that takes 30 to 40 minutes to administer, the MBTI is a standard used routinely in management consulting and organizational development as well as counseling practice.

The MBTI is a personality type test that looks at our preferred ways of using our brains in four pairs of activity. This results in sixteen possible patterns or types that influence how we think, perceive the world, interact with other people and make decisions. When you understand type mechanics, you have a powerful tool to increase your success and satisfaction at work and at home.

Here's how it works:

 

When our minds are active, we are involved in one of two mental activities:

  • Perceiving - Taking in information.

  • Judging - Organizing that information and coming to conclusions.

There are two opposite ways that people perceive:

  • Sensing

  • Intuition

There are 2 opposite ways that people judge:

  • Thinking

  • Feeling

There are 2 opposite ways we focus our mental energy:

  • Extraverts - focus more on the external world of people, experience, & activity.

  • Introverts - focus more on the internal world of ideas, memories, & emotions.

These elements combine into 16 different types, all of which offer valuable gifts, all of which have predictable pitfalls.

 
Individual Benefits:  
  • Discover your optimal path to excellence.

  • Enhance understanding of yourself and your behavior .

  • Improve communication with others .

  • Increase your ability to access the thinking and problem solving abilities of others .

  • Enhance your ability to adapt to differences in leadership style .

  • Develop your ability to view actions of others objectively rather than taking these actions personally .

  • Maximize your strengths and manage your "Achilles Heel".

Group and Organizational Benefits:

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  • Participants understand the nature of their differences and reduce conflict through appreciation of differences.

  • Improve organizational decision-making and problem-solving.

  • Team-building tool to identify strengths, weaknesses and blind spots for workgroups and develop strategies for optimizing them.

  • Build understanding and support for the organization’s norms and cultures.

 

 MBTI Links: If you want to learn more about MBTI types, these are some web links that you might find helpful. The first one,  www.humanmetrics.com, offers a free online test that closely approximates the MBTI.

http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp  (online test)

http://www.personalitypage.com

http://209.15.29.56/myersbriggs/personhome.htm

http://www.personalitypathways.com

http://www.personalitypathways.com/type_inventory.html

http://www.doi.gov/octc/typescar.html

http://www.bettycjung.net/Personality.htm

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