Myers Briggs Personality Types
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The 16 Myers Briggs personality types and accompanying Myers Briggs descriptions are the starting point for understanding what your test reveals. Knowing your MB type is essential to leadership excellence according to Dr. Robert Terry, author of Authentic Leadership: Courage In Action
According to Consulting Psychologists Press Inc., the publisher of the Myers Briggs instrument, it is "the world’s most widely used personality assessment." It is believed that at least two million Myers Briggs assessments are administered annually.
Many of these assessments are done in a seminar or leadership training session and are "paper and pencil" exercises. Increasingly the Myers-Briggs Personality Testing is done online either by groups or as an individual.
The 16 types are typically referred to by an abbreviation of four letters—the initial letters of each of their four type preferences (except in the case of intuition, which uses the abbreviation N to distinguish it from Introversion).
The Quick Guide to the 16 Personality Types in Organizations: Understanding Personality Differences in the Workplace is a complete set of descriptions of psychological type's expression in organizations. This valuable handbook for developing individuals, teams, and organizations covers fresh, new territory in a compact format. These type descriptions provide a comprehensive insight into how Myers Briggs personality types manifests themselves at work.
Why Should You Want to Know
Your MB Personality Type?
Some things you will learn about yourself:
- Where you prefer to direct your energy: If you prefer to deal with "the outer world" of people, things and situations, you are likely an "E" or extrovert. If you have a preference for "the inner world" of ideas, information, explanations or beliefs, you are likely an "I" for Introversion.
- How you prefer to process information: A preference for facts, clarity and description will give you an "S" for Sensing. If your preference is for ideas, exploring the unknown, generating new possibilities and uncovering what is not obvious, you will likely score an "N" for Intuition.
- How you prefer to make decisions: If you tend to make decisions based on objective logic and an analytic approach, your Myers Briggs preference is for Thinking, represented by the letter "T". If you use values and/or personal beliefs on which to base your decisions, your Myers Briggs preference is for Feeling and will add the letter "F" to your score.
- How you prefer to organize your life: If you want your life to be planned, stable and organized, your preference is for Judging (not, however,'Judgmental'). This is shown by the letter "J" in your score. If you are a person who likes "go with the flow," be flexibile and respond to situations as they appear, you will receive a score for Perception and the letter "P".
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Type Talk: The 16 Personality Types That Determine How We Live, Love, and Work will help you apply your Myers Briggs knowledge to both your work and love life. There are lots of tips about how to prevent personality clashes by slight adjustments to your behavior when you know which Myers Briggs type informs their life.
The books affirms that all Myers Briggs personality types have great contributions to make to life and society. Chapter titles are:
- ISTJ Doing What Should Be Done
- ISFJ A High Sense of Duty
- INFJ An Inspiration to Others
- INTJ Everything Has Room For Improvement
- ISTP Ready to Try Anything Once
- ISFP Sees Much But Shares Little
- INFP Performing Noble Service to Aid Society
- INTP A Love of Problem Solving
- ESTP The Ultimate Realist
- ESFP You Only Go Around Once in Life
ENFP Giving Life an Extra Squeeze
- ENTP One Exciting Challenge After Another
- ESTJ Life's Administrators
- ESFJ Host's and Hostesses of the World
- ENFJ Smooth-Talking Persuaders
- ENTJ Life's Natural Leaders
Type Talk at Work: How the 16 Personality Types Determine Your Success on the Job is a great companion volume that will move you forward in your career.
Gifts Differing: Understanding Personality Type was authored by the late Isabel Briggs Myers who devoted her life to the observation, study, and measurement of personality. With her mother, Katharine Briggs, she authored the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator personality inventory.
The creation of the Myers Briggs Personality Types Inventory began during World War II. The creators believed that knowledge of personality preferences would help women who were entering the industrial workforce for the first time to identify the sort of war-time jobs where they would be "most comfortable and effective". The initial questionnaire grew into the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, which was first published in 1962. The MBTI focuses on normal populations and emphasizes the value of naturally occurring differences.
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