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MYERS-BRIGGS TYPE INDICATOR^©

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a personality indicator designed to identify your personal preferences.

 

Katharine Cook Briggs and her daughter Isabel Briggs Myers developed the Indicator and its criteria follow from Carl Jung's theories in his work Psychological Types.   It looks at the following elements called dichotomies:

1. Energy source: Do I like to think things through or talk things out? Do I prefer to have a breadth of knowledge or depth of knowledge in a few areas? How do I react under stress?
2. Focus of Perception: What kind of information do I focus on? How do I process this? Am I future focused or do I focus on what is known and experienced? What value do I place on tradition or innovation?
3. Decision making: What is my preferred style for decision-making? Is my motivation focused on personal values and relationship building or logic and rationale?
4. Lifestyle/work patterns: How do I respond to deadlines? What is my planning style? What value to I place on structure and systems? Do I prefer to multi-task or approach things more lineally?

The four pairs of preferences or dichotomies are shown below:

Extraversion	Introversion
Sensing	Intuition
Thinking	Feeling
Judging	Perceiving

 

 

The Sixteen Types

Each person can use any of the following combinations, but it is similar to a sixteen roomed house - there is one room we each prefer to be in.

ISTJ	ISFJ	INFJ	INTJ
ISTP	ISFP	INFP	INTP
ESTP	ESFP	ENFP	ENTP
ESTJ	ESFJ	ENFJ	ENTJ

Skilfully applied, the MBTI is a powerful tool for identifying strengths and weaknesses as well as developing individuals and teams. It provides information and insight as the basis for a long-term personal or team development planning.

Answering a questionnaire of 80 forced choice questions, (usually on-line) and receiving a debrief,  each individual can get insight into their own personality type. These questionnaires are administered and assessed by professionally qualified practitioners, and the debrief focuses on such areas as:

• Identifying your stress profile.
• Identifying your individual and team communication and problem solving style.
• Influential communication - how can you build more influential relationships through type?
• Assisting individuals to become more productive.

Although it takes slightly longer to understand than some other tools, it becomes a life supporting strategy that you can use many ways. It has been used for over forty years and is one of the most popular and rigorously tested psychometric tools in the world.

 

 

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