CARRIE ROBERSON North/Far North Regional Consortium Reporting Out Activity
Jan 16, 2016
CARRIE ROBERSON
North/Far North Regional Consortium Reporting Out Activity
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
USING PSYCHOLOGICAL TYPE TO
UNDERSTAND AND APPRECIATE
OURSELVES AND OTHERS
MBTI
RELATING TYPE TO:
• Careers• Relationships• Counseling• Parenting• Business
• Teamwork• Leadership• Education• Spirituality
HISTORY• 1921: Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist,
Psychological Types appears in English translation
• 1923: Katherine Briggs and Isabel Myers began to study the concept of individual differences and “type watch”
• 1957: Educational Testing Service decided to publish the MBTI instrument (ongoing college-student study)
• 1970: Introduction to Type released to explain MBTI instrument validity and reliability
• 1988: CPP reported over 2,000,000,000 MBTI sold and translated worldwide
• 2008: Carrie Roberson completes MBTI Certification Program (92.5%) and given certification to administer and interpret MBTI!
The NATURE of the MBTI
• MBTI instrument shows us patterns of mental processing
• “Type” is a dynamic organization of mental energy
• Observable differences in mental functioning concerns the way people “prefer” to use their minds
• Conscious and unconscious behavior
– Dominant
– Auxiliary
– Tertiary
– Inferior
MBTI does notdoes not ASSESS
• Aptitude• Intelligence• Maturity• Learning• Skill• Emotional trauma• Psychological Illness• Physical Illness• Stress• “Normalcy”
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
PREFERENCES TENDENCIES INCLINATIONS HANDWRITING ACTIVITY
Looking at “TYPE?”
4 PSYCHOLOGICAL PREFERENCE SCALES
DIRECTION OF FOCUS- SOURCE OF ENERGY
Extraversion----------------------------------------------Introversion
WAYS OF TAKING IN INFORMATION
Sensing---------------------------------------------------------INtuition
WAYS OF MAKING DECISION
Thinking---------------------------------------------------------Feeling
ATTITUDE TOWARD EXTERNAL WORLD- LIFESTYLE
Judgment---------------------------------------------------Perception
EXTRAVERSION
• Energized by outer world• Focuses on people, things
• Active• Breadth of interests
• Live it, then understand it• Interaction• Outgoing
INTROVERSION
• Energized by the inner world• Focus on thoughts, concepts
• Reflective• Depth of interest
• Understand it before live it• Privacy/ Concentration
• Inwardly directed
STRENGTHS & WEAKNESSES
SENSING
• Facts/ data• Details
• Directions• Reality-based
• Actuality• Practical
• Here and now• Literal
INTUITION
• Meanings• Associations• Possibilities
• Hunch/ speculation• Innovations
• Variety/ random• Future
STRENGTHS & WEAKNESSES
THINKING
• Analysis• Objective
• Logic• Impersonal
• Critique• Reason• Criteria
FEELING
• Sympathy• Subjective• Humane• Personal
• Appreciate• Values
• Empathize
STRENGTHS & WEAKNESSES
JUDGMENT
• Organized• Structured• Planned• Decisive• Control
• Deliberate• Systematic
PERCEPTION
• Openness/ flow• Flexible
• Spontaneous• Curious
• Let life happen• Surprise• Change
STRENGTHS & WEAKNESSES
WORKING TOGETHER
Complex tasks need the talents of different types of people!
• INTROVERTS: for conceptualizing the problem and looking deeply into issues
• EXTRAVERTS: for knowing situational variables, and for making the social contacts needed
• SENSING: types for knowing the facts and realities needed in the planning stages and in working out details
• INTUITIVE: types for seeing the big picture, for forging into new areas and coming up with new possibilities
• THINKING: types for spotting flaws and inconsistencies of a plan
• FEELING: types for seeing the human side and for persuasion
• JUDGING: types for organization and decisiveness
• PERCEIVING: types for openness/ understanding and flexibility when the system breaks down
YOUR “TYPE”
• Combine your 4 preferences to create your “TYPE…”• No one is “either/ or”- everyone uses all preferences of TYPE• Individuation is a process of differentiation, with a goal of developing
an individual personality TYPE• Each TYPE is valuable, with attributes that are preferred, tended to
or inclined
16 TYPES
YOU DECIDE!
• REPORTED TYPE
• BEST-FIT TYPE
Dare to learn/ find new insights
and much to reflect on as you
gain a deeper understanding of
yourself and your own TYPE!