Myers-Briggs Type Indicator An Introduction. Origins of Myers-Briggs Based on the work of Swiss psychologist C. G. Jung, who presented his psychological.

Myers-Briggs Type IndicatorAn Introduction

Origins of Myers-Briggs

• Based on the work of Swiss psychologist C. G. Jung, who presented his psychological type theory in his book Psychological Types (published 1921, translated into English 1923)

• Katherine Briggs and Isabel Briggs-Myers created the MBTI to make Jung’s theory understandable by and accessible to the general public.

What Myers-Briggs Is

Assessment

An indicator—not a test, so there are no right or wrong answers or good or bad types

Looks only at normal behavior

Describes 4 aspects of people’s nature

Used by most Fortune 100 companies

Administered more than 2 million times a year in 30+ languages in

70+countries

Aids in relationships, self-understanding, leadership, decision

making…

Usage

Nature vs. Nurture

Nature

Includes inborn tendencies and

inherited characteristics

Includes family, cultural, and environmental

influences

Nurture

Terms used by experts to explain personality

Jung believed BOTH play a role in adult personality development, but type was designed to measure

NATURE only.

What Myers-Briggs Is Not

IntelligenceMaturityEmotions

IQ

DevelopmentStress

TraumaEmotional Health

Myers-Briggs does not measure:

Myers-Briggs also does not tell you what you can and cannot do!!

Handedness Exercise

Use your preferred hand to sign your name on a sheet of paper.

Now use your other hand to sign your name on a sheet of paper, and

compare.We can accomplish the task of signing

our names with either hand, but the preferred hand will always be more

natural, comfortable, and automatic.

Jung’s Theory

We will look at four pairs of opposites—like our right and left hands. We all use both sides of each pair, but one is our natural

preference.Jung believed that our preferences do not

change; they stay the same over our lifetime.

What changes is how we use our preferences, the environment’s impact on

how our types manifest, and often the accuracy with which we can measure the

preferences.

For the Visual Learners…

Energy

Introversion

Extraversion

Judgment

Feeling

Thinking

Perception

Intuition

Sensing

Organization

Perceiving

Judging

Extraversion and Introversion

E IThe direction in which we focus our attention and energy and how we gain mental energy

People who Prefer…

Extraversion

• Focus their energy and attention outward

• Are interested in the world of people and things, and enjoy interacting with it

• Often think as they speak• Tell you about themselves

openly• Give breadth to life• Can seem shallow and

intruding to introverts

• Focus their energy and attention inward

• Are interested in the inner world of thoughts and reflections, and enjoy interacting with it

• Tend to think before speaking

• Need to know a person before opening up

• Give depth to life• Can seem withdrawn and

secretive to extraverts

Introversion


E I

Key Words

Extraversion

ActionOutwardPeople

InteractionMany

ExpressiveDo-Think-Do

ReflectionInwardPrivacy

ConcentrationFew

QuietThink-Do-Think

Introversion

It’s All About Preference

We all do Extraverted and Introverted things.

But we usually do not do themwith equal comfort.

Most of us have a preference for one

over the other.

Where Do You Fit?

Given the choice, which do you prefer:

Extraversion or Introversion?

Extraversion

Introversio

n

Sensing and Intuition

S NThe way we take in information and the kind

of information we like and trust


Sensing

• Prefer to take in information using their five sensesand past experiences

• Like facts and details and use them to see the overall design

• Are practical and realistic• Live in the present, the here

and now• Like set procedures and

established routines• May seem materialistic and

overly literal to intuitives

• Go beyond what is real or concrete and focus on meaning, associations, and relationships

• See patterns and meaning in information and like overviews

• Are conceptual, abstract, and imaginative

• Live in future possibilities• Like new ideas and ways of

doing things• May seem like impractical

dreamers to sensors

Intuition

• Sensing types will often list objects in

the picture (calendar, cow,

couple, hen, golden egg)

• Intuitive types will often report the

overall feel of the picture (happy

surprise, people look shocked, little farm

town)

What do you see in this picture?


3 4 5 6 7 8 910

21

S N

Key Words

Sensing

FactsRealisticSpecificPresent

KeepPracticalWhat is

IdeasImaginative

GeneralFuture

ChangeTheoretical

What could be

Intuitition


We all do Sensing and Intuitive things.



over the other.

Where Do You Fit?


Sensing or Intuition?

Sensing

Intuition

Thinking and Feeling

T FThe process we use to make decisions and the

way we organize and prioritize information


Thinking

• Make their decisions based on impersonal, objective logic

• Focus on problems and tasks

• When required, can fire or reprimand people

• Believe fairness, justice, and equitability are very important

• May seem cold and detached to Feeling types

• Use a person-centered, values-based process

• Focus on relationships• Have difficulty telling

people unpleasant things• Believe fairness means

treating each individual as a whole person

• May seem overly emotional & irrational to Thinking types

Feeling

TERRIBLE!! My boss yelled at me because I turned my work in 5 minutes late, and I have way too much to do, and I’m so frustrated because I don’t

want her to think I am a bad employee, and I think she hates me!

Aww, I’m so sorry you’re upset. I’m here if you need

an ear to listen, a shoulder to cry on, or anything

else…


FT

What has caused this person to become upset, and how can it be reasonably

fixed?

How was your day today?

Huh?????? Um… Ok…???

My time management skills are fine, and I can handle my work load!! I know

everything will be ok… I just had a really bad day, and I need to vent. I

don’t need you to fix it…

Maybe it would be a good idea to look at how you manage your time so that you don’t get your work in late again, and

perhaps you could talk to her about your work load if it is still too much after that.Warning!!

What you are about to see is a dramatization portrayed by trained

actors! It illustrates a very stereotypical conversation

between Thinking and Feeling types…

Key Words

Thinking

HeadDistantThings

ObjectiveCritiqueAnalyze

Firm but fair

HeartPersonalPeople

SubjectivePraise

UnderstandMerciful

Feeling


We all do Thinking and Feeling things.



over the other.

Where Do You Fit?


Thinking or Feeling?

Thinking

Feeling

Judging and Perceiving

J PHow we organize our environment and how

we plan and complete tasks


Judging

• Want the external world to be organized and orderly

• Look at the world and see decisions that need to be made

• Like getting things settled and finished

• Like to plan ahead to avoid a rush

• Often cling to plans and dislike interruptions, even for important matters

• May make decisions too quickly• May seem rigid, demanding and

inflexible to Perceiving types

• Seek to experience the world, not organize it

• Look at the world and see options that need to be explored

• Like to leave things open, gather more information

• Tend to think there is plenty of time

• Often have many unfinished projects and have trouble planning

• May have trouble deciding• May seem disorganized and

irresponsible to Judging types

Perceiving


3

4

5

DEADLINE

2

1

J PDEADLINE

Key Words

Judging

OrganizedDecisionControl

NowClosure

DeliberatePlan

FlexibleInformationExperience

LaterOptions

SpontaneousWait

Perceiving


We all do Judging and Perceiving things.



over the other.

Where Do You Fit?


Judging or Perceiving?

Judging

Perceiving

Now….

You should have chosen one letter from each of the following options to give you a Self-

Estimate Type.

E or I

S or N

T or F

J or P

The 16 Types

ISTJ ISFJ INFJ INTJ

ISTP ISFP INFP INTP

ESTP ESFP ENFP ENTP

ESTJ ESFJ ENFJ ENTJ

Levels of Confidence in Personal Type

True Type

Best Fit Type

Self Estimate and Reported Type

Expectations

• 2/3–3/4 of any group will agree with their reported type and the general description of their type.

• When people disagree, it’s usually on one preference—and often one on which they had a “slight” result.

• When people report having changed type, it is likely that they have had an incorrect administration—the “mind-setting” was not done properly, resulting in the reporting of “work type” or “ideal self.”

Type Distribution

ISTJ; 11.60%

ISTP; 5.40%

ESTP; 4.30%

ESTJ; 8.70%

ISFJ; 13.80%

ISFP; 8.80%ESFP; 8.50%

ESFJ; 12.30%

INFJ; 1.50%

INFP; 4.30%

ENFP; 8.10%

ENFJ; 2.40%

INTJ; 2.10%

INTP; 3.30% ENTP; 3.20%ENTJ; 1.80%

16 Types

I Hope You Have Enjoyed Learning About Type Today

"The great events of world history are, at bottom, profoundly unimportant. In the last analysis, the essential thing is the life of the individual. This alone makes history, here alone do the great transformations first take place, and the whole future, the whole history of the world, ultimately

spring as a gigantic summation from these hidden sources in individuals. In our most private and most subjective lives we are not only the passive witnesses of our age, and its sufferers,

but also its makers. We make our own epoch." ~ C.G. Jung

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