Understanding Yourself

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Understanding Yourself Others

• Dr Alan McAlpine
• Head, Careers Employment

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Postgraduate Careers
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Postgraduate Careers

• Web Pages (via www.careers.qut.edu.au)
• Eight Attributes of Highly successful postdocs
• Seminars
• Workshops
• Understanding Myself Others
• Student Portfolio
• Job Seeking Skills
• Career Counselling (booked appts)

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Career Planning Model
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Exercise

• On a piece of paper write down your Name
• A colour that fits with you
• A car that is appropriate to your self image
• A fictional character you identify with

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Myers Briggs Type Indicator

• MBTI

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What is MBTI?

• Self Reporting Questionnaire
• Based on Carl Jungs theory of psychological
  types.
• Used for self knowledge
• Strengths
• Unique gifts
• Motivations
• Growth areas

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Jungs Theory

• Based on preferences in how we use our minds
• Our mind is usually doing one of two things
• Perceiving taking in information
• Judging or ordering information to make a
  decision

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Two Functions

• Perceiving
• Sensing
• Intuition
• Judging
• Thinking
• Feeling
• We all use both but we do have preferences.

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Experiencing the processes

• Extraversion
• Externally in the environment
• People and experiences
• Introversion
• Internally
• Thought and reflection
• People tend to be drawn to one type of environment

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Myers - Briggs

• Katherine Briggs
• Isobel Briggs-Myers
• Mother and Daughter
• Made Jung's theory more accessible
• Added a fourth dimension

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MBTI Scales

• Where you focus your attention
• Extraversion Introversion
• How you take in information
• Sensing Intuition
• How you make a decision
• Thinking Feeling
• How you position yourself in the world
• Judging Perceiving
• Results in 16 possible combinations

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Why use it?

• Differences in our own types and preferences and
  that of others impact on our work and
  relationship requirements and conflicts. They are
  a result of how we each perceive and adapt to the
  world.
• The better we understand the differences we can
  work with them to reduce conflict and enable
  creativity.

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Identifying Behaviours in Others

• Understanding other peoples behavioural
  tendencies allows you to modify your own
  behaviour to enhance interactions
• In any situation you can observe the behaviour of
  the people around you
• Remember that people respond differently in
  different environments
• People are unique and we really cant know
  anyones preferences of behaviour for sure

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Dealing with your supervisor

• In pairs discuss your possible MBTI preferences
• Consider the challenges that may arise should
  each of you encounter the other in a
  student-supervisor relationship
• How would you modify your own behaviour to allow
  you both to get maximum out of the interaction?

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Postgraduate Careers

• Web Pages (via www.careers.qut.edu.au)
• Eight Attributes of Highly successful postdocs
• Seminars
• Workshops
• Understanding Myself Others
• Student Portfolio
• Job Seeking Skills
• Career Counselling (booked appts)

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Thank You