MyersBriggs Personality Type Indicator MBTI

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This test measures your characteristics,
strengths and tendencies. There are no
right or wrong types.

• Although you receive a type, you are still a
  UNIQUE INDIVIDUAL!

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Why should we care?

• Benefits Gain insights into personality
• Enhance your ability to understand and appreciate
  differences in yourself and in others
• Improve
• Communication
• Relationships
• Conflicts
• Leadership

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Innate Preferences

• Exercise
• Write your name

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The 4 Different Scales

• Extroversion (E)------------Introversion (I)
• Sensing (S)-----------------Intuitive (N)
• Feeling (F)------------------Thinking (T)
• Judging (J)------------------Perceiving (P)

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Terms

• Extrovert IS NOT talkative or loud
• Introvert IS NOT shy or inhibited
• Feeling IS NOT emotional
• Judging IS NOT judgmental
• Perceiving IS NOT perceptive

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Extrovert - Introvert

• How you get and use your energy?

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Extroversion

• Focus on outer world/external events
• Direct energy and attention outward
• Receive energy from external events, interactions
• Prefer to communicate by talking
• Learn best through doing and discussing
• Breath of interests and acquaintances
• Tend to speak first, reflect later
• Sociable and expressive
• Take initiative in work and relationships

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Introversion

• Focus on inner world of ideas and experiences
• Direct energy and attention inward
• Receive energy from their internal thoughts,
  reflections
• Prefer to communicate by writing
• Learn best by reflection, mental practice
• Depth of interest and relationships
• Tend to reflect before acting or speaking
• Focused

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Sensing Intuitive

• How do you take in information?

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Sensing

• Take in information through senses
• Observant of what is going on around them
• Focus on what is real/actual
• Factual/concrete
• Present-oriented
• Like step-by-step info
• Trust experience

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Intuitive

• See the big picture
• See new possibilities and different ways of doing
  things
• Value imaginative insight
• Abstact and theoretical
• See meaning in facts
• Future-oriented
• Jump around, leap from one project to the next
• Trust inspiration

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Thinking - Feeling

• How do you make decisions?

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Thinking

• Decision based on, Is it logical?
• Objective, mentally remove self from situation
• Analytical
• Logical problem solvers
• Use cause-and-effect reasoning
• Tough-minded
• Strive for impersonal, objective truth
• Reasonable
• Fair

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Feeling

• Decision is based on how it will affect people
• Subjective criteria, depends on circumstances
• Mentally place self in a situation so to identify
  with others
• Goal of harmony and recognition of individuals
• Sympathetic, understanding
• Guided by personal values
• Tender-hearted
• Compassionate
• Acceptiing

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Judging - Perceiving

• How do you organize your life?

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Judging

• Like making decisions
• Live in planned, orderly way
• Like closure-to have things decided
• Want to control and regulate things
• Avoid last-minute stresses
• Value punctuality

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Perceiving

• Flexible and spontaneous
• Interruptible, shift gears easily
• Plans and decisions confine them
• Adapt-as-you-go
• See time as opportunity
• Can handle chaos
• Like things loose and open to change - anxious
  after reaching a decision
• Feel energized by last minute stresses

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• Thank You!