MyersBriggs Type Indicator MBTI

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Myers-Briggs Type IndicatorMBTI

• UNB Saint John Co-op Program
• Professional Development Workshop
• September 3, 2003

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Experiencing TypeAgenda

• Introduction to Myers-Briggs
• Experience the preferences
• Self-assessment of type
• Distribution of the interpretive reports
• Homework for tomorrow mornings session

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Introduction to Myers-BriggsPersonality Type
Indicator

• Carl Jung developed a framework to describe basic
  individual preferences and explain some
  similarities and differences between people.
• Two basic assumptions of his framework
• Behaviour is predictable
• People are born with behaviour preferences

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What are preferences?

• Preferences are how we would choose if given free
  reign.
• Preferences affect what we pay attention to
  around us and how we perceive the actions of
  others.

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Why should we care?

• Gaining insight into personality
• Reduces your defensiveness when involved in a
  disagreement
• Increases your openness to feedback (clues) from
  what is going on around you
• Improves your ability to see others more
  accurately.
• Appreciating differences in yourself helps you
  appreciate differences in others.
• Improves your ability to choose realistic goals.

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Origins of the MBTI

• Isabel Myers and Katherine Briggs expanded on
  Jungs work by developing an instrument to help
  people identify preferences. MBTI is
• A tried and tested framework to help us
  understand human behaviour
• Not a test!
• Based on a sample of nearly 5 million respondents
  and over 50 years of research

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People express preferences in four independent
areas
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Interaction Exercise

• In your group, discuss what you like to do in
  your free time after the week at work or school.
• Be ready to report back in 10 minutes.
• Write down everyones responses.
• Note similarities and differences in answers.
• Interaction Groups
• Individual Roles for Group Discussion

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CAUTION

• Words used to describe preferences in psychology
  do not mean the same thing as they do in everyday
  life.

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Interaction Preference

• Most people who prefer Extroversion
• Like variety action
• Do their thinking by talking to other people
• Act quickly, sometimes without reflecting
• Like to see how other people do a job work in a
  team
• Want to know what others expect of him or her

• Most people who prefer Introversion
• Like quiet, reflection
• Do their thinking privately before talking to
  others
• Take time to consider before acting will try to
  understand before trying
• Like to understand the idea of the job work
  alone or just with a few people
• Want to set their own standard

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Information Gathering Exercise

• In your group, discuss the picture
• Record what everyone said about the picture
• Be ready to present in 10 minutes
• Information Gathering Groups II
• Group Discussion Roles
• Pictures
• Alternative Exercise

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Information Gathering Preference

• Most people who prefer Sensing
• Focus on what is real and actual
• Value practical applications
• Are factual concrete
• Observe and remember sense data and details
• Are present-oriented
• Trust experience distrust intuitive insight

• Most people who prefer Intuition
• Focus on possibilities
• Value imagination
• Are abstract theoretical
• See patterns and meaning in facts
• Are future-oriented
• Trust insight and minimize the value of experience

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Decision-Making Exercise

• Answer the questions in your groups.
• Record everyones answers
• Be ready to present in 20 minutes
• Groups III
• Group Discussion Roles
• Questions

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Exercise Summary

• Groups 1 2 want to be recognized for things
  that can be evaluated objectively
• Competence, achievements
• Value recognition only when it comes from someone
  they respect
• Want to be given more work and responsibility
• Decide quicker, expect people to speak up if they
  disagree

• Group 3 has a personalized, people oriented point
  of view
• Personal touch in giving receiving appreciation
• Accomplishments reflect who they are as a person
• Take special satisfaction in contributing to the
  well-being of others
• Note or personal comment
• Decisions take longer, seeking concensus

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Decision-Making Preference

• Most people who prefer Thinking
• Analyze readily
• Focus on logical problem-solving
• Use cause-effect reasoning
• Strive for an impersonal, objective truth
• Seen as tough-minded
• Value fairness, seek justice
• Justice everyone treated the same

• Most people who prefer Feeling
• Are sympathetic
• Assess decisions according to their personal
  values
• Focus on impacts on people
• Strive for harmony and individual validation
• Seen as tender-hearted
• Are compassionate and accepting
• Justice everyone treated according to their
  needs

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Life Style Exercise

• In your groups, discuss what you do to get ready
  to go on vacation.
• Record everyones responses
• Be ready to present in 5 minutes
• Life Style Groups IV
• Group Discussion Roles

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Life Style Preference

• Most people who prefer Judging
• like to make a plan, to have things settled and
  decided
• Try to make things come out the way they should
• Strive to finish one project before starting
  another
• Usually have their mind made up
• May decide things too quickly
• Want to be right
• Live by rules and schedules not easily changed

• Most people who prefer Perceiving
• Prefer to stay flexible and avoid fixed plans
• Deal easily with unplanned and unexpected
  happenings
• Start many projects but may have trouble
  finishing them
• Usually looking for new information
• May decide things too slowly
• Want to miss nothing
• Live by adjusting to deal with problems as they
  occur

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Wrap-Up

• Self-assessment of type
• Distribution of the interpretive reports
• Poll results
• Review page five
• Best-fit type
• Type Table
• Hand-in self assessed type
• Handout homework for tomorrow morning