linking strengths and weaknesses: portraits of jung type behavior

Linking Strengths and Weaknesses: Portraits of Jung Type Behavior

Jennifer Tucker, Ph.D. OKA (Otto Kroeger Associates)(703) 591-6284www.typetalk.com [email protected]

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Setting the Stage

• Effective self-development and providing feedback to develop others requires:

– An openness to your own strengths and overdone strengths (also known as weaknesses).

– Understanding the connection between the two.

– Seeing the link between what you value, and what you most value in others.

• Leaders must both understand their own strengths and development needs, and coach others in understanding theirs.


Where Are Your Strengths? Blind Spots?What Do You See in Others?

• Energetic or Pushy?

• Calm or Withdrawn?

• Detailed or Nitpicky?

• Imaginative or Impractical?

• Analytical or Cold?

• Helpful or Subservient?

• Decisive or Too Bossy?

• Adaptable or Too Wishy Washy?

What you see as a strength in yourself may be perceived as a weakness by another.

What you perceive as a weaknesses in others may be a strength overdone.

What possible strength lies beneath what you see as a weakness?


Overview of Psychological Type

• Cognitive model concerned with hard-wired preferences for gathering information and making decisions

• Framework and vocabulary allowing people to speak more effectively about needs, expectations, preferences and styles

• The MBTI® Assessment, which focuses on psychological type preferences, is a very popular assessment for this model

• Broadening the focus from preference to behavior, in a very tactical way, helps people apply type principles: the Portraits of Jung Type Behavior™ provides a tool for this


The Preferences of Psychological Type

Scale Scale Descriptions E/I -

Energy Source

Extravert (E) Gain energy from outer world of people, action and things.

Introvert (I) Gain energy from inner world

of concepts and ideas.

S/N – Perceiving Function:

"Data Gathering"

Sensor (S) First perceive the immediate,

practical, real facts of experience. Collect here & now sensory information.

Intuitive (N) First perceive possibilities, patterns

and meanings of experience. Collect information through impressions.

T/F -

Judging Function: "Decision Making”

Thinker (T) Objective decision making.

Seek clarity by detaching themselves from problem; cause-effect oriented.

Feeler (F) Subjective decision making.

Seek harmony with inner values by placing themselves within problem.

J /P –

Outer World Orientation

Judger (J ) – Show external world

Judging mental function (T/F). Prefer to live in a decisive, planned way.

Perceiver (P) – Show external world

Perceiving mental function (S/N). Prefer to live in a spontaneous flexible way.

References: Rutledge, DH (2004) MBTI Introduction Workbook. OKA (Otto Kroeger Associates); Fairfax, VA


Overview of Portraits of Jung Type Behavior™

• Self-administered assessment

• Draws from both the theory of psychological type and Relationship Awareness Theory

• Highlights your behavioral choices, either in a whole-life focus, or in a specific area


Completing the Portraits

• Pick one set: Green or Orange. Separate the behavior stickers from the sheet you have chosen.

• Use the green stickers on the green portrait; the orange stickers on the orange portrait.

• Sort the stickers from top to bottom on the portrait, with one card per space: put the behaviors you use most frequently at the top, the ones you use least frequently at the bottom.

• Stickers on the same row have the same weight.

• You can score using the instructions on the Portraits.


Completing the Portraits


Applying the Portraits: Exercise

• Name a time when one of your top behaviors supported your success. What did you do? How did it work?

• Name a time when one of your underused behaviors (near the bottom of the list) could have been used to increase your effectiveness. What could you have done? Lesson learned?

• Each positive behavior is associated with an overdone one. Name a time when you OVERUSED a behavior. What happened, and what would you do differently next time?

• What practical development actions can you derive from this exercise?


Extending to Feedback Delivery

• Who do you need to deliver feedback to about what?

• What strengths or overdone strengths may be at work?

• What might explain the other person’s behavior in positive ways?

• What could you ask to explore root causes?


Three Guiding Questions: Use Them Often and Anytime!

• What’s working well? – What behaviors are strengths?

• What’s not working well? – What behaviors do I need more of, or less of?

• What should I do differently given this? – What actions could or should I take?


For More Information

• For more on the Portraits of Jung Type Behavior (JTB), by Hile Rutledge and Tim Scudder: www.typetalk.com. Click on Store, then select Portraits of Jung Type Behavior.

• To chat further, contact me!

Jennifer Tucker, Ph.D. Phone: (703) 591-6284 Email: [email protected] Twitter: @4tuckertalk

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