Your Personality, Your Career

Brent Green – Leadership Equip, LLC

Who Am I??

Adventurer

Relationship-Focused

Need Change Regularly

Risk-Taker

And…I’m aProud Father

Today’s Objectives

Determine your unique ‘Personality Type’

Help determine which careers and jobs could fit your personality

Talk through ways to improve career satisfaction

Group Exercise

What are some key attributes of your personality type?

What is Personality???

Career Satisfaction

Gallup Polls

77% of Americans hate their jobs

People are ‘more miserable’ in their jobs than 20 years ago

Why so much career dissatisfaction?

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator(MBTI)

MBTI Developed by

Katharine C. Briggsand

Isabel Briggs Myers

FOR Allies in World War II Helping people discover their gifts and

how to use them best

Based on Psychological Theory

….of Scientist Carl Jung

Psychological ‘Type’

Personality ‘type’ or MBTI ‘type’ comes from his work

Dimensions of MBTI

Extraversion - Introversion

Sensing - Intuition

Thinking - Feeling

Judging - Perceiving

MBTI

70 years of research

Most used personality assessment in the world

MBTI is used for

Self-Awareness Leadership DevelopmentCareer Development Team-Building Conflict Management

MBTI

Can help you to identify some of your key

Preferences Tendencies Characteristic

But not all of them…..

Extraversion - Introversion

Preference for

Getting Energy

Extraversion – Outside Self – Others

Introversion – Inside Self - Solitude

Key Descriptors

E Extraversion

Active Outward Sociable People Many Expressive Breadth

I Introversion

Reflective Inward Reserved Privacy Few Quiet Depth

Sensing - Intuiting

Preference for

Taking in Information

Sensing – Takes in Data from the 5 Senses

Intuitive – Takes in Data from a “sixth sense”

Key Descriptors

S• Sensing

• Details• Present• Practical • Facts• Sequential• Directions• Repetition• Enjoyment• Perspiration• Conserve• Literal

N• Intuition

• Patterns• Future• Imaginative• Innovations• Random• Hunches• Variety• Anticipation• Inspiration• Change• Figurative

Thinking - Feeling

Preference for

Making Decisions

Thinker – Logical, Structured, Objective

Feeler – Personal, Values-Oriented

Key Descriptors

T• Thinking• Head• Objective• Justice• Cool• Impersonal• Critique• Analyze• Precise• Principles

F• Feeling• Heart• Subjective• Harmony• Caring• Personal• Appreciate• Empathize• Persuasive• Values

Judging - Perceiving

Preference for

Living and Lifestyle Choices

Judging – Planned Living, Organized Life

Perceiving – Spontaneous and Flexible

Key Descriptors

J• Judging

• Organized• Structure• Control• Decisive• Deliberate• Closure• Plan• Deadlines• Productive

P• Perceiving

• Flexible• Flow• Experience• Curious• Spontaneous• Openness• Wait• Discoveries• Receptive

Self-Type

16 Possible Combinations

The Four Temperments

NF Intuitive Feelers

NT Intuitive Thinkers

SJ Sensing Judgers

SP Sensing Perceivers

NF = Intuitive Feelers

Eat, Sleep, Breathe PEOPLE

Idealists who serve causes that advance human interest

12 % of the population

“It is most important to be in harmony with self and others

NF = Intuitive Feelers

”NF’s at Work Can be so positive that it is difficult for

others to disagree As supervisors, they can give too

much leeway More concerned with how much they

like people than their qualifications “Hi, I’m an NF, and I’m here to help”

NT = Intuitive Thinkers Their driving force in their quest for

competence, is to theorize and intellectualize everything

12% of the population

“Change for the sake of change produces learning, even if the only thing we learn is that we shouldn’t have changed.”

NT = Intuitive Thinkers

NT’s at Work

Strategic planners and researchers they can overlook everyday business

Can be perceived by others as aloof and

an intellectual snob

SJ = Sensing Judger

SJ’s purpose in life is to belong to meaningful institutions

38% of the population

As judgers they tend to organize

SJ’s thrive on procedures

SJ = Sensing Judger

SJ’s at Work Make good administrators of systems

that require precision and organization

They do what needs to be done today-often neglecting what needs to be done tomorrow

Great faith in the systems, when things go wrong, it is also the system’s fault

“don’t fix what ain’t broke”

SP = Sensing Perceiver

Their quest is for action – act now, pay later

38% of the population

“authority” is getting done whatever needs to be done

forgiveness rather than permission

SP = Sensing Perceiver

SP’s at Work

Tend to avoid going through channels

Like immediate tangible outcomes

“when all else fails, read the directions”

Learning Team Type Analysis In this assignment, you will

analyze your learning team using the Myers Briggs Type Indicator. There are four issues to discuss in your learning team before you can prepare the presentation.

  Create a type table for your

learning team using the one in the Learning Team Type Analysis Table.

Identify commonalities/differences that exist among members.

Identify what strengths your group has as a result of your types.

Identify the challenges you will likely face as a group as a result of your types.