mbtiworkshop(jan2010)

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)(MBTI)

Goals for this workshop:Goals for this workshop:

History of MBTI

Review your MBTI Results

Complete “My Best Fit Worksheet” verify your true type

Review personality type handouts provide career options chosen by your type

Understanding MBTI….Understanding MBTI….

• You can and should have a career you love

• The secret to loving your work….

• do what you naturally enjoy most

Understanding MBTI….Understanding MBTI….

• To find out what work you would love, you need to know yourself

• One way of know yourself is through personality assessments

• MBTI • Personality Dimensions

History of MBTI…History of MBTI…

one of the most widely used self-report inventories

based upon Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung’s (1875-1961) notion of psychological types

He believed that differences between people are not random, instead they form patterns – types

The MBTI was first developed by Isabel Briggs Myers and her mother, Katherine Cook Briggs in 1943

Why do we use it?Why do we use it?

- Knowing your preferences could enable you to find satisfaction in your career and better understand other people

Psychological Type…Psychological Type… Is NOT about skills, intelligence, abilities, or expertise

Does NOT tell you what you should or can do… ….and what you shouldn't or can’t do

People are influenced by more than their ‘Type’ environment culture education and training interests and motivations

Activity # 1Activity # 1

The MBTI ConnectionThe MBTI Connection

Your PREFERRED hand

Feels natural, you didn’t think about it, it was effortless, looks neat and legible

Your NONPREFERRED hand

Feels unnatural, had to concentrate, was awkward, looks childlike

The MBTIThe MBTI

Measures your preferences on four different scales

Extraversion How do you prefer to direct and get energy?

Introversion

Sensing How do you prefer to take in information?

INtuition

Thinking How do you prefer to make decisions?

Feeling

Judging How do you prefer to live your life everyday?

Perceiving

There is no right or wrong to MBTI results

Each preference and type identifies valuable

human behaviours

Verifying Your ResultsVerifying Your Results

Using the sheet My “Best Fit” Worksheet, fill in your preferences after we discuss each of the scales

Please keep in mind…Please keep in mind…

While both kinds of preferences are necessary and used by all people, each of us instinctively tends to favor one over the other

Extrovert / IntrovertExtrovert / Introvert

Where do you get your energy from?


Direct energy mostly to the people and things in the “outside world”

Work out ideas by talking them through

Direct energy mostly to the ideas in their minds

Work out ideas by reflecting on them


Find that they are easily distracted by what is going on around them

May like to be involved in many activities

Find that they can concentrate for long periods of time

May like to focus on one activity in depth and dislike interruptions


When at work…• prefer lots of people

contact• out-of-office activities• variety in their tasks

At parties…• Tend to stay late• increasing amounts of

energy

When at work…• prefer working alone• one-to-one people

contact• continuity and

concentration

At parties…• tend to leave early• decreased energy


Learn best through doing or discussing

Have broad interests

Readily take initiative in work and relationships

Learn best by reflection, mental ‘practice’

Focus in depth on their interests

Take initiative when the situation or issue is very important to them


Are ENERGIZED by lots of action, people and things

Acts first, thinks later

Lots of action, people and things DRAINS their energy

Thinks first, acts later

Which one would you say you prefer?

E or I?

Write it on your sheet

Sensing / ISensing / INNtuitiontuition

How do you prefer to take in information?


Activity #2

(picture)


Are often seen as..• realistic • Practical• good at grasping

facts and details

Are often seen as…• imaginative • Insightful• good at grasping the

big picture


Focus more on the present

Often patient and careful with precise work and routine, want to master a skill

Focus more on the future

Often patient in projects with many intangibles and possibilities, enjoy new ways of doing things


Factual and concrete

Observe and remember specifics

Trust experience

Imaginative and verbally creative

Remember specifics when they relate to a pattern

Trust inspiration


S or N?


Thinking / FeelingThinking / Feeling

How do you prefer to make decisions?


Prefer to understand experience through logical thinking

Analytical

Prefer to understand experience in the context of human relationships

Empathetic


Use cause-and-effect reasoning

Solve problems with logic

Reasonable

Guided by personal values

Assess impacts of decisions on people

Compassionate


Seek…• objective truth• fairness• regardless of effects• may be seen as firm

Seek…• harmony• cooperation• sometimes ignoring

the consequences• may be seen as

warm and understanding


Can be “tough-minded”

Fair – want everyone treated equally

Decides with the head

May appear “tenderhearted”

Fair – wants everyone treated as an individual

Decides with the heart


T or F?


Judging / PerceivingJudging / Perceiving

How do you prefer to live everyday life?


Value order, structure, predictability

Like the completion of a task (check it off the list)

Value spontaneity and the challenge of dealing with the unexpected

Don’t want to rush closure


Finish tasks…• well before a

deadline• check it off the list

Finish tasks…• at the deadline• have a last-minute

rush of adrenaline to complete the task


Organize their lives

Systematic

Methodical

Make short and long-term plans

Flexible

Casual

Open-ended

Adapt, change course easily


Likes to have things decided

Try to avoid last minute stresses

Like things loose and open to change

Feel energized by last-minute pressures


J or P?


MBTI Card GameMBTI Card Game

Clear off a space in front of you

Keep the worksheet out

You will fill in each space in the “card game” line

TypeFocusTypeFocus

You will now receive your results from the TypeFocus assessment that you took during your intake session

Write the four letters on your sheet Are they different?

MBTI ResultsMBTI Results

Now you will get the results of your MBTI assessment

It may be the same or different from what you have on your worksheet

MBTI ResultsMBTI Results

Take a moment find and read your preference type (s) on the back of the results sheets

Complete the My ‘Best Fit’ section of the worksheet once you have verified your decision


Activity #3

(Who stays, Who goes?)


Activity #4

(Plan a Trip)

PREFERENCES AND CAREERSPREFERENCES AND CAREERSEXTRAVERTS

Are attracted to careers…• where action and

interaction are important• business• sales / marketing• personal services• food services• public relations• government

INTROVERTS

Are attracted to career…• where ideas are

important• college teaching• science research• library work• computers• mechanical work• electronics• engineering

SENSING

Are attracted to careers…• where production,

management of a business or service is important

• Construction• office details and

accounting• patient care• police and military• similar hands-on activities

to solve immediate problems

INTUITIVE

Are attracted to careers…• where communication or

theory are important• Counselling• Journalism• Teaching• writing and art• Religion• Science• Research• law • long-range planning in

business or policy development

THINKING

Attracted to careers… • skilled trades and crafts• science and technology• computers• production• management• law• police• criminal justice work

FEELING

Attracted to careers…• teaching• health care• clerical and office work• personal and human

services• communication• entertainment• counselling• ministry

JUDGING

Attracted to work settings…• where plans, system,

order, and deadlines are important

• tasks where they can assume responsibility

PERCEIVING

Attracted to work settings…• where change,

flexibility and innovation are important

• tasks where they can work independently

MBTI and CareersMBTI and Careers

Supplemental information provided…• About your preference type• Possible career occupations

Highlight occupations to research

Questions?

Comments?

Concerns?

Thank you!

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Documents

mbti resultscomplete

typeunderstanding mbti

mostunderstanding mbti

mbti resultseach preference

patterns typesthe mbti

people contactout

people contactcontinuity

best fit worksheet