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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.