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Myers-Briggs Personality
Types&
Team Dynamics
Myers-Briggs PT & Team Dynamics
• Objectives:1-Identify your own preferences and understand your opposite
preference2- Know how to treat each MBTI type effectively3- Cues for improving team dynamics through effective task
assignment and communication with all the 4 types.
• All personality types are God’s creation.
• No specific personality type is better than another.
• All personality types change and develop.
• Each personality type is unique in its strengths and weaknesses.
• Understanding your personality type will help you develop.
• Understanding the personality type of those around will help you understand their behavior.
General Principles:
• Different personality types complement one another.
• No specific personality type is more important or preferred in a workplace.
• Our innate preference change, yet remains our favorite or comfort zone.
• The 4 categories are present in all human beings but used with specific preference according to the personality type.
General Principles:
TEAM DYNAMICS
• How Do You Recognize Team Dynamics1 ?
Personality Types
Team Roles
Tools & Technology (emails, social networking tools, …etc.)
Processes/Methodology/ Procedures (e.g: problem solving methodology)
Office Layout
TEAM DYNAMICS
Importance of Knowing Personality Types
Within TeamsEffective Role Assignment
Effective Work Performance
Effective Communication
Achievin
g Goals
MBTI - History
• Sign with each hand once.
• What is your preference?
Worksheet 1
Influencing Factors
• Draw your favorite place at homeWorksheet 2
Extrovert Vs. IntrovertWhat experts say:
• We all use both our introverted and extroverted skills, but we are hard wired to be more one than the other,” says psychotherapist and author Marti Olsen Laney.
• Though most of us are either extroverts or introverts, we all display both extroverted and introverted personality traits, depending on the situation.
Extroverts• Prefer verbal contact• Responsive to other people• Love social interaction• Express their opinion freely• Think aloud• Love group work• Amidst the activity• Get energy from other people• Active• Enthusiastic• Initiator• Dependable• Can’t stand routine• Share personal life with others
Introverts• Think before speaking• Independent• Quiet• Prefer small groups• Fewer friends• Keep personal life private• Limited interaction• Great listeners• Prefer written contact• Hate interruption• Not initiators• Deep thinking• Good at observation• Love working alone• Don’t prefer discussions
What do you appreciate
in your opposite preference?
• Draw the way from your place to the airportWorksheet 3
Sensors• Gather information through the five senses• Notice fine details• Clear description• Learn through facts• Prefer precise answers• Work in steps• Practical• Organized• Work with detailed instructions with steps to follow• Love application• Repetitive tasks• Live in the present
Sensor
• Give detailed instructions (emails/meetings)• Work with daily planners• Link new initiatives with current conditions• Explain opposite preference found at workplace to
avoid conflicts
• Important to appreciate one another•Assign work that needs attention to details
How to care for a Sensor?
iNtuitives• Rely on gut feeling• Good at theoretical concepts• Imagination-driven tasks• Hate repetition• Creative solutions• General descriptions• Big picture• Draw to conclusions swiftly• Rely on prior experience• Live in the future• Favor new tasks• Explore possibilities
iNtuitive
• Involve in the big picture (general strategies)• Work with weekly or monthly planners• Explain opposite preference found at workplace to
avoid conflicts• Important to appreciate one another• Assign work that needs creative thinking
(brainstorming)• Don’t give too much details (feel stupid)
How to care for an iNtuitive?
What do you appreciate
in your opposite preference?
Feelers• Warm• Friendly (people persons)• Care about their feelings as well as others• Harmony is vital• Aim at gaining other people’s respect• Avoid conflicts• Diplomatic• Love appreciation• Sensitive• Persuasion based on feelings• Subjective
Thinkers• Cool• Analytical Thinking• Problem-solver• Objective criteria• Realist• Justice over mercy• Practical solutions• Firm and fair• Appreciates truth• Motivated by achievement• Not diplomatic• No consideration for others’ feelings
• Give a pat on the back• Leave a post-it with a happy face• Thank their hard work• Let them feel appreciated• Don’t criticize their work (personal insult)• Create a harmonious working environment for them• Let them feel their feelings are considered• Avoid office politics and interruptions
How to care for a Feeler?
• A raise or promotion• Appreciation with physical impact • Performance statistics• Think of criticism as a problem that needs a solution• Not offended by criticism• Be true to them• Justice should be achieved• Equal opportunities
How to care for a Thinker?
What do you appreciate
in your opposite preference?
Judgers• Prefer structure and routine• Tend to be clear, unambiguous• Look for clear parameters in order to act• Need to know the procedures of doing a task• Direct, decisive• Can be considered as bossy, inflexible• Orderliness, structured• Meets deadlines easily• Very neat, organized and tidy
Perceivers• Thrive on spontaneity and possibilities• Have a higher comfort level with ambiguity• Lack of clear parameters with regard to tasks• Focus on the outcome of tasks• Likes to be trusted with the procedures • Flexible, accommodating• Can be seen as indirect, indecisive, disorganized• Like to take the side road to explore new possibilities• Deals with deadlines when necessary
• Clear guidelines on how to perform a task• Assign deadlines, schedules (specific time, date)• Likes to be in control (Assign to leading roles)• Don’t surprise them • Need structure and predictability• Neat and tidy workplace• Assign planning and organization tasks (set goals, make lists)• Explain the opposite preference to avoid conflicts
How to care for a Judger?
• Give them different possibilities to perform a task.• Assign them a task and let them explore the procedure
themselves.• Assign deadlines before the required time in case they fail to meet
the deadline.• Be decisive when needed as they don’t like to reach a final
decision.• Be flexible and casual when dealing with them• Can be assigned more than one project but must work with judgers
to be able to achieve the deadlines
How to care for a Perceiver?
What do you appreciate
in your opposite preference?
• Work in groups of 4 or 5 to design a small project
Before you start:• Assign an observer in each group• Assign a group leader
Worksheet 4
What Are Your 4 Letters?
Myers Briggs personality types
• Rule #1Know & understand your team’s preferences
• Rule #2Explain the opposite preferences to resolve conflicts and avoid future misunderstandings
• Rule #3Emphasize the importance of complimenting
one another
General Guidelines for Excellent Team Dynamics
TEAM TYPE ANALYSIS
• Rule #4Encourage people to adapt to the opposite
preference when needed
(Work on weaknesses)• Rule #5
Assign and re-assign tasks according to members’ preferences
• Rule #6Plan methods to utilize all strengths of
members’ preferences
General Guidelines for Excellent Team Dynamics
General Guidelines for Excellent Team Dynamics
• Rule #7Use your knowledge of MBTI pairs to
communicate effectively with your team • Rule #8Provide balance and give equal voice to all the
4 types• Rule #9
Consider how your preference will affect leading your group
“ Leaders fail utterly when they ignore the people aspect of work and start treating people as ‘resources’. When it comes to managing people, one size does not fit all. Each individual is unique. My simple formula is treat people “humans’ not as ‘resources’ and watch them deliver great results. (T. Vora, 2010)
