THE SIXTEEN TYPES AT A GLANCE:

Contributions to Workplace or Spiritual Community ISTJ ISFJ INFJ INTJ

o Being dutiful and responsible o Providing stability, improving o Understanding the feelings o Envisioning systems or conservers of tradition efficiency and motivations of others adjusting strategies to create a

o Having hardworking, o Offering sensible and matter- o Finding creative ways for better world dependable, and pragmatic of-fact attention to daily con- people to accomplish and o Breaking new ground, shift-habits cerns of people enjoy tasks ing paradigms, and changing

o Using past experience effec- o Adding a sense of dignity and o Lending future-oriented ideas the way people think tively respect to the community to planning and development o Synthesizing diverse informa-

o Bringing order and logic to o Honoring commitments; oth- o Offering insights about how tion and viewpoints what they do ers can rely on them individuals and systems inter- o Pushing others toward their

relate goals

ISTP ISFP INFP INTP • Finding expeditious ways to • Providing caring, gentle, o Bringing a compassionate, o Searching relentlessly for uni-handle a project, dispensing behind-the-scenes help caring, and personal focus versal truths with red tape

o Meeting individual needs o Reminding others of their o Determining the long-term o Grasping reality to trouble- personally and genuinely values and the worthiness of consequences of any given ,shoot and solve problems

o Giving immediate, direct striving to meet them plan or strategy for action o Setting an example of help to people o Providing a positive vision for o Providing clear, analytical authenticity, pointing out

o Sharing concrete, practical, the future frameworks for understand-hypocrisy and precise information o Enriching others with creative ing

o Sharing a storehouse of facts when asked ideas o Contributing intellectual and details when asked about insights their special interests

ESTP ESFP EN FP ENTP o Paying attention to what o Reminding others how to o lnitiatin and promoting o Initiating new projects, direc. needs doing/fixing right now appreciate each other and all ideas to h others grow tion, etc. with enthusiasm

o Meeting practical needs in they have o Adding vision, warmth, and and energy

the most efficient way o Being generous with time and enthusiasm to community o Providing insight and imagi-o Reminding others of the joys talents undertakings nation to tasks and projects of this life, at this present o Communicating warmth, o Conn resources, espe- o Exhibiting resourcefulness in time excitement, and acceptance cially peo eand ideas dire or complicated situations

o Solving problems in a o Keeping track of many things o Sparkill .. a sense of excite- o Debating, asking the tough straightforward, logical man- at once ment and am-enture questions ner

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ESTJ ESFJ EN FJ ENTJ o Organizing to meet day-to- o Preserving traditions from o Monito values and o Developing long-range plans day concerns one generation to the next integrity for people and organizations

o Demonstrating consistent o Making people feel welcome o Supportin others with o Understanding how parts habits based on principles and valued-gracious and warmth and encouragement relate to the whole

o Insisting that "hard ques- giving to others o Believin in the positive o Bringing a logical order to tions" be answered and acted o Knowing what matters for nature of people problems upon people and organizations

o Articulatin messages that o Offering intellectual and o Following through to see that o Handling tasks efficiently, others want or need to hear philosophical insights tasks are done correctly, promptly, and accurately results are seen

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The Sixteen Personality Types:Contributions To Workplace or Spiritual Community

THE SIXTEEN TYPES AT A GLANCE:

Preferred Settings for Work or Service IS TJ IS F J INFJ INTJ • Quiet atmosphere that allows • Secure, predictable, organized • Meaningful, service-oriented • Decisive, intellectually chal-for privacy setting VISIon · lenging, effective co-workers

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• Goals met at a steady pace • Caring, responsible, courteous • Considerate, harmonious co- who take a long-range view

• Experienced, committed co- co-workers workers who share similar of issues

workers • Stable, enduring organizations values • Room for creativity, indepen-

• Expectations known: dear, where the emphasis is on serv- • Rewards for individual integ- dence, and autonomy

well-documented procedures ing others, not competitiveness rity, creativity, and insights • Emphasis on problem-solv-

• Stable assignments and • Roles and responsibilities are • Private space for quiet and ing, outside-the-box thinking

responsibilities dear reflection • Private space for reflection • Calm, quiet, private atrno- • Opportunities for individual- • Willingness to implement sphere ized approaches ground-breaking ideas

ISTP ISFP INFP INTP • Minimal rules and require- • Organizations that contribute • Values, as inspiration and • Emphasis on using systems ments, emphasis on auto- to community and/or indi- motivation, are upheld and and models to rationally solve nomy vidual well-being acted out complex problems

• Little red tape or roadblocks • Adaptable, flexible, and • Service to a larger, common • Rewards for self-direction, to efficiency accepting setting purpose creativity

• Hands-off, egalitarian norms • Empathetic, cooperative, sup- • Artistic spaces for quiet and • Scholarly, competent co-• Action-oriented co-workers, portive, harmony-seeking co- reflection workers focused on immediate prob- workers • Friendly, committed, values- • Maximum flexibility, mini-lems • Quiet, private, aesthetically oriented co-workers mal policies and procedures

• Logic and principles are appealing atmosphere • Flexibility and creativity empha- • Private spaces and time for upheld • Emphasis on practical tasks sized over routine and structure thought

ESTP ESFP ENFP ENTP • Goals are dear yet flexibility • Spontaneous yet stable and • Stimulating, forward-looking • Flexible, change-oriented,

exists in how they are met secure workplace creative team environment entrepreneurial efforts or • Lively, results-oriented co- • Energetic, easygoing co-work- • Flexible, imaginative co- organizations workers who believe that work ers workers focused on possibili- • Highly competent, effective, and fun can coexist • Clear roles and responsibilities ties competitive co-workers

• Casual, non-bureaucratic but room to carry them out • A variety of people, tasks, and . • Strategic, big-picture focus organization with flair or style perspectives • Freedom to act or change

• Emphasis on tangible facts, • Collaborative, team orienta- • New, challenging pursuits • Rewards for risk-taking and logical processes tion brainstormed and launched innovation

• Latest, best resources available • Lively, interactive, colorful • Room for spontaneity, friend-to accomplish work efficiehtly surroundings ship, flair

ESTJ ESFJ ENFJ ENTJ • Place for everyone/everything • Stable, efficient settings that • Community or social service • Focus on pressing issues or and everything in its place value loyalty, teamwork, and orientation with strong ideals problems, with rewards for

• Past, relevant experience is sensitivity • Sociable co-workers who meeting them honored • Practical systems and struc- focus on the common good • Large-scale projects, chal-

• Hierarchical structure based tures oriented toward people • Harmonious, supportive, cre- lenges, or organizations on logic of function, order as well as goals ative environment • Efficient structures and people

• Stable, efficient, and pre- • Conscientious, cooperative, • Clear, results-oriented organi- in alignment with master plan dictable friendly co-workers zations that respond to peo- • Dedicated, tough-minded,

• With hardworking, task- • Facts and values are both pIe's needs confident, competent co-oriented co-workers who considered • Room for personal growth, workers plan times for fun • Decisiveness is honored self-expression • Logical, orderly, analytical

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