1. business and industrial

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
(MBTI)
Goals for this workshop:
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History of MBTI
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Review your MBTI Results
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Complete “My Best Fit Worksheet”
 verify your true type
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Review personality type handouts
 provide career options chosen by your type
Understanding MBTI….
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You can and should have a career you love
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The secret to loving your work….
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do what you naturally enjoy most
Understanding MBTI….
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To find out what work you would love, you need to
know yourself
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One way of know yourself is through personality
assessments
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MBTI
Personality Dimensions
History of MBTI…
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one of the most widely used self-report inventories
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based upon Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung’s (1875-1961) notion
of psychological types
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He believed that differences between people are not random,
instead they form patterns – types
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The MBTI was first developed by Isabel Briggs Myers and her
mother, Katherine Cook Briggs in 1943
Why do we use it?
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Knowing your preferences could enable you to find
satisfaction in your career and better understand
other people
Psychological Type…
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Is NOT about skills, intelligence, abilities, or expertise
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Does NOT tell you what you should or can do…
….and what you shouldn't or can’t do
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People are influenced by more than their ‘Type’
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environment
culture
education and training
interests and motivations
Activity # 1
The 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 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 Results
Using the sheet My “Best Fit” Worksheet, fill in your
preferences after we discuss each of the scales
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 / Introvert
Where do you get your energy from?
Extrovert / Introvert
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Direct energy mostly to
the people and things in
the “outside world”
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Direct energy mostly to
the ideas in their minds
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Work out ideas by
talking them through
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Work out ideas by
reflecting on them
Extrovert / Introvert
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Find that they are easily
distracted by what is
going on around them
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Find that they can
concentrate for long
periods of time
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May like to be involved
in many activities
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May like to focus on
one activity in depth
and dislike interruptions
Extrovert / Introvert
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When at work…
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• prefer lots of people
• prefer working alone
• one-to-one people
contact
• out-of-office activities
• variety in their tasks
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At parties…
• Tend to stay late
• increasing amounts of
energy
When at work…
contact
• continuity and
concentration
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At parties…
• tend to leave early
• decreased energy
Extrovert / Introvert
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Learn best through
doing or discussing
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Learn best by reflection,
mental ‘practice’
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Have broad interests
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Focus in depth on their
interests
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Readily take initiative in
work and relationships
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Take initiative when the
situation or issue is very
important to them
Extrovert / Introvert
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Are ENERGIZED by
lots of action, people
and things
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Lots of action, people
and things DRAINS
their energy
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Acts first, thinks later
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Thinks first, acts later
Which one would you say you prefer?
E or I?
Write it on your sheet
Sensing / INtuition
How do you prefer to take in information?
Sensing / INtuition
Activity #2
(picture)
Sensing / INtuition
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Are often seen as..
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Are often seen as…
• realistic
• imaginative
• Practical
• Insightful
• good at grasping
• good at grasping the
facts and details
big picture
Sensing / INtuition
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Focus more on the
present
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Focus more on the
future
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Often patient and
careful with precise
work and routine, want
to master a skill
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Often patient in projects
with many intangibles
and possibilities, enjoy
new ways of doing
things
Sensing / INtuition
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Factual and concrete
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Imaginative and
verbally creative
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Observe and remember
specifics
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Remember specifics
when they relate to a
pattern
Trust inspiration
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Trust experience
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Which one would you say you prefer?
S or N?
Write it on your sheet
Thinking / Feeling
How do you prefer to make
decisions?
Thinking / Feeling
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Prefer to understand
experience through
logical thinking
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Prefer to understand
experience in the
context of human
relationships
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Analytical
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Empathetic
Thinking / Feeling
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Use cause-and-effect
reasoning
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Guided by personal
values
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Solve problems with
logic
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Assess impacts of
decisions on people
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Reasonable
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Compassionate
Thinking / Feeling
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Seek…
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Seek…
• objective truth
• harmony
• fairness
• cooperation
• regardless of effects
• sometimes ignoring
• may be seen as firm
the consequences
• may be seen as
warm and
understanding
Thinking / Feeling
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Can be “tough-minded”
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May appear
“tenderhearted”
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Fair – want everyone
treated equally
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Fair – wants everyone
treated as an individual
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Decides with the heart
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Decides with the head
Which one would you say you prefer?
T or F?
Write it on your sheet
Judging / Perceiving
How do you prefer to live everyday life?
Judging / Perceiving
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Value order, structure,
predictability
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Like the completion of
a task (check it off the
list)
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Value spontaneity and
the challenge of
dealing with the
unexpected
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Don’t want to rush
closure
Judging / Perceiving
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Finish tasks…
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Finish tasks…
• well before a
• at the deadline
deadline
• check it off the list
• have a last-minute
rush of adrenaline to
complete the task
Judging / Perceiving
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Organize their lives
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Flexible
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Systematic
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Casual
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Methodical
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Open-ended
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Make short and longterm plans
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Adapt, change course
easily
Judging / Perceiving
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Likes to have things
decided
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Like things loose and
open to change
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Try to avoid last minute
stresses
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Feel energized by lastminute pressures
Which one would you say you prefer?
J or P?
Write it on your sheet
MBTI Card Game
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Clear off a space in front of you
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Keep the worksheet out
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You will fill in each space in the “card game” line
TypeFocus
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You will now receive your results from the TypeFocus
assessment that you took during your intake session
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Write the four letters on your sheet
Are they different?
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MBTI 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 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
Thinking / Feeling
Activity #3
(Who stays, Who goes?)
Judging / Perceiving
Activity #4
(Plan a Trip)
PREFERENCES AND CAREERS
EXTRAVERTS
INTROVERTS
Are attracted to careers…
Are attracted to career…
• where action and
interaction are important
• business
• sales / marketing
• personal services
• food services
• public relations
• government
• where ideas are
important
• college teaching
• science research
• library work
• computers
• mechanical work
• electronics
• engineering
SENSING
INTUITIVE
Are attracted to careers…
Are attracted to careers…
• where production,
management of a business
or service is important
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Construction
office details and
accounting
patient care
police and military
similar hands-on activities
to solve immediate
problems
• where communication or
theory are important
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Counselling
Journalism
Teaching
writing and art
Religion
Science
Research
law
long-range planning in
business or policy
development
THINKING
FEELING
Attracted to careers…
Attracted to careers…
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skilled trades and crafts
science and technology
computers
production
management
law
police
criminal justice work
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teaching
health care
clerical and office work
personal and human
services
communication
entertainment
counselling
ministry
JUDGING
PERCEIVING
Attracted to work settings…
Attracted to work
settings…
• where plans, system,
order, and deadlines are
important
• tasks where they can
assume responsibility
• where change,
flexibility and
innovation are
important
• tasks where they can
work independently
MBTI and Careers
Supplemental information provided…
• About your preference type
• Possible career occupations
Highlight occupations to research
Questions?
Comments?
Concerns?
Thank you!