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Personality Types Self awareness Career development Team building Relationship Dealing with conflict

Uses of MBTI Understand yourself and your behavior Appreciate others and their contributions Make constructive use of differences

What Does It Do? Identifies preferences, not skills Open possibilities, not limit options All preferences are valuable All preferences can be used by each person

Areas for Improvement Potential pitfalls Suggestions for development

Personality Types Inborn tendencies Habits (comfort zone) Recognizable patterns Change and adapt Predictable responses To Change Conflict Stress

IMPORTANT!!!!! Everyone is unique Everyone uses every preference sometime We can all improve communications Relationships will improve with practice

Brain and Personality Brainstem Limbic System Frontal Cortex Instincts and Survival Limbic System Feelings and Emotions Frontal Cortex Thinking and Ideas 4 emotions – mad, sad, glad, and scared Amygdala - responsible for feeling of feeling – scared and mad start here

Extravert Sensing Thinking Judging Intravert Intuitive Feeling Myers-Briggs Extravert Sensing Thinking Judging Intravert Intuitive Feeling Perceiving

Terms Extravert IS NOT “talkative or loud” Introvert IS NOT “shy or inhibited” Feeling IS NOT “emotional” Judging IS NOT “judgmental” Perceiving IS NOT “perceptive”

Extravert - Introvert How you get and use your energy

Extravert - Introvert E – People, activity, talking (external world) Readily takes initiative “Act first, think later” Enjoys a wide variety and change in people and relationships Very approachable Develop ideas through discussion I – Thoughts, feelings, writing (internal world) Think/reflect first, then act Needs “private” time to reflect One-on-one relationship or conversations Great listeners Enjoys focusing on a project

Sensing (S) – Intuitive (N) How do you take in information?

Sensing (S) – Intuitive (N) S – Facts – real & tangible - now Carefully thought out conclusions Lives in the present “Do something” rather than “think about it” Fantasy is a dirty word Common sense solutions N – Possibilities – Inspiration - future Use personal feelings to make decisions Comfortable with fuzzy data Inventing new possibilities is automatic Sometimes considered absent-minded

Thinking (T) - Feeling (F) How do you make decisions?

Thinking (T) - Feeling (F) T – Decision through logic and truth More important to be right than liked Viewed as unemotional Focus on tasks Provides objective and critical analysis F - Decision through emotion Follow hunch to make quick conclusions Sensitive to feelings of others Toxic reaction to disharmony, prefer to accommodate Takes things too personally

Judging (J) - Perceiving (P) How do you organize your life?

Judging (J) - Perceiving (P) J – planned, orderly, reach closure quickly Get things done Punctual Likes to use a list, make plans Structure and order Works best and avoids stress when keeps ahead of deadlines and not given too much information at one time P – flexible, spontaneous, stay open Lives for the moment Works well under pressure and deadlines Creative Multitasks Avoids commitments, it interferes with flexibility