Types and Teams: Understanding and Using the Jung Typology BUS 302: The Gateway Experience

Uses of the Jung Typology Better understand your own and others’ behavior in teams. Develop a language for talking about individual differences in an objective manner. Understand how individuals’ different ways of approaching a problem can improve team performance.

Understanding the Jung Typology Reflects back what you say about yourself in a systematic way. Profiles what you prefer to do, not what you can do. Letters represent ends of one scale, your actual score is somewhere along the scale.

Jung Type Indicators 1st Letter Energizing: Orientation of your energy either: Extroversion: towards the outside world, people activities and things Introversion: toward the world inside you, emotions and impressions.

Jung Type Indicators 2nd Letter Attending: what a person pays attention to, either: Sensing: noticing what is actual, taking in information through the five senses, focus on specifics first. INtuition: noticing what might be, take in information through a 6th sense, focus on the overall pattern first.

Jung Type Indicators 3rd Letter Deciding: how a person makes decisions, either Thinking: preference for structuring information to decide in a logical objective way Feeling: preference for structuring information to decide in a personal, values oriented way.

Jung Type Indicators 4th Letter Living: orientation to the outside world, how you deal with life: either Judging: preferring a planned organized life Perceiving: preferring a spontaneous, flexible life

Creating Teams Homogeneous Groups Heterogeneous Groups Start fast. Reach agreement easily. People feel comfortable. Generate fewer creative solutions. Tend to have collective blind spots. Heterogeneous Groups Start Slow. Have more conflict and have difficulty. reaching agreement People feel less comfortable. Generate more creative solutions. Catch errors and over sights.