1. Complete Thinking About Me Worksheet
Complete Thinking About Me Worksheet. Make sure that you have answered everything except reflection on career assessment.

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

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

4. 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

5. Areas for Improvement
Potential pitfalls
Suggestions for development

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

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

8. 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

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

10. 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”

11. Extravert - Introvert
How you get and use your energy

12. 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

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

14. 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

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

16. 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

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

18. 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