1. Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)

2. Goals for this workshop:
History of MBTI
Review your MBTI Results
Complete “My Best Fit Worksheet”
verify your true type
Review personality type handouts
provide career options chosen by your type

3. Understanding MBTI…. You can and should have a career you love
The secret to loving your work….
do what you naturally enjoy most

4. Understanding MBTI….
To find out what work you would love, you need to know yourself
One way of know yourself is through personality assessments
MBTI
Personality Dimensions

5. History of MBTI… one of the most widely used self-report inventories
based upon Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung’s ( ) notion of psychological types
He believed that differences between people are not random, instead they form patterns – types
The MBTI was first developed by Isabel Briggs Myers and her mother, Katherine Cook Briggs in 1943

6. Why do we use it?
Knowing your preferences could enable you to find satisfaction in your career and better understand other people

7. Psychological Type…
Is NOT about skills, intelligence, abilities, or expertise
Does NOT tell you what you should or can do…
….and what you shouldn't or can’t do
People are influenced by more than their ‘Type’
environment
culture
education and training
interests and motivations

8. Activity # 1

9. 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

10. Measures your preferences on four different scales
The MBTI
Measures your preferences on four different scales

11. Extraversion Introversion Sensing INtuition Thinking Feeling Judging
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

12. There is no right or wrong to MBTI results
Each preference and type identifies valuable
human behaviours

13. Verifying Your Results
Using the sheet My “Best Fit” Worksheet, fill in your preferences after we discuss each of the scales

14. 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

15. Where do you get your energy from?
Extrovert / Introvert
Where do you get your energy from?

16. Extrovert / Introvert
Direct energy mostly to the people and things in the “outside world”
Work out ideas by talking them through
Direct energy mostly to the ideas in their minds
Work out ideas by reflecting on them

17. Extrovert / Introvert
Find that they are easily distracted by what is going on around them
May like to be involved in many activities
Find that they can concentrate for long periods of time
May like to focus on one activity in depth and dislike interruptions

18. Extrovert / Introvert When at work… When at work… At parties…
prefer lots of people contact
out-of-office activities
variety in their tasks
At parties…
Tend to stay late
increasing amounts of energy
When at work…
prefer working alone
one-to-one people contact
continuity and concentration
At parties…
tend to leave early
decreased energy

19. Extrovert / Introvert Learn best through doing or discussing
Have broad interests
Readily take initiative in work and relationships
Learn best by reflection, mental ‘practice’
Focus in depth on their interests
Take initiative when the situation or issue is very important to them

20. Extrovert / Introvert
Are ENERGIZED by lots of action, people and things
Acts first, thinks later
Lots of action, people and things DRAINS their energy
Thinks first, acts later

21. Which one would you say you prefer?
E or I?
Write it on your sheet

22. How do you prefer to take in information?
Sensing / INtuition
How do you prefer to take in information?

23. Sensing / INtuition
Activity #2
(picture)

24. Sensing / INtuition Are often seen as.. Are often seen as… realistic
Practical
good at grasping facts and details
Are often seen as…
imaginative
Insightful
good at grasping the big picture

25. Sensing / INtuition Focus more on the present
Often patient and careful with precise work and routine, want to master a skill
Focus more on the future
Often patient in projects with many intangibles and possibilities, enjoy new ways of doing things

26. Sensing / INtuition Factual and concrete
Observe and remember specifics
Trust experience
Imaginative and verbally creative
Remember specifics when they relate to a pattern
Trust inspiration

27. Which one would you say you prefer?
S or N?
Write it on your sheet

28. How do you prefer to make decisions?
Thinking / Feeling
How do you prefer to make decisions?

29. Thinking / Feeling
Prefer to understand experience through logical thinking
Analytical
Prefer to understand experience in the context of human relationships
Empathetic

30. Thinking / Feeling Use cause-and-effect reasoning
Solve problems with logic
Reasonable
Guided by personal values
Assess impacts of decisions on people
Compassionate

31. Thinking / Feeling Seek… Seek… objective truth harmony fairness
regardless of effects
may be seen as firm
Seek…
harmony
cooperation
sometimes ignoring the consequences
may be seen as warm and understanding

32. Thinking / Feeling Can be “tough-minded”
Fair – want everyone treated equally
Decides with the head
May appear “tenderhearted”
Fair – wants everyone treated as an individual
Decides with the heart

33. Which one would you say you prefer?
T or F?
Write it on your sheet

34. How do you prefer to live everyday life?
Judging / Perceiving
How do you prefer to live everyday life?

35. Judging / Perceiving
Value spontaneity and the challenge of dealing with the unexpected
Don’t want to rush closure
Value order, structure, predictability
Like the completion of a task (check it off the list)

36. Judging / Perceiving Finish tasks… Finish tasks…
well before a deadline
check it off the list
Finish tasks…
at the deadline
have a last-minute rush of adrenaline to complete the task

37. Judging / Perceiving Organize their lives Flexible Systematic Casual
Methodical
Make short and long-term plans
Flexible
Casual
Open-ended
Adapt, change course easily

38. Judging / Perceiving Like things loose and open to change
Feel energized by last-minute pressures
Likes to have things decided
Try to avoid last minute stresses

39. Which one would you say you prefer?
J or P?
Write it on your sheet

40. MBTI Card Game Clear off a space in front of you
Keep the worksheet out
You will fill in each space in the “card game” line

41. TypeFocus
You will now receive your results from the TypeFocus assessment that you took during your intake session
Write the four letters on your sheet
Are they different?

42. 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

43. 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

44. Thinking / Feeling
Activity #3
(Who stays, Who goes?)

45. Judging / Perceiving
Activity #4
(Plan a Trip)

46. PREFERENCES AND CAREERS
EXTRAVERTS
Are attracted to careers…
where action and interaction are important
business
sales / marketing
personal services
food services
public relations
government
INTROVERTS
Are attracted to career…
where ideas are important
college teaching
science research
library work
computers
mechanical work
electronics
engineering

47. Are attracted to careers… INTUITIVE Are attracted to careers…
SENSING
Are attracted to careers…
where production, management of a business or service is important
Construction
office details and accounting
patient care
police and military
similar hands-on activities to solve immediate problems
INTUITIVE
Are attracted to careers…
where communication or theory are important
Counselling
Journalism
Teaching
writing and art
Religion
Science
Research
law
long-range planning in business or policy development

48. THINKING Attracted to careers… FEELING Attracted to careers…
skilled trades and crafts
science and technology
computers
production
management
law
police
criminal justice work
FEELING
Attracted to careers…
teaching
health care
clerical and office work
personal and human services
communication
entertainment
counselling
ministry

49. Attracted to work settings… PERCEIVING Attracted to work settings…
JUDGING
Attracted to work settings…
where plans, system, order, and deadlines are important
tasks where they can assume responsibility
PERCEIVING
Attracted to work settings…
where change, flexibility and innovation are important
tasks where they can work independently

50. MBTI and Careers Supplemental information provided…
About your preference type
Possible career occupations
Highlight occupations to research

51. Questions?
Comments?
Concerns?
Thank you!