Myers Bregs Indicator

Introduction

The MBTI is a psychometric tool that is used globally as a way of understanding our own personality traits. As we learn more about ourselves we also begin to understand how we can better relate to our friends, colleagues, family and loved ones. Putting the right person, with the right skills, in the right place, at the right time is one of the current trends in human performance technology and human resources. One of the ways to determine this is by using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), based on Carl Jung’s research was developed in the 1960s by Katherine Briggs and her daughter Isabel Briggs Myers.

What is MBTI?

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a tool to study personality types based on C.G.Jung's theory of Psychological Types. Its purpose is to make this comprehensive theory of personality practical and useful in people's lives. The MBTI is an extremely reliable personality questionnaire. The MBTI enables us to use a non-judgmental language to talk about some serious issues, both within an organization and in counseling and helping people. People who complete the MBTI are given a four letter code (e.g. ISTJ; ENFP etc.) as their results which, when verified, indicates their personality preferences as one of 16 Types. The different type preferences lead to different ways of living and working, taking in information and making decisions. They describe different, effective approaches to working and learning styles and methods, managing, leading, coaching and teaching as well as general communication, teamwork, relationships, counseling etc.

What are the MBTI type preferences?

The middle two letters of the Personality Type Code refer to what Isabel Myers and Psychologist Carl Jung called the "mental functions" (Sensing, Intuition, Thinking, and Feeling). Although the four letter type code only shows

two of these functions, everyone has and uses all four of them. Examples. Those who prefer...