Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

(MBTI)
 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
 Understanding MBTI….

• You can and should have a career you love

• The secret to loving your work….

• do what you naturally enjoy most

 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
 History of MBTI…
 one of the most widely used self-report inventories

 based upon Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung’s (1875-1961) 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
 Why do we use it?
- Knowing your preferences could enable you to find
satisfaction in your career and better understand
other people
 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
Activity # 1
 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
 The MBTI

Measures your preferences on four different scales

 How do you prefer to
Extraversion direct and get energy?
Introversion

Sensing How do you prefer to take INtuition

in information?

How do you prefer to

Thinking make decisions?
Feeling

Judging How do you prefer to live Perceiving

your life everyday?
There is no right or wrong to MBTI results

Each preference and type identifies valuable

human behaviours
 Verifying Your Results

Using the sheet My “Best Fit” Worksheet, fill in your

preferences after we discuss each of the scales
 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
Extrovert / Introvert

Where do you get your energy from?

 Extrovert / Introvert
 Direct energy mostly to  Direct energy mostly to
the people and things in the ideas in their minds
the “outside world”

 Work out ideas by  Work out ideas by

talking them through reflecting on them
 Extrovert / Introvert
 Find that they are easily  Find that they can
distracted by what is concentrate for long
going on around them periods of time

 May like to be involved  May like to focus on

in many activities one activity in depth
and dislike interruptions
 Extrovert / Introvert
 When at work…  When at work…
• prefer lots of people • prefer working alone
contact • one-to-one people
• out-of-office activities contact
• variety in their tasks • continuity and
concentration

 At parties…  At parties…
• Tend to stay late • tend to leave early
• increasing amounts of • decreased energy
energy
 Extrovert / Introvert

 Learn best through  Learn best by reflection,

doing or discussing mental ‘practice’

 Focus in depth on their

 Have broad interests
interests

 Readily take initiative in  Take initiative when the

work and relationships situation or issue is very
important to them
 Extrovert / Introvert
 Are ENERGIZED by  Lots of action, people
lots of action, people and things DRAINS
and things their energy

 Acts first, thinks later  Thinks first, acts later

 Which one would you say you prefer?

E or I?

Write it on your sheet

 Sensing / INtuition

How do you prefer to take in information?

Sensing / INtuition

Activity #2
(picture)
 Sensing / INtuition
 Are often seen as..  Are often seen as…
• realistic • imaginative
• Practical • Insightful
• good at grasping • good at grasping the
facts and details big picture
 Sensing / INtuition
 Focus more on the  Focus more on the
present future

 Often patient and  Often patient in projects

careful with precise with many intangibles
work and routine, want and possibilities, enjoy
to master a skill new ways of doing
things
 Sensing / INtuition

 Factual and concrete  Imaginative and

verbally creative
 Observe and remember
specifics  Remember specifics
when they relate to a
 Trust experience pattern
 Trust inspiration
Which one would you say you prefer?

S or N?

Write it on your sheet

 Thinking / Feeling
How do you prefer to make
decisions?
 Thinking / Feeling
 Prefer to understand  Prefer to understand
experience through experience in the
logical thinking context of human
relationships

 Analytical  Empathetic
 Thinking / Feeling
 Use cause-and-effect  Guided by personal
reasoning values

 Solve problems with  Assess impacts of

logic decisions on people

 Compassionate
 Reasonable
 Thinking / Feeling
 Seek…  Seek…
• objective truth • harmony
• fairness • cooperation
• regardless of effects • sometimes ignoring
• may be seen as firm the consequences
• may be seen as
warm and
understanding
 Thinking / Feeling
 Can be “tough-minded”  May appear
“tenderhearted”
 Fair – want everyone
treated equally  Fair – wants everyone
treated as an individual
 Decides with the head
 Decides with the heart
 Which one would you say you prefer?

T or F?

Write it on your sheet

Judging / Perceiving

How do you prefer to live everyday life?

 Judging / Perceiving

 Value order, structure,  Value spontaneity and

predictability the challenge of
dealing with the
unexpected

 Like the completion of

a task (check it off the
 Don’t want to rush
list) closure
 Judging / Perceiving

 Finish tasks…  Finish tasks…

• well before a • at the deadline
deadline • have a last-minute
• check it off the list rush of adrenaline to
complete the task
 Judging / Perceiving
 Organize their lives  Flexible

 Systematic  Casual

 Methodical  Open-ended

 Adapt, change course

 Make short and long- easily
term plans
 Judging / Perceiving
 Likes to have things  Like things loose and
decided open to change

 Try to avoid last minute  Feel energized by last-

stresses minute pressures
 Which one would you say you prefer?

J or P?

Write it on your sheet

 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

 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?
 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
 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
Thinking / Feeling

Activity #3

(Who stays, Who goes?)

Judging / Perceiving

Activity #4

(Plan a Trip)
 PREFERENCES AND CAREERS
EXTRAVERTS INTROVERTS

Are attracted to careers… Are attracted to career…

• where action and • where ideas are
interaction are important important
• college teaching
• business
• science research
• sales / marketing
• library work
• personal services
• computers
• food services • mechanical work
• public relations • electronics

• government • engineering
SENSING INTUITIVE

Are attracted to careers… Are attracted to careers…

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

Attracted to careers… Attracted to careers…

• skilled trades and crafts • teaching
• science and technology • health care
• computers • clerical and office work
• production • personal and human
• management services
• law • communication
• police • entertainment
• criminal justice work • counselling
• ministry
JUDGING PERCEIVING

Attracted to work settings… Attracted to work

• where plans, system, settings…
order, and deadlines are • where change,
important flexibility and
• tasks where they can innovation are
assume responsibility important
• tasks where they can
work independently
 MBTI and Careers

Supplemental information provided…

• About your preference type
• Possible career occupations

Highlight occupations to research

Questions?
Comments?
Concerns?

Thank you!