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Top The Myers Briggs Personality Type Indicator - how it can make a difference Relationships Career Choice & The Workplace Managers Helping Professionals Are you unsure about how to deal with something that's bothering you?Is it personal, to do with your relationship, a turning point in your life or career, or a workplace problem? Sometimes the answer lies in looking to see if our personality, or someone else's personality, is part of the problem. Personality is 'hard-wired' ... and yet capable of being sculpted Our brains are ‘hard-wired’ from birth to operate in a particular way. After observing thousands of people, Carl Jung, one of the earliest psychotherapists, realised that people innately use their minds in certain ways that can be grouped together into clearly defined patterns. Isobel Myers and Katharine Briggs added to his work by devising a questionnaire, the Myers Briggs Personality Type Indicator (MBTI for short), for determining the 16 different core personality patterns or types that they identified. Our personality determines how we prefer to deal with the world and has a profound influence on how we respond to everything that happens to us in life. Talking about a personality type doesn’t mean that people are completely defined by their type, or that all people with the same personality type are the same. We are each a unique combination of personality and life experience, and underpinning each unique package is one of the 16 patterns identified by Myers and Briggs. How our personality type can affect our lives ... Our personality type influences just about everything we do and how we prefer to do it. This becomes evident in our interpersonal styles, our choice of partners, our career preferences, our conflict styles, learning styles, how we work, how we play, how we parent ... in fact it is core to every aspect of our lives. Click here to learn more about the introductory workshop for individuals and couples You're a manager or a professional? Then click here to go straight to the introductory workshop for managers and professionals. In relationships Imagine an introverted, deep-thinking, highly organised person in a relationship with a party-loving, spontaneous extravert. Maybe that's your relationship? We know opposites are often attracted to one another, but some of the things we are attracted to can become a source of great irritation when that honeymoon feeling wears off. If the partners really want to stay together happily, then they are going to have to find a way to value and work with each other's different personalities. Relationship coaching can help a good relationship become even better by showing you how to complement one another through your differences. Click here to learn more about the introductory workshop for individuals and couples As parents As a rather introverted person who just wanted a quiet life, I found it very difficult to understand my extraverted son's need to be in the middle of whatever what was happening. I wish I knew then what I know now. He was just being a true extravert. I also didn't realise that it is necessary for introverts to have enough time alone, and always felt guilty if I wanted to shut my partner or children out for a while. If only I'd known that I actually needed that time out to be a better parent. Parents who are very extraverted may think that there is something wrong with their introverted child who needs few friends. Some insights from a Myers Briggs workshop can deepen your relationship with your child as you become increasingly more attuned to your child's personality needs. Click here to learn more about the introductory workshop for individuals and couples Or maybe you were the cuckoo in your family nest ... Like my 22 year old client who had been taking anti-depressants for years with no benefit. We quickly discovered that she was an extraverted, spontaneous, people-oriented free spirit, whereas most of her family members were introverted, planful, organised, task-focused people who kept trying to keep her on a short leash and make her more like them. Once she understood this she no longer felt depressed because she came to value herself just as she is without feeling that there was something wrong with her. And she could resist the pressure to be something that was foreign to her. Click here to learn more about the introductory workshop for individuals and couples Back to the top In career choice and the workplace Sometimes we find ourselves in a job that is at odds with what we innately prefer to do, or we have to work with someone who doesn't see the world the same way we do. Just imagine someone who is extremely sociable, creative, and a great motivator trying to do the job of an accountant for a superannuation fund. Or how a planful, structured manager views an employee who always only just manages to meet the deadline. The accountant may have been persuaded to follow in dad's footsteps, but might be better for him to find a different job that gives him outlets for his sociableness and creativity, or at least try to accommodate his natural preferences within his job or his organisation. The organised manager can learn how to manage his subordinate so that he moves towards completion in a more timely way. Click here to learn more about the introductory workshop for individuals and couples Using the Myers Briggs Personality Type Indicator and my coaching skills to help you, you will: » achieve clarity and direction in your life » gain insight into your strengths, blind spots and potential so you can be the person you know you are » improve your communication, conflict management and emotional regulation skills » understand your personality type and what this means for your relationships » enhance all your relationships, and especially with your partner or children » find the kind of work that reflects who you really are so that your career makes work seem like fun Back to the top Managers, why not use the MBTI to improve staff productivity, satisfaction and effectiveness One common source of conflict in the workplace is that people have different ways of working and different ideas about how a job should be done. People may share common goals, but only trust their own ways of achieving them. This is often due to personality differences. Understanding different personality types enhances insight into ourselves and encourages co-operation with others. This makes the MBTI an extremely useful tool in the work place. It can be used for development in many areas, eg: » Communication skills » Individual staff development » Conflict management » Management development » Problem solving skills » Team development » Customer service skills The MBTI is one of the most widely used, reliable and respected personality appraisal tools in the world. It is easy to understand and put to practical use in helping people get the best from themselves and others. It has been in use for more than 50 years and an average of two million people in the US alone use it each year. It has been translated into more than 30 languages. Many other personality tools used in the workplace have been derived from this theory and questionnaire. Use the MBTI to understand your leadership and management style so that you will consciously manage from your strengths, enhance your decision-making, people management and coaching skills and become a more effective and respected manager. Click here to go to the introductory workshop for managers and professionals. Back to the top
For Coaches and other Helping Professionals
– Attend a workshop for helping professionals and learn how you can use
the insight that comes with the Myers Briggs Personality Type Indicator
to enhance your relationship and outcomes with your clients. It
will help you to enhance understanding of your clients and your own
reaction to some clients; to enhance rapport and communication; and to
have another useful framework within which to work. |
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