The MBTI Feedback Process

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The MBTI Feedback Process
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The MBTI Process
The MBTI process can help you to

• Learn about your preferred ways of operating
• Understand the differences between yourself and
  others, and ways in which people can work
  together more effectively
• Look at personality using a positive framework

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The MBTI

• The MBTI typology system is based on part of the
  theory of Carl Jung, a Swiss Psychologist who
  studied under Sigmund Freud
• The theory was picked up by Isabel Myers and
  Catherine Briggs, who recognised that it could be
  used to help people in practical ways
• Over 50 years of research has gone into the
  development of the model and the questionnaire
• The questionnaire gives us an indication of our
  personality preferences and our psychological type

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Basic Assumptions

• The questionnaire assesses preferences that are
  believed to be innate
• Having a preference does not mean that you never
  use the opposite everybody uses them all at
  some time
• Preference does not imply ability only
  motivation, energy and style
• There are no better or worse types to be all
  types have their potential qualities and their
  potential pitfalls
• The MBTI questionnaire is an indicator, not a
  test you are the best judge of your own type

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Stages of Type Discovery

• Self assessed type identifying your preferences
  through discussion and exercises
• Reported type the outcome of the indicator
• Best fit type the type that you believe you are
• True type your actual type sometimes it can
  take a while to discover

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Illustrating Preference

• Fold your arms

Now fold them the other way
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What was that like?
Non-Preferred
Preferred
Easy Quick Didnt have to think Feels like
me Comfortable for a long time Natural
Awkward Slow Had to concentrate Feels slightly
alien Soon becomes uncomfortable With practice it
starts to feel better
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The Four Preference Pairs
or or or or
I N F P
E S T J
Where you prefer to focus most of your attention
get energy?
What kind of information you prefer to attend to
and trust?
What is important to you when coming to a
decision or evaluating?
How you prefer to deal with the world around you?
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Where Do You Prefer To Focus Most of Your
Attention Get Energy?
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Where Do You Prefer To Focus Most of Your
Attention Get Energy?
Introversion Focus attention inwards Energised by
thoughts and taking in experiences Think
through ideas before discussing the with
others Enjoy depth of experience and interests
Contained Content to spend a considerable amount
of time in own company Like to interact with
smaller groups
Extraversion Focus attention outwards Energised
by interacting with others and from taking
action Ideas develop by talking them out with
others Enjoy breadth of experience and interests
Expressive Dislike spending a lot of time in own
company Like to interact with large groups and
many people
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E I Exercise

• In mixed groups of E and I
• You each have 5 tokens
• You are to discuss your thoughts and opinions
  about extraversion introversion
• Each time you contribute to the discussion, you
  must put in one token
• If you have no tokens, you cannot contribute to
  the discussion

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What Kind of Information Do You Prefer to Attend
To Trust?
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Exercise

• You are sending a postcard to an old friend
• Tell them about where you live

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What Kind of Information Do You Prefer to Attend
To Trust?

• iNtuition
• Enjoy theories and abstract concepts
• Future oriented
• Trust inspiration and hunches
• Enjoy possibilities the unknown
• Need to see the big picture or vision
• Will remember details if they relate to a pattern

• Sensing
• Realistic practical
• Present oriented
• Trust experience the past
• Enjoy traditions
• Need detail to trust information
• Observant

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What Is Important To You In Coming To A Decision
Or Evaluating Something?
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What Is Important To You In Coming To A Decision
Or Evaluating Something?

• Feeling
• Use personal conviction involvement
• Process people focused
• See fairness as unique treatment
• See positives give praise
• Seek harmony and consensus
• Have values

• Thinking
• Use logic and objective detachment
• Outcome task focused
• See fairness as equality consistency
• See flaws and give constructive criticism
• Seek the truth require proof
• Have principles

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T-F Exercise

• Split into T and F groups
• What do you like to be appreciated or recognised
  for?
• How do you like to be recognised or appreciated?
• How do you feel if you are not appreciated or
  recognised in this way?

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How You Prefer To Deal With The World Around You?
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How You Prefer To Deal With The World Around You?
Perceiving Tend to want to experience life as it
comes Prefer to leave options open Feel
constrained by plans and structure Can be seen as
casual and open ended Energised by last minute
rushes Tend to seen things as open
ended Spontaneous
Judging Tend to try and organise and structure
the outer world Are energised by getting
closure Like to be organised, planned and
structured Can be seen as decisive and seeking
resolution Stressed by last minute rushes Tend to
compartmentalise and order things Methodical
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Reasons why the MBTI reported type may not fit
for you?

• Think about
• Pressure from your work to do things that do not
  match your preferences
• Pressure from an organisation to behave in
  certain ways
• Pressure from society
• Pressure you felt as you grew up

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