Types and Teams: Understanding and Using the Humanmetrics Jung Typology Test

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Types and Teams Understanding and Using the
Humanmetrics-Jung Typology Test

• BUS 302 The Gateway Experience

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Uses of the Typology Test

• Better understand your own and others behavior
  in teams.
• Develop a language for talking about individual
  differences in an objective manner.
• Understand how individuals different ways of
  approaching a problem can improve team
  performance.

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Understanding the Test

• Reflects back what you say about yourself in a
  systematic way.
• Profiles what you prefer to do, not what you can
  do.
• Letters represent ends of one scale, your actual
  score is somewhere along the scale.

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Type Indicators

• 1st Letter
• Energizing Orientation of your energy either
• Extroversion towards the outside world, people
  activities and things
• Introversion toward the world inside you,
  emotions and impressions.

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Type Indicators

• 2nd Letter
• Attending what a person pays attention to,
  either
• Sensing noticing what is actual, taking in
  information through the five senses, focus on
  specifics first.
• INtuition noticing what might be, take in
  information through a 6th sense, focus on the
  overall pattern first.

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Type Indicators

• 3rd Letter
• Deciding how a person makes decisions, either
• Thinking preference for structuring information
  to decide in a logical objective way
• Feeling preference for structuring information
  to decide in a personal, values oriented way.

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Type Indicators

• 4th Letter
• Living orientation to the outside world, how you
  deal with life either
• Judging preferring a planned organized life
• Perceiving preferring a spontaneous, flexible
  life

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Creating Teams Using the Indicators

• Homogeneous Groups
• Start fast.
• Reach agreement easily.
• People feel comfortable.
• Generate fewer creative solutions.
• Tend to have collective blind spots.

• Heterogeneous Groups
• Start Slow.
• Have more conflict and have difficulty. reaching
  agreement
• People feel less comfortable.
• Generate more creative solutions.
• Catch errors and over sights.