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When you understand yourself better, your working and personal relationships improve and your productivity increases as you are able to identify interpersonal communication preferences of your clients, colleagues, bosses and people around you. The Myers Briggs(R) model of personality focuses on how you prefer to behave - not how you actually behave. This is comparable to handedness, where you sometimes use your preferred hand (eg: when using a pen to write) and sometimes use your non-preferred hand (eg: the hand you use to change gear whilst driving a car is determined by the design of the car, not your preferences). Determining your natural personality style is frequently complicated by your learned behaviours, the influence of cultural values, gender, family or an expected demand of a situation that can cause you to behave in ways that are different from your preferences. Understanding your preferences and the 'stretch' between preference and actual behaviour can be useful in many ways. The Myers Briggs® model of personality is based on 4 preferences.
2. How do you prefer to process information? Sensing (S) - Intuition (N): This describes how you prefer to take in information - focused on what is real and actual or on patterns and meanings in data.
1. Where, primarily, do you direct your energy? Extraversion (E) - Introversion (I): This describes how you prefer to focus your attention and get your energy - from the outer world of people and activity or your inner world of ideas and experiences. 3. How do you prefer to make decisions?
4. How do you prefer to organise your life? Judging (J) - Perceiving (P): This describes how you prefer to deal with the outer world - in a planned orderly way, or in a flexible spontaneous way.
Working out your own preference The combinations of these preferences result in 16 distinct personality types. The letters that represent your preferences are combined to produce your Myers Briggs Type Indicator(R) (MBTI(R)), such as ENTJ, INFP, etc. All types are normal and valued in the society; there is no more or less desirable personality type. Everyone's personality reflects all aspects of the Myers Briggs(R) model. You use Extroversion as well as Introversion, Sensing as well as Intuition, Thinking as well as Feeling, and Judgement as well as Perception at some time or other. Regardless of situations, it is natural that you gravitate towards your innate preferences. One indicator of your true preference may be the level of stress or enjoyment in a situation. When your preferences coincide with the demands of the situation, you may find it quite enjoyable. For example, an extrovert may find it frustrating or stressful if required to work in an introvert style, but enjoyable or energising if required to work in an extrovert style, and vice versa for an introvert.
Applications of MBTI(R) Because the MBTI(R) is based on a comprehensive and coherent theory of personality, applications can be found in almost any human field of endeavour. Thousands of research papers, thesis and articles as well as more than a hundred general books and training materials are available on MBTI(R). MBTI(R) theory has been successfully applied in areas including leadership, change management, team building, planning, marketing & sales, writing, counselling, coaching, relationship building, personal development, career planning, communications, teaching/learning styles and methods, spirituality, etc
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