In organizations, the ability to influence others is critical to each member’s overall effectiveness. Naturally, an individual’s leadership plays a crucial role in the success or failure of an enterprise. Over the years to better understand me as a leader, I participating in the Harvard temperament and Meyer-Briggs personality tests. Of course, I know my type is an ENTJ, and I tend, to be frank, decisive and assume leadership roles. I look for organizational inefficiencies, and I develop and implement comprehensive systems to solve organizational problems. As a result, I enjoy long-term planning, goal setting and expanding my knowledge and teaching others. I relished uncovering new angles and versed in a variety of topics. However, my Achilles heel is my forceful in expressing my opinion and disregard for others thoughts (The Myers & Briggs Foundation - The 16 MBTI® Types, n.d.). By having this awareness, I can modify my approach and address each situation individually. In fact, I started …show more content…
While the factor affects our thoughts, power is not the only determinate and other considerations such a hierarchy, admirations, and listening skills garner the respect of others (Anderson, John, & Keltner, 2012). As opposed to people who do not display these characteristic, they have less influence, and others ignore their opinion and thoughts. Therefore, certain traits such as extraversion and assertiveness can be predictors of leadership (Anderson, John, Keltner, & Kring, 2001). As leaders, we must discover our deficiencies and determine if adaptations are necessary and do those changes align with our values. Finally, we argue that status is a function of both the individual's drive and ability to attain status in interpersonal settings and the congruence of the individual's personal characteristics with the characteristics valued by the
As I reviewed my MBTI results, most of my percentages have not drastically changed over time. This gives me continued confidence in the following MBTI results which indicate I am an ?ISTJ?: introvert (16%), sensing (9%), thinking (31%) and judging (53%) (Jung Typology Test, 1998-2017).
The Myers-Briggs type indicator is a test that is designed to look for a psychological preference on how are seen in the world and how they make a decision. In essence allows on to see what kind of leader they are. The MBTI was created by Katharine Briggs and Isabel Myers. The way the test works is are you have answered the questions you will receive a 4 letter personality type. This will then correspond with a full breakdown of your personality type. Providing a very useful information. I conducted a version of this test online, in which my results came up to be an INTP. INTP stands for Introverts, intuitive, thinking, and perceiving.
After studying my personality type and reading the book, Please Understand Me. I have learned that I am an Idealist, ENFJ to be exact. From the words in The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator ENFJ describes me as expressive, introspective, friendly, and scheduling. According to the book ENFJ’s are also called teachers. As soon as I read that I couldn’t think of a better title. My whole Life teaching others is what I have wanted to do. Once I furthered my reading I found that there are so many factors that I can identify with and a few things I have not yet began to look into. Whether it is about my hobbies or the simple likes and dislikes I have, this simple test has opened my eyes to things I wasn’t looking into during this time of my life. I have
Why do NFL teams conduct training camps annually? Fundamentally, they are testing each player’s level of knowledge of the team’s playbook. This assists the coaches in deciding who to keep or cut, but more importantly, it allows the executives to assess each athlete’s character. Likewise, the Myers-Briggs Test has everyone answer a myriad of questions to figure out their specific personality. I received the designation of introverted, sensing, feeling, and judging or “ISFJ.” Simply, I am someone who avoids receiving attention, builds deep, personal friendships, and judges people harshly for their mistakes. Additionally, this test was extremely informative because it helped me identify possible future jobs and explained how I can further excel within social relationships.
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) “is an introspective self-report questionnaire designed to indicate psychological preferences in how people perceive the world and make decisions” (13). It is one of several personality assessments that is popular among modern mental health experts throughout the world. Currently, it is estimated that the MBTI is “taken by more than two million people per year and is translated into 16 languages (10). “The purpose of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator personality inventory is to make the theory of psychological types described by C. G. Jung understandable and useful in people 's lives” (4).
Learning how to socialize in big groups and thinking before acting can take you further in life rather than the other way around.The purpose of the Myers-Briggs test is to indicate your personality type by using four scales. The four scales are 1. extroversion/introversion 2.sensate/intuitive, 3. thinking/feeling 4. judging/ perceiving. According to the test, I scored higher of extroversion like than introversion. I also I scored higher in thinking rather than feeling. In other words, using my head other than my heart. Being an extrovert comes with having high energy and the love of being around large crowds. Which I can say fits my personality perfectly. Also, I think about situations in the long run before automatically acting off my immediate
The world would be a lot better of a place if everyone got along and knew how to communicate effectively with one another. There are several different personalities at any given workplace. “According to typological theory, each of us is born with a predisposition for certain personality preferences” (Kroeger pg11 para4). The Myers-Briggs Personality assessment is the most effective way to determine one’s personality type. The test uses different markers to determine how one is stimulated and exerts energy, gather information, make decisions, and living structure. At the completion of the test one will get personality type that is comprised of four letters. The test was developed based off of Carl Jung and Isabel Briggs-Myers’ psychological research on personalities and later dissected into Otto Kroeger’s book, “Type Talk at Work.” This book gives one the tools to determine what one’s personality is and then goes into great detail about one’s strengths and weaknesses and how it applies to to real life situations. My personality description is ENFP; Extravert, iNtuitive, Feeling, and Perceiving. The following are details regarding and ENFP personality type examining a holistic view including personal and work place interactions. Everything is based on insights gained from real world experiences and interactions.
I took the actual Myers Briggs Paper two years ago, labeled as a ENFP. Over the course of time I haven't changed that much. I have became more extroverted than before. On the previous test, I barely made it over the scale to be extroverted. On this test, I scored 40% or higher extroverted. I actually think I am an ambivert. I have many key characteristics of both sides. I really don't think that this test asked as much in depth questions as needed to determine the factor. Also, I changed from Perceiving to more Judging. This change really isn't much because I only had 1% Judging meaning I use both sides quite often. Although I didn't believe the type to be true, when looking at the description of my type I knew that it
INFJs are altruistic, meaning that they are constantly trying to make the world a better place.
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a personality assessment that was originally developed by the mother-daughter duo, Katharine Cook Briggs and her daughter Isabel Briggs Myers. After meeting her daughter’s future husband for the first time, Clarence Myers, Katharine got inspired to start researching personality types after she noticed that although Clarence was a good match for her daughter, he seemed to have viewed the world differently compared to her and her family. Fast forward to today; through a series of events and breakthroughs in research, the MBTI is the most trusted personality assessment tool available. It is taken by millions of men, women, and even children around the world. It has many practical uses, for example, employers give this assessment to existing employees so that the employee is aware of their personality traits including strengths and weaknesses in hope of achieving maximum efficiency. It is also given to potential employees to see if they would be a good fit. What do U.S. Presidents: George Washington, Andrew Johnson, and Georges H. W. Bush all have in common? The answer to that is quite simple, they were all great leaders of course. But what is lesser known is that they all have the ISTJ personality type. Hence, this topic is of keen interest to me because I happen to be of the same type.
According to the Myers-Briggs Test, I am have a tendency for introverted behaviors, which can be described as reserved and solitary behavior. The first pair of psychological presences are introversion and extraversion in the Myers-Briggs test. The Introvert-Extravert scale determines a person’s source of energy. “Introverts find energy internally in ideas and thoughts”.
I completed the Myers-Briggs on-line self-assessment and based off my answers to the questions the assessment asked me, I was classified as an ESFJ – ESFJ stands for extraversion, sensing, feeling and judgment (HumanMetrics). ESFJ’s are known to be the caregivers out of the different combinations a person may receive, and tend to be very emotional and due to this, they do not wear their heart on their sleeves. Other important characteristics of an ESFJ are being able to delegate easily in a situation where a problem arises. Though an ESFJ may easily delegate, they may also struggle when they have to make a quick decision, which can cause great discomfort and conflict within themselves (Butt 2009). Being classified as an ESFJ has been very
These qualities were even more defined when I took the Myers-Briggs assessment. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a personality assessment that involves a series of questions to simple everyday situations, the responses then identify an individual’s natural way of doing things known as ‘Psychological Preferences’ (Aranda, R, & TiLton, S, 2013). My MBTI results came back from (Personality Pathways, 2017) as being an ISTJ, which stands for: introversion, sensing, thinking, and judging. I thought that this assessment was somewhat accurate to my personality and my way of thinking. According to the test, I have a strong-felt internal sense of duty and that fuels my motivation to complete tasks. I feel this is certainly true because I want
For decade’s individuals, companies, and organizations have spent an unprecedented amount of money on researching, molding, modeling and working to define what a leader is and what characteristics make successful leaders. Despite all the research, there is not a quick answer or even full agreement as to what makes an individual an effective leader. The definition of a leader is “someone who can influence others and who has managerial authority.” (Robbins, Decenzo, Coulter, 2015. P.370)
The Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) enables an individual to gain a deeper insight into their inherent personality traits. For some people, they have had prior knowledge or underlying assumptions about their personality, but this test provides clearer information about each of their identifiable traits. According to the MBTI in Human-metric personality test, my scores were 22% (E) extroverted thinking more than introverted, 9% (N) intuitive as oppose to sensing, 16% (T) thinking more than feeling, and 12% (J) judging as compared to perceiving. Thus, my personality type is ENFJ. The ENFJ personality group is described as a minority group that consists of natural-born leaders, and people filled with passion, and charisma for example, Barack Obama and Oprah Winfrey; they are notable members of this group, also known as the protagonists (16personalities, 2016). The protagonists apprehend pride in providing guidance for others to improve individually and to improve the community at large (16personalities, 2016). The protagonists find it naturally easy to communicate with others and excel at communicating with other people in person (16personalities, 2016).