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• Differentiate between different personality types.
G OA L S F O R T O D AY
• Interpret your own personality type.
• Strategize how to leverage your personality preferences in leadership roles.
OVERVIEW• Approaching MBTI Positively• Background on Carl Jung and the MBTI• Attitudes
–E/I: Questioning the other type• Functions
–S/N: Looking at a picture–T/F: Presents!
• Lifestyle–J/P: Work & Play
• Conclusion: Implementing Personality Types
VIDEO
What is positive psychology?
WHAT ARE SOME OF THE TENANTS OF POSIT IVE PSYCHOLOGY?Brainstorm:
How does learning more about our personalities and the personalities of our peers make achieving the tenants of positive psychology more likely?
• Positive Emotion
• Engagement
• Relationships
• Meaning
• Accomplishments
• Flow
• Mindfulness
• Learned Optimism
BACKGROUND ON MBTI
• Test developed by mother-
daughter team, Isabel Briggs
Myers and Katharine Cook Briggs
• First published in 1962
• An application of the Freudian
psychologist Carl Jung’s ideas
• Is a heuristic designed to indicate
preferences
Energy is focused outward
Interest in people and events
Awareness of surroundings
Speak out often and easily
Skilled in connection and large group settings
Energy is focused inward
Interest in thoughts, ideas, and reflection
Awareness of self
May prefer to listen
Thrive in solitary or small-group work
ACTIVITY• At your tables, please brainstorm some answers to the following questions:
–What are some common stereotypes or misconceptions about both extroverts and introverts?
–What leadership duties, roles, or activities would extroverts thrive in? What about introverts?
–What is one question you would ask someone of the opposite preference to get a better understanding of how they experience introversion/extroversion?
ACTIVITY• We are going
to show you a picture for ten seconds.
• After you see it, use the next two minutes to describe as much as possible about it.
Focus on the big picture
Interest in the intangible or abstract
Ability to begin processes from any point
Speak in general or metaphoric language
Thrive in imaginative or creative processes
Focus on what’s next
Use senses to collect information
Ability to collect facts and details
Speak in literal terms
Prefer concrete, tangible processes
ACTIVITY• Please split into two groups based on your T/F
preference.– T’s move to the left of the room. F’s to the right.
– In your groups work through the following scenario.• You have all been preparing to present the results of a
research team study at an all expenses paid conference held in the Caribbean. With just three weeks to go, the finance director tells you that the budget has had to be cut and there is only enough money for three of your team to go. Your job is to decide who in your actual group goes and describe (on the flipchart sheet) the process you used to make the decision.
Decisions based on impersonal, objective logic
Gather facts or principles
Focus on the task at hand, not necessarily relationships
Decisions based on empathy or sympathy
Person- or value-centered
Harmony preservers
Focus on relationships and helping everyone feel good about a decision
ACTIVITY• There are two pieces of paper with opposing
statements on the opposite sides of the room.
• The first statement reads, “I have to get my work done before I can play.”
• The second statement reads, “I can play anytime.”
• Line up across the room according to how much you agree with either statement.
• For example, if you strongly agree with the first you would be right next to it.
Love order and plans
See the world in terms of decisions to be made
Are more comfortable with tangible deadlines
Thrive at planning ahead
Love possibility and to explore
Respond resourcefully to challenges
Prefer flexibility or even ambiguity
Rarely feel rushed
Comfortable with finishing tasks as they need to be completed
• What are my strengths as a leader?
MOVING FORWARD
• For what activities should I partner with someone else, and if I should, with whom should I partner:
Public Speaking Solving a Crisis
Assessing a Program Delegating Tasks
In our last few minutes together, spend some time thinking about the following questions.