MBTI Awareness Workshop

iACT is pleased to announce a 1 day Awareness Workshop on the Myers Briggs Type Indicator.

What shall be covered in the program?

1. Conceptual understanding of the instrument
2. Ability to give the instrument and know your MBTI type
3. Understand the power of the MBTI

Who should attend the workshop?

1. Teachers and personnel involved in academia
2. Career Counselors
3. HR Professionals
4. Managers and Top Management for leadership and coaching
5. Teams interested in working more efficiently

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) assessment is a psychometric questionnaire designed to measure psychological preferences in how people perceive the world and make decisions. These preferences were extrapolated from the theories originated by Carl Gustav Jung, in 1921. The original developers of the personality inventory were Katharine Cook Briggs and her daughter, Isabel Briggs Myers.

The MBTI instrument is called "the best-known and most trusted personality assessment tool available today" by its publisher, CPP. CPP further calls the MBTI tool “the world’s most widely used personality assessment”‚ with as many as two million assessments administered annually.

The indicator is frequently used in the areas of Pedagogy, Career counseling, Team building, Group dynamics, Professional development, Marketing, Leadership training, Executive coaching, Life coaching, Personal development.

Type :
The Myers-Briggs typology model regards personality type as similar to left or right handedness: individuals are either born with, or develop, certain preferred ways of thinking and acting. The MBTI sorts some of these psychological differences into four opposite pairs, or dichotomies, with a resulting 16 possible psychological types.

Attitudes: Extraversion (E) / Introversion (I)
People who prefer extraversion draw energy from action: they tend to act, then reflect, then act further. If they are inactive, their motivation tends to decline. To rebuild their energy, extraverts need breaks from time spent in reflection. Conversely, those who prefer introversion expend energy through action: they prefer to reflect, then act, then reflect again. To rebuild their energy, introverts need quiet time alone, away from activity.

Functions: Sensing (S) / iNtuition (N)
Sensing and intuition are the information-gathering (perceiving) functions. Individuals who prefer sensing are more likely to trust information that is in the present, tangible and concrete: that is, information that can be understood by the five senses. On the other hand, those who prefer intuition tend to trust information that is more abstract or theoretical, that can be associated with other information.

Functions: Thinking (T) / Feeling (F)
Thinking and feeling are the decision-making (judging) functions. Those who prefer thinking tend to decide things from a more detached standpoint, measuring the decision by what seems reasonable, logical, causal, consistent and matching a given set of rules. Those who prefer feeling tend to come to decisions by associating or empathizing with the situation, looking at it 'from the inside' and weighing the situation to achieve, on balance, the greatest harmony, consensus and fit, considering the needs of the people involved.

Lifestyle: Judgment (J) / Perception (P)
Myers and Briggs added another dimension to Jung's typological model by identifying that people also have a preference for using either the judging function (thinking or feeling) or their perceiving function (sensing or intuition) when relating to the outside world (extraversion).

The following precepts are generally used in the ethical administration of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator:

1. Type not trait: The MBTI sorts for type; it does not indicate the strength of ability.
2. Own best judge: Individuals are considered the best judge of their own type
3. No right or wrong: No preference or total type is considered “better” or “worse” than another.
4. Importance of feedback: Individuals should always be given detailed feedback from a trained administrator.