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As an MBTI® trainer and consultant, I most often work with businesses and organizations to improve team and/or individual functioning through type. While type is capable of improving these environments drastically, it is not useful or even ethical to use…
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When it comes to MBTI® type, there is one area people ask about above all others, and that area is relationships. Type can play a huge role in relationships, from romance to family to friends to coworkers to casual acquaintances. It…
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When it comes to approaches to getting things done, there is probably no bigger cause of MBTI® related conflict than the Judging and Perceiving preferences. Judging types love to get things over and done with and checked off of their…
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If you are at all familiar with Myers-Briggs®, you are probably not surprised to hear that the clash of the Thinking and Feeling preferences have been known to lead to frustration and the occasional knock down drag out. With Thinking…
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After discussing how Extraversion and Introversion interact in conflict, you may be wondering what other conflicts are type related. Well, never fear! All of the preferences have conflict styles and typical causes, including Sensing and Intuition… Conflict Style Sensing Tends…
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Ah, conflict… It’s a word that brings joy to the hearts of those who enjoy a good debate and the urge to flee, or even dive under the bed, to those who crave harmony. Whichever camp you fall into, or…
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So, you’ve taken the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator®. Maybe you struggled through deciding which way to vote on some of the questions. Perhaps the answering of the questions went fine, but the interpretation or the type description brought you doubt. Either…
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From time to time (or maybe a little more often than that) a person will take the MBTI® and firmly claim to have multiple types and be able to equally use both preferences in a given group. In truth, if…
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I have a confession to make. After spending what felt like 100 years hiring people to work in retail and spending time helping college students revise resumes and learn to interview well, I have developed a pet peeve. Yep, that’s…
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A few months ago, we looked at typical characteristics of teachers, based on the two middle letters of type, function pairs. Function pairs provide a great deal of information about how type makes teachers tick, but they are certainly not…
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