Know Your Type! - 21 Benefits of The MBTI assessment

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator instrument is a psychological instrument which provides information about personality or psychological types. People are asked to respond to questions about their preferences in various situations, and the result is an indicated "type" of personality. Knowing one's type gives insight into one's motives, behaviors and interactions with others. Note that The MBTI is not an assessment of mental health, intelligence, or unhealthy personality types or patterns. The MBTI instrument is intended for self-discovery — what is right with you.  The MBTI instrument contains four separate indices. Each index reflects one of four basic preferences affect not only what people attend to in any given situation, but also how they draw conclusions about what they perceive. ·         Extraverted (E) vs. Introverted (I), ·         Sensing (S) vs. Intuition (N) ·         Thinking (T) vs. Feeling (F) ·         Judging (J) vs. Perceiving (P) All possible permutations of preferences in the 4 dichotomies above yield 16 different combinations, or personality types, representing which of the two poles in each of the four dichotomies dominates in a person, thus defining 16 different personality types. Each personality type can be assigned a 4 letter acronym of corresponding combination of preferences: The 16 personality types ESTJ ISTJ ENTJ INTJ ESTP ISTP ENTP INTP ESFJ ISFJ ENFJ INFJ ESFP ISFP ENFP INFP If you haven’t used Myers Briggs or you don’t feel you’ve fully realized the benefits from using the tool, here are 21 reasons why you might want to look again. Learning and understanding how each other tick can help to: Avoid and resolve conflicts Play to an individual’s strengths Identify gaps in the team Discover how your team style works best with customers Enable self-understanding and so reduce stress Help you learn to relax Aid career development Assist communication strategies Provide managers with the understanding to give effective feedback Inform personal development plan Work together more effectively Relate to each other with greater understanding Encourage true psychological diversity Support people through life transitions Inform your  own and others decision making Develop thinking skills Develop emotional intelligence Identify and develop strengths and weaknesses Develop leaders,  managers, teams and HR expertise Encourage team members to understand and appreciate different strengths To take the online assessment Click Here Article courtesy of : http://www.capt.org/mbti-assessment and Christina Lattimer - http://www.trainingzone.co.uk