MBTI - 4 Temperaments: Guardians (SJ) Rationals (NT) Idealists (NF) Artisans (SP)
MBTI - 4 Temperaments: Guardians (SJ) Rationals (NT) Idealists (NF) Artisans (SP)
MBTI - 4 Temperaments: Guardians (SJ) Rationals (NT) Idealists (NF) Artisans (SP)
Are you one of those organized workers who always gets your
projects in before they're due?
Or do you put off getting the job done until the very last possible
moment?
Is your boss someone who readily lets you know how you're
doing? Or do they always leave you unsure of precisely where you
stand?
Do you find that a few people on your staff are incredibly creative
but can never seem to get to a meeting on time?
Do others require a specific agenda at the meeting in order to
focus on the job at hand?
Recognize your own type and those of your coworkers using
Myers Briggs Type Indicators
Myers Briggs Dimensions of Temperament
Your preferences in action
Extraversion / Introversion
– Where do you get your energy - what “charges your batteries” -
group think vs.. introspection, perhaps.
Sensing / Intuition
– How do you gather information. Present / future, practical /
imaginative, details / patterns, sequential / random
Thinking / Feeling
– How do you make decisions ?
– Thinking/feeling, laws/circumstances, justice/mercy
Judgment / Perception
– How do you organize your environment
– Planned / open ended, control / adapt, resolved / pending
Guardians (sj)
Administrators
– Inspector (iStJ)
– Supervisor (eStJ)
Conservators
– Protector (iSfJ)
– Provider (eSfJ)
Guardians (sj)
CONCRETE communication
COOPERATIVE in achieving
goals
Skilled in logistics
40% - 45% of the population
Security seeking
Enculturating as parents,
helpmates as spouses,
conformity oriented as
children
Guardians (sj)
Being CONCRETE in communicating & COOPERATIVE in achieving
goals, can become highly skilled in LOGISTICS.
Thus their best skills are supervising & inspecting (SJT
administering), or supplying and protecting (SJF conserving).
They are proud of themselves to the extent they are effective in
action, do good deeds, and feel confident of themselves.
In search of security as they are the "Security Seeking Personality" --
they trust in legitimacy and hunger for membership.
20 of the presidents of the US have been “sj” types.
Isabel Myers attributed: dependable, factual, good maintainers,
painstaking, routinized, thorough, conservative,consistent, detailed, hard-
working, patient, persevering, sensible, stable, and unimpulsive.
Rationals (nt)
Engineers
– Architect (iNTp)
– Inventor (eNTp)
Coordinators
– Mastermind (iNTj)
– Fieldmarshal (eNTj)
Rationals (nt)
ABSTRACT communication
Strong in STRATEGIC
ANALYSIS
5% - 7% of the population
Knowledge seeking
Individualizing as parents,
mindmates as spouses,
learning oriented as children.
Rationals (nt)
Their most practiced and developed intelligent operations tend to
be marshalling and planning (NTJ organizing). iNTj is considered
the most independent of all the types.
They are proud of themselves when they feel competence in
action, in the degree to which they are autonomous, and their
confidence is bolstered by their strong will.
Ever in search of achievement, this is the “knowledge seeking”
personality -- trusting in reason and hungering for achievement.
They tend to migrate toward the sciences and technology.
They are infrequent in the population, comprising no more than
7%.
There have been 8 “nt” presidents of the US.
Idealists (nf)
Advocates
– Healer (iNFp)
– Champion (eNFp)
Mentors
– Counselor (iNFj)
– Teacher (eNFj)
Idealists (nf)
ABSTRACT communication
COOPERATIVE in achieving
goals
Diplomatic Integration
8% - 10% of the population
Typical values ?
Dept.Vs.Gen’l Population ?
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46
Introvert Sensing Feeling Judging
MBTI - Dept. Vs. Gen’l Population
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30
20
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Guardian Rational Idealist Artisan
Artisan
16%
Guardian
Idealist 46%
22%
Rational
16%
Citations and resources
Please Understand Me, An Essay on Temperament Styles, by David
Keirsey and Marilyn Bates.
– Prometheus Nemesis Book Company. One of the more widely known books
describing the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. It includes a self-test (many do
not consider it to be as good as the "real" MBTI test). See
http://www.keirsey.com. By far the best web site on the subject I came
across.
Gifts Differing, Isabel Briggs-Myers (with Peter Myers). Consulting
Psychologists Press, 1980 ISBN 0-89106-011-1 (pb) 0-89106-015-4 (hb).
– The real Please Understand Me, from the horse's mouth (i.e., the daughter
in the original mother/daughter pair). No self-test included.
http://www.delta-associates.com/mbti.html . Self test only with
authorization.
Looking at Type: The Fundamentals by Charles Martin, Ph.D. This is the
book we got when we took the tests.