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The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a psychometric questionnaire designed to measure psychological preferences in how people perceive the world and make decisions.

For more than 50 years, the MBTI® has helped millions of individuals throughout the world gain a deeper understanding of themselves and how they interact with others. The MBTI instrument helps people transform themselves—by giving them a powerful tool for understanding and improving how they communicate, learn, and work.

Through completion of the MBTI questionnaire (`reported type') and a personal feedback session (including `self-assessed type') an individual's unique personal type, with associated characteristics, will be revealed.

MBTI measures the preferences that we have within our personalities and the strengths of those preferences. It produces a picture of each individual’s set of personality preferences across four scales. These are:

Extraversion-Introversion – how each of us is energised
Sensing-Intuition – what each of us pays attention to
Thinking-Feeling – how we conclude and take decisions
Judging-Perceiving – what kind of lifestyle we prefer

The purpose of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI) is to make the theory of psychological types described by C. G. Jung (1921/1971) understandable and useful in people's lives.

The essence of the theory is that much seemingly random variation in the behaviour is actually quite orderly and consistent, being due to basic differences in the ways individuals prefer to perceive and reach conclusions.

If people differ systematically in what they perceive and in how they reach conclusions, then it is only reasonable for them to differ correspondingly in their interests, reactions, values, motivations, and skills. This has naturally big implications in areas like: leadership, teamwork, communication, choice of career, conflict management, coping with organisational changes and stress.

The MBTI instrument’s wide-ranging applications promote growth and development in many organizational settings, including business, coaching & counselling, and education.

Subsequent applications include team roles and development, education and career counseling, management and leadership development, coping with organizational change, dealing with stress and understanding emotional intelligence

Applications

The MBTI Instrument can be applied to business, educational, career guidance and counselling settings. It has broad practical applications including:

Developing Leadership Potential
Self-awareness is fundamental to good leadership. An understanding of the impact that personal style has on people’s motivation and commitment is essential. The MBTI instrument helps managers assess their strengths and development needs, their preferred style of problem-solving and also how their style relates to that of others.

Developing Effective Teams.
We make the MBTI meaningful to you and your team in a practical, engaging an interactive way. Our experiential and activity based approach to the MBTI uses the personal insights gained from this classic personality type indicator coupled with eye-opening and engaging activities to yield powerful new understandings at the individual and team levels.

By integrating exciting and interactive challenges into the Myers-Briggs workshop, we creates opportunities for teams to experience type in action - generating greater understanding and new insights into the team’s variety of human complexity and potential.

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is an indispensable tool for pulling work teams together and creating better understanding of how to take advantage of the resources of the team, utilizing the power of synergy and release the full team potential

Using our experiential approach teams can practise, reflect and evaluate on their strengths and development needs and also clarify biases in their working practices.

teams are furthermore introduced to the Team compass. The Team Compass is dynamic and practical and a very effective and insightful tool designed to visualize the connection of the members of a team, i.e. how the individual members supplement each other in a process of working or decision-making.

Managing Change
Individuals with different type preferences tend to experience change and the process of transition in quite different ways. Building awareness of these different reactions can help managers and organisations support their staff and themselves through organisational change.

Improving Communication and Teaching Methods
The instrument can be used to help communicate better with people of different types, and to analyse and improve teaching methods. It provides a framework for understanding differences in learning styles and for creating learning situations which will appeal to different types.

Problem-Solving
The questionnaire gives an insight into potential strengths and blind-spots in problem-solving, encouraging individuals and groups to improve the depth and breadth of their analyses.

Counselling and Resolving Conflict
The instrument is very helpful in self-evaluation, explicitly emphasising the positive contribution that each type can make. It can also help in dealing with conflict in relationships as it focuses on valuing differences between people and improving understanding and co-operation.

Team compass
Through MBTI Teamcompass puts emphasis on team members' individual differences and personal resources available in the team. Through Teamcompass combined individual resources with different roles and functions that are essential to the team goals.

Information concerned Teamcompass - click here.

Discover some inspiring hours focusing on the MBTI - click here

We also organize various lectures and courses on MBTI - click here.

® Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and MBTI are registered trademarks of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Trust. OPP Limited is licensed to use the trade marks in Europe.