If you tend to be quiet and reserved, difficult to get to know well, action oriented a doer, very aware and perceptive, sympathetic and warm, no desire to lead or control others..well you may be "IFSP."
https://youtu.be/-oH7WNJxatY

ESFP  Are you ESFP?? Well if you are, everybody likes to be around you. And you most likely enjoy being around everybody else. If you are this type you honestly, and in all sincerity truly are a "people person." Take a look at this:

Building Work Teams for Small Business Using the Myers Bricks

 Had a chance to record a brief session with Tom Borg regarding  some ideas on how to use the power personality type revealed by Myers-Briggs for teambuilding within the small business environment.  Check out the audio link below:

https://lnkd.in/bJKrsXu

They Are So Young… I hope they get it!

 I just spent three hours, maybe a little more than that, presenting the results of the Myers-Briggs personality indicator to her group of college students that are in an organization called Early College Alliance. These are really bright young people that have begun to take college classes while they are still in high school.

As I began to present to these young people it occurred to me that what I want them to see is what I did not see.

I want them to know the power of the most instinctive part of them; the power of their personality type. Personality type being an instinctive preference for certain behaviors.

Now I was approaching them from the standpoint of career planning. I am a career planner of 31 years experience, so that would be a natural thing for me to do. The one huge take away I wanted them to see, that I did not see at their age, is that if they can find a career that matches their personality type more rather than less their life will be happier.

If they do the opposite, not only work, most of their life will likely be miserable and it really is that simple and it really is that complicated. It really is that simple.

I could tell I was holding their attention, some of them were listening.

We talked about their dominant function being there "love" secret and there "communication" secret. They really pay attention when I mentioned the "love" part-that is almost always the case in these presentations.

Well, there is power in the knowledge your personality type if we can use what we identify. Some of these young people will be coming to my university some of them won't. I hope the ones that do look me up, and even though I will be retiring in a few years, and trying to do some of this on the side as a consultant, I would like to try to help as many of these young people as I can.

How to Use Myers Briggs for Small Business Needs

What Language Are You Speaking?

 Have you ever noticed that sometimes when people are talking to you, you just get it?!

What happened in that moment of realization is that you "got it" because they were speaking in your psychological language. That might sound funny but it is powerfully true.

Everyone speaks through what we call the "Dominant" function of your personality type. I am not going to go into the details of that now; however, it is enough to know that it's there and that it is a huge communication clue.

It may not be easy, and it is not, that is to speak somebody else's dominant function language; however, if you are concerned with really good communication that is exactly what we all need to do more than we do!

I speak English, but I speak it intuitively because intuition is my dominant function. Well that's just great unless I am talking to a dominant sensor, and if that is the case, believe me you can take this to the bank they are not understanding most of what I'm saying even though we are both speaking English!

They do not understand most of what I'm saying because they need to hear English spoken as a "sensor" would speak it-and I'm not a sensor.

Well, could go on and on but sometimes I wonder what the point is. Actually, the point is that we have such incredible power from the knowledge of our personality type if we could just learn how to use it better-well if we could just learn how to use it!

More next time.

"Will my personality type change over time?"

This is a question I have been asked hundreds of times in the last 29 years of working with personality type in the quick answer is no; that is also the honest answer, although at times one may feel their type has changed.

The reason for feeling like your personality type may have changed is because you have in all likelihood been exposed to use in your non-preferred behaviors quite a bit. This could be because you're working in a job that requires you to use non-preferred behaviors in order to get the job done more rather than less, or you been exposed to some kind of environment and do not have the opportunity to use your preferred behaviors.

Remember personality type is instinctive. In other words while you were's literally being formed in the womb of your mother you were imprinted to prefer certain behaviors over others; however, you will and should use all behaviors.

So, it can be reassuring to know that once you know which of the 16 personality types you are, you will be that type for the rest of your life. It may also be reassuring to know that you will use hundreds of behaviors you do not prefer and that is not necessarily a bad thing unless you use them too much.