Ever wonder what Myers-Briggs personality type is all about? How can it help you be more successful? Reduce stress? Manage conflict? Build a team? This overview gives the nuts and bolts of the theory and helps you identify your own profile.

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2. So…
You want to know
about Myers Briggs?
Sit back and enjoy
(9 minutes if you let it run,
or click to go faster)
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3. A long, long time ago…
3 people were studying
personality differences.
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4. A Swiss psychologist, Carl Jung,
a mother from the
USA, Katherine Briggs,
and her daughter,
Isabelle Briggs Myers.
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5. Out of all their work,
a vision emerged.
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6. Isabel’s Vision…
“To enable individuals to grow
through an understanding and appreciation of
individual differences
in healthy personalities
and
to enhance harmony and productivity
among diverse groups.”
-Isabel Briggs Myers
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7. Isabelle’s Vision was…
“To enable individuals to grow
through an understanding and appreciation of
individual differences
in healthy personalities
and
to enhance harmony and productivity
among diverse groups.”
-Isabel Briggs Myers
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8. Isabelle’s Vision was…
“To enable individuals to grow
through an understanding and appreciation of
individual differences
in healthy personalities
and
to enhance harmony and productivity
among diverse groups.”
-Isabel Briggs Myers
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9. Isabelle’s Vision was…
“To enable individuals to grow
through an understanding and appreciation of
individual differences
in healthy personalities
and
to enhance harmony and productivity
among diverse groups.”
-Isabel Briggs Myers
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10. Isabelle’s Vision was…
“To enable individuals to grow
through an understanding and appreciation of
individual differences
in healthy personalities
and
to enhance harmony and productivity
among diverse groups.”
-Isabel Briggs Myers
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11. In other words….
Let’s just learn …
…to all get along!
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12. So far, so good.
But why is it important?
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13. Myers-Briggs (M-B)…
…is a way of understanding
the personality differences
between ourselves
and the people around us...
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14. … so that we can…
…value and use those differences
in a good way
instead of letting them create conflict
and strife in our lives.
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15. M-B can help us…
…understand ourselves better
so we can reach our potential
and achieve excellence
and be happier people.
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16. M-B can help us…
… understand our co-workers better
so we can figure out why
some people are easy to get along with
and others are just ,
well, you know,
IMPOSSIBLE!
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17. M-B can help us…
… understand our boss better
so we can figure out how
to give them what they want
so we can get
what we want.
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18. M-B can help us…
… understand our spouse/partner better
so we can figure out why
they do those things they do
that drive us absolutely
CRAZY!
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19. M-B can help us…
… understand our kids better
so we can finally figure out
how to motivate them to become
the great people we
know they can be.
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20. So you see…
It’s all about relationships!
Easy, eh?!
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21. Easier said than done!
Sadly, some people never figure out
what they’re naturally good at
or where their true talents lie.
Thankfully, M-B gives us a shortcut
to get those answers!
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22. In addition to figuring out how you can
get along better with those
people, you can also…
• Reduce your stress
• Find more balance in your life
• Find work that suits you better
• Learn faster and easier
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23. And…
• Find your source of creativity
• Be more innovative at work
• Be a better leader
• Improve your team’s morale
• Get your team to do more
and more
and more
without having to pay them more
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24. And…
• Manage time better
• Manage stress better
• Manage conflict better
• Communicate better
• Even live longer
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25. If you’re still with me,
you get the picture.
This is a very powerful way to
“improve harmony and productivity”
just like Isabel wanted.
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26. What’s the concept?
• M-B is like a map that measures our
preferences in 4 areas
• These 4 areas are the foundation upon which
our personalities develop throughout our
lifetime
• It does not measure how good we are at
something, or how much we have of it, only
how clear we are that we prefer one way over
another
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27. What’s the concept?
• In each of these 4 areas, we prefer one way
over another
• Because the areas relate to how our brain
works, we are born with these personality
patterns
• These patterns don’t change over time, but
we can adapt how we choose to use them at
time, in any situation
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28. What’s the concept?
• Lots of things influence how well we develop
our personality preferences:
– Family upbringing
– Education
– Career
– Opportunities we get
– Opportunities we don’t get
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29. What’s the concept?
Whether we’re right-handed or left-handed,
we are capable of using both hands…
but we naturally prefer
one over the other.
We can choose to use our non-preferred hand
any time we want to…
BUT when we do…
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30. Things take longer.
Stress and frustration go up.
Quality goes down.
We have to really think about
what we’re doing.
It’s a less successful experience overall.
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31. So it stands to reason…
… that if we identify our 4 preferences,
and choose to use them every day,
– both at work and at home –
we will find our life
much more satisfying.
DUH!!
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32. 4 Preference Areas
By identifying your preference in 4 areas,
you end up with a 4-letter M-B Type
For example,
I’m an ISTJ
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33. 4 Letters, 2 choices each
Each of the 4 positions in your type profile
represent a choice between 2 preferences
Introversion or Extraversion
Sensing or iNtuition
Thinking or Feeling
Judging or Perceiving
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34. Where do you get your energy; what
do you naturally pay attention to?
• Introversion
– You recharge your batteries best when you can
take time to be alone or with a small group where
you can take the time to think and reflect
OR
• Extraversion
– You get your energy from being around other
people and engaging in activities, and usually, the
more the merrier
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35. This can us help understand why…
• Some people are really hard to read or get to
know and others are like an open book
• Some people prefer to communicate in writing
even when the other person is close by
• Workplaces full of noise and activity can be
energizing for some and exhausting for others
• Some people seem to naturally think on their
feet and others seem to want to fully bake
their ideas before they say a word
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36. How does your brain prefer to
take in information?
• Sensing
– You notice and want all the details associated with
your 5 senses and anything that is real and in the
here-and-now
OR
• iNtuition
– You notice and want to understand the
relationships between the details and what it all
means
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37. This can us help understand why…
• Some people want to talk about things in
order and others seem to jump around all
over the place
• Some people need to ask all the detail
questions that cause others to want to scream
in agony
• Some people are always finding new and
creative ways to approach things instead of
just doing it the way it works
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38. What’s the process your brain prefers
to use to make a decision?
• Thinking
– You’ll use a logical process that is
objective, analytical and removed from the
situation, people and events
OR
• Feeling
– You’ll use a more sensitive and empathetic
approach that takes into consideration how you
and others feel
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39. This can us help understand why…
• Some people seem to always take things
personally and others seem like they never do
• Some people always seem to notice what’s
wrong where others always seem to notice
what’s right
• Some people are sticklers for the rules
regardless of circumstances, and others may
put aside the letter of the law in order to
apply the spirit of the law
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40. How do you prefer to live in the
outside world?
• Judging
– You like to live your life in an organized
fashion, having plans, structure and closure so
things can be settled
OR
• Perceiving
– You’d rather live your life in a spontaneous
way, keeping your options open and staying
flexible to change
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41. This can us help understand why…
• Some people are always early and others are
always late
• Some people are energized by deadlines and
last minute requests, and the same thing
causes others to have a melt down
• Some people get a rush out of checking things
off their ‘to-do’ list and other people cringe at
the thought of writing a list at all
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42. The bottom line
A powerful team is a diverse team,
whether that team is at work,
or at home.
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43. The challenge is to value the differences
and let them make the team better,
rather than allowing the differences
to be a negative and destructive force.
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44. Ethical Use: the fine print
• M-B is a very complex theory, which is why it
requires a certified practitioner to facilitate it
• Some people misinterpret the meaning of the
information, so it’s important to have an
opportunity to ask questions
• It’s not a label or a box that someone is trying
to force on you
• But it IS private information that you choose
to share with others as you see fit
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45. Wait… Tell me more!!!
If you’d like more information,
please send me an email.
(You could phone me, but I’m an introvert
and I prefer written communication!)
Visit my website at www.dawnfrail.com and sign
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leadership, including stuff about personality type.
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46. If you think your team
or your organization
could benefit from having a
M-B seminar or workshop,
contact me and let’s discuss it.
dawn@dawnfrail.com
519.927.1730
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47. Last but not least,
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48. Unleashing Greatness
With Myers Briggs
Dawn Frail
M-B Master Practitioner
519.927.1730
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