SPOT Chicago member Katia Arango shares her presentation on Understanding Myers-Briggs Personality Type Indicators.

1. Understanding Myers-Briggs Type
Indicator (MBTI) by Katia Arango

2. Objectives
 Gain understanding of Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
 Provide examples of people’s differences concerning:
- energy source
- information gathering
- decision making
- life style
 Explore how this information can be applicable in everyday
work and life
 Walk away encouraged to take the test and capitalize on
the knowledge by applying awareness

3. Myers Briggs Type Indicator Background
 What is it?
 Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is evaluation tool to obtain descriptive profiles of personality types
 93 questions to score self report responses to determine participants' preferences within four sets of
attributes: extroversion/introversion
sensing/intuiting
thinking/feeling
judging/perceiving
 Way to sort – not to measure
 Established how and when?
 Based on psychoanalyst Carl Jung’s theory of people’s innate preferences
 Established by mother and daughter Katharine Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers during World War II
 Created to assist career placement of civilians - women to choose jobs well-suited to their personality
preferences.
 Where is it used?
 2MM people worldwide annually
 Used in: Business World
Education Field
Personal and Spiritual Development
Family/Marriage counseling & Dating

4. Four Opposite Preference Pairs (Dichotomies)
Extraversion ENERGY Introversion
Sensing INFORMATION iNtuition
Thinking DECISIONS Feeling
Judging LIFESTYLE Perceiving

5. 16 MBTI Personality Profiles

6. How Are You Energized?
Extroversion
 External
 Outside thrust
 Blurt it out
 Breadth
 Work more with people and things
 Interaction
 Wants to change the world
 Action
 Do-think-do
 After thinkers
 Approachable
Introversion
 Internal
 Inside pull
 Keep it in
 Depth
 Work more with ideas and thoughts
 Concentration
 Wants to understand the world
 Reflection
 Think-do-think
 Fore thinkers
 Impenetrable

7. How Do You Gather Information ?
I’ve just had a
fantastic new
idea for next
week’s BTB
meeting!
This is a fairly
short ride for
the price
Sensing
 Five Senses
(reliance on experience and
actual data)
 Practicality
 Reality
 Present focus
 Live life as it is
 Prefers using learned skills
 Pays attention to details
 Makes few factual errors
INtuition
 Sixth Sense
(reliance on possibility and
inspiration)
 Innovative
 Abstraction
 Future focus
 Change, rearrange life
 Prefers adding new skills
 Looks at “Big Picture”
 Identifies complex patterns

8. How Do You Make Decisions or Come to Conclusions?
She has good I like her.
credentials.
Thinking
 Decisions based on the logic of
the situation
 Things
Truth
Principles
 Solves problems
 Is brief and businesslike
 Acts impersonally
 Treats others fairly
Feeling
Decisions based on human
values and needs
 People
Tact
Harmony
 Supports others
 Is naturally friendly
 Acts personally
 Treats others uniquely

9. What is Your Lifestyle or Work Orientation?
Glad this is
finished.
Plenty
of time.
Judgment
 Planned
 Decisive
 Self-regimented
 Purposeful
 Exacting
 Focus on completing task
 Makes decisions quickly
 Wants only the essentials of the job
Perception
 Spontaneous
 Curious
 Flexible
 Adaptable
 Tolerant
 Focus on starting tasks
 Postpones decisions
 Wants to find out about the job

10. Wrap Up and Q&A
 Did you guess which personality profile you are?
 Do you see yourself applying gained knowledge
immediately?