Myers-Briggs Type Indicator®

THE AUTHORS: The MBTI instrument was develop by Katharine Cook Briggs (1875-1968) and her daughter, Isabel Briggs Myers (1897-1980), to help everyday people solve everyday problems. The MBTI was first published in 1943 and became an internationally accepted instrument in 1956.

THE THEORY: The MBTI is based on the work of Swiss psychologist Carl G. Jung, who presented his psychological type theory in his book Psychological Types (published 1921, translated into English 1923).

WORLDWIDE USE: The MBTI is the most widely used personality type indicator used in the world today with an average of 2 million people taking the MBTI in the US alone per year. The MBTI is used in 70+ countries and has been translated into 70 different languages. Most Fortune 100 companies uses the MBTI for annually team-building workshops.

MBTI MECHANICS: The MBTI simply gives an indication of one’s personality type by asking preference questions that deal with:

Extroversion (E) vs. Introversion (I)
Sensing (S) vs. Intuition (N)
Thinking (T) vs. Feeling (F)
Judging (J) vs. Perceiving (P)

Your four letter “Whole Type” indication of your personality. Regardless if our preference is slight or very clear for one of eight preferences, we tend to make decisions that align with that preference and thus our whole “four letter” type.

USES & APPELLATIONS: By understanding our innate personality type, we better understand our natural gifts as well as what might be awkward for us to deal with. Thus, by knowing our type, we can now align ourselves with opportunities that fit our personality type and how to work with and respect others and their personality type gifts.

SAMPLE MBTI REPORTS:

MBTI Form M Interpretive PDF - MBTI Form M For Organizations PDF - MBTI Form Q Interpretive PDF -- MBTI Teams Report PDF

How To Take The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator®

FIRST: You have to be a client or on the staff of a client and have received a letter, email, or phone call with instructions from us on which assessment instruments to complete. If you are not a client and interested in taking the MBTI Step I - Form M or Step II - Form Q, we will be happy to work with you; however, we need to be contacted with a phone call to review your unique situation in order to prepare for you an engagement letter for you to sign and return.

SECOND: You must not be under any stress or feel like you have to take the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. You should have a “Shoes Off Mind-Set" and try not to answer questions in a work vs. private life mode - Answer the questions being true to who you are. Let yourself be pulled to the answer that is most preferable to your personality. The MBTI is voluntary - no one can require you to take the MBTI.

THIRD: Your results is confidential. No one will know your reported type without your permission. It’s also important for you to know that it is unethical for MBTI type information to be used in making career decisions on others. All types excel in all jobs for a wide range of reasons. In addition, know that the MBTI is NOT an IQ test, it’s only an instrument that gives an indication of your personality type. You, make the final decision on your personality type.

FOURTH: Take the MBTI Instrument by clicking on the SkillsOne Logo below, which will take you to the Strategic Path Group SkillsOne.com page. Log into the site using the following information in lower case type:

LOGIN: strategic

PASSWORD: path

User ID: Will be assigned to you if you do not finish the instrument. To pick up where you left off, access the SkillsOne.com just as you did before, with your User ID, and you will be taken back to where you left off.

Once in the SkillsOne site, follow the instructions. Your printed results will be given to you at your workshop or emailed to you after you have been guided through a self selection process. Click Here To Access SkillsOne.com