INTP Personality Types and Team Building

In Blogs, INTP, Team Building, Team Culture by Geeta Aneja

Your Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®) personality type can affect how you learn, make decisions and process information as well as aid in successful team building and how you collaborate with others. Understanding your behavioral tendencies can help you anticipate how you may feel or react in a broad range of circumstances, as well as identify any areas of improvement and … Read More

ISFP Personality Types and Efficient Team Building

In Blogs, Business and Leadership, ISFP, Leadership, MBTI, Personality Type, Team Building, Team Culture by Geeta Aneja

Different people behave in different ways in large part due to their personalities. Developing a nuanced understanding of team members’ Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI®) Personality type provides a way of better anticipating how they may behave in various situations as individuals and in cooperative environments. In this post, we will take a closer look at the Introverted- Sensing-Feeling-Perception (ISFP) personality … Read More

ISTJ Preferences and Building Effective Teams

In Blogs, Business and Leadership, ISTJ Personality Type Blogs, Leadership, MBTI, Personality Type, Resources, Team Building, Team Culture by Geeta Aneja

Myers-Briggs® Personality Type can shape our behavior, often without individuals being aware of it. It can influence how people build personal and professional relationships, contribute to group efforts, and interact with other team members. This blog will look at Introverted-Sensing-Thinking-Judgment (ISTJ) personality types and how they function on teams in the workplace. ISTJ On a Team In a word, ISTJs … Read More

The Strong Interest Inventory assessment: Using Career Assessments in the LGBTQ Community

In Blogs, Careers, Strong Interest Inventory by Jonathan Bollag, Owner and Founder

Happy Pride Month!   The Strong Interest Inventory assessment: Using Career Assessments in the LGBTQ Community   The Strong Interest Inventory assessment has been a widely used career placement tool for many years. It was first introduced in 1927, undergoing a major renovation in the 1980s and again in the early 2000s. In 2012, new data was gathered to provide … Read More

TKI Conflict Management Style and Teams

In Blogs, Resources, Team Culture, TKI by Geeta Aneja

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Successful Conflict Management When working on teams with other people, conflict is an unavoidable fact of life. Different people inherently care about different things, and sometimes those concerns seem incompatible. Differences like this are the source of conflict. Conflict often gets a bad reputation, after all, it can create tension or strife, especially in the workplace. However, it can also … Read More

TKI Conflict Management Style: Accommodating

In Blogs, Resources, Team Culture, TKI by Geeta Aneja

Successful Conflict Management While conflict is often seen as inherently oppositional, it can also be understood as different people caring about different things. From this perspective, conflict becomes two people working together to reach a decision amenable to all parties, rather than an argument in which one person “wins” and the other “loses.” The Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument (TKI®) is … Read More

TKI Conflict Management Style: Avoiding

In Blogs, Resources, Team Culture, TKI by Geeta Aneja

Successful Conflict Management Most people experience conflict on an almost daily basis because we interact with other people frequently, and sometimes we have different values or care about different things. Most of the time, the stakes are low—for example where to have a meeting or what to order for lunch—but sometimes, someone’s employment or even the integrity of an entire … Read More

TKI Conflict Management Style: Compromising

In Blogs, Resources, Team Culture, TKI by Geeta Aneja

Successful Conflict Management Most people think of conflict as being inherently negative. After all, conflict is a disagreement between two or more people who have fundamentally different goals, isn’t it? This perspective, while not unfounded, can create tension in personal and professional relationships. Another way to think about conflict is as two or more people who care about different things … Read More

TKI Conflict Management Style: Collaborating

In Blogs, Resources, Team Culture, TKI by Geeta Aneja

Successful Conflict Management Conflict is often seen as being negative or oppositional. Two people want different things; one is right and the other is wrong. However, this is not the only perspective. Conflict can also be framed as two people needing to reach an agreement, even if they care about different things or have different values. The Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode … Read More

TKI Conflict Management Style: Competing

In Blogs, Resources, Team Culture, TKI by Geeta Aneja

Successful Conflict Management Conflict is a universal human experience. We have conflicts over things as small as what to have for dinner or the best way to decorate a room, and as big as how to allocate meager resources or navigate a business negotiation. While conflict is often framed as being entirely negative—with one person or idea entirely opposed to … Read More

An Introduction to The Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument™ (TKI™ Assessment)

In Blogs, Resources, Team Culture, TKI by Geeta Aneja

Successful Conflict Management We all have different behavioral tendencies and there are bound to be times when our individualities may clash. This conflict does not have to be considered in a negative light and can be used as a means for organizational improvement and personal development. The Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument™ was designed to identify one’s preferred conflict resolution style … Read More

Learn About The Strong Interest Inventory® Career Assessment

In Blogs, Careers, College Prep, Strong Interest Inventory by Geeta Aneja

The Strong Interest Inventory® assessment represents the measurement of interests for educational and career planning. The theory behind this assessment is based on the pattern of one’s interests and the correlation to choices for career placement or career development. This assessment has been revised for both validity and reliability, as well as for content and structure continually over the course … Read More