The professional environment today is incredibly competitive. In order to be successful, people need to be able to maintain their current workload while also constantly learning the latest new techniques or being aware of the latest developments in their field. Staying one step ahead of the competition can mean the difference between landing a job or not. As we all … Read More
Leadership and Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® Personality Type Podcast Episode 1. The INTJ Personality Type.
How does your Personality Type affect your leadership style? In this episode, Jonathan Bollag explores the INTJ Personality Type and how it can affect you in life and in the workplace.
The TKI and Interpersonal Conflict
The Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument (TKI) Profile and Interpretive Report is a self-report questionnaire designed to measure your tendencies in dealing with interpersonal conflict (Thomas, K. 2002). The TKI measures five conflict-handling styles in the form of a percentage as compared to a sample of 8,000 working adults who have been administered this assessment. Learn more about the TKI Assessment Report and become more efficient in using your five interpersonal conflict modes.
The Firo-B and The FIRO Business
The differences between The Fundamental Interpersonal Relations Orientation Behavior Report (The Firo-B) and The Fundamental Interpersonal Orientations Business Report (The Firo Business) lies in the type of need each personality test measures. As stated in the Career Assessment Site Blog entitled, “The Firo Assessments: Honing in on Your Interpersonal Wants and Needs,” the Firo-B measures your need for Inclusion, Control, and Affection. On the other hand, the Firo Business measures three organizational oriented needs Connection, Influence, and Involvement.
MBTI™ Team Culture Part 2
This Podcast explains how Myers-Briggs (MBTI) Personality Type differences play an important role in successful teams and in life. I discuss how we must embrace and celebrate our differences as oppossed to shying away and discouraging differentiating ideas, personalities and ways of living and functioning. I give an example of a “Dream Team” pair of opposite personalities from our history that would have created the perfect think tank due to their genius and opposite ISTJ and ENFP MBTI Personality Types.
MBTI™ Personality Differences
This Podcast explains how Myers-Briggs (MBTI) Personality Type differences play an important role in successful teams and in life. I discuss how we must embrace and celebrate our differences as oppossed to shying away and discouraging differentiating ideas, personalities and ways of living and functioning. I give an example of a “Dream Team” pair of opposite personalities from our history that would have created the perfect think tank due to their genius and opposite ISTJ and ENFP MBTI Personality Types.
MBTI™ Team Culture Part 1
Team Culture can be defined as a pattern of shared basic assumptions invented, discovered, or developed by a given group as it learns to cope with its problems of external adaptation and internal integration. If you are a team manager, leader, business owner, or simply part of a team that might be sputtering, The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) Team Report can help you and your team self-manage successfully. By administering this MBTI assessment, you will discover your team’s combined personality type and apply your results to team action and problem solving.
The ENTJ MBTI® Personality Type and Learning Styles
Believe it or not, graduation is just the start of most peoples’ educational journey. In today’s fast-paced work environment, learning on-the-job is almost always part of the job. Some vocations, like teachers and nurses, have required continuing education. Others, like carpenters and mechanics have mentorship or apprenticeship programs. Whatever your situation is, discovering your Myers-Briggs® Personality Type (MBTI®) can help … Read More
Myers-Briggs® Test ESTJ Personality Types and Communication in The Workplace
People can differ vastly in the way they prefer to communicate- from reserved and soft-spoken to having to be at the center of every conversation. These differences can be particularly stressful in the workplace, where projects need to be completed as accurately and efficiently as possible, and where a miscommunication can have serious financial or even legal consequences. Fortunately, … Read More
Myers Briggs® INFJ Personality Types and Communication in The Workplace
Communication is of the utmost importance in having successful business and personal interactions. While each of us communicates with numerous people in our day-to-day lives, few of us consider why or how we communicate or how our communication style may affect others. In the workplace, however, these unintended effects can snowball and cause problems that could have been prevented … Read More
Myers-Briggs® Test ENFP Personality Types and Communication in The Workplace
According to Dunning (2003), “Communication is key to a successful business and personal interactions” (Dunning, p.1). Not only can improving your communication “increase your effectiveness as an employee, supervisor, trainee, coach, team member, and/or leader” (Dunning, p. 1), but it can also increase the efficiency of communication between employees or team members, ultimately increasing the output of your team … Read More
Myers Briggs® ISFJ Personality Types and Communication
For decades if not centuries, miscommunications in the workplace have been the inevitable result of people with different backgrounds from different walks of life. However, building on new research in understanding Myers-Briggs Personality Types in which Dunning (2003) has observed relationships between how people communicate and their MBTI personality type. This post delves into how being aware of the Myers-Briggs … Read More