MBTI

Your MBTI Type will give you information about your preferred way of working and interacting with people. It is a constructive framework for understanding differences between people and using them in a positive way.

It is a useful tool for building self-awareness and can also be used to enable people to work together in a complementary way.

Working with an MBTI practitioner can help to apply this knowledge to:

• valuing diversity
• improving working relationships and teamwork
• developing leadership styles
• enhancing communication
• managing change
• solving problems
• dealing with stress

All types are equal. The goal of knowing about personality type is to understand and appreciate differences between people. As all types are equal, there is no best type.

The MBTI instrument sorts for preferences and does not measure trait, ability, or character so it is not used for recruitment purposes.

People who are certified to administer the MBTI instrument are committed to using it in an ethical way which includes protecting your confidentiality, showing you how to verify your type, giving feedback interactively, and presenting all types as valuable.

The MBTI assessment is administered either online or in paper format.

There are no right or wrong answers in the MBTI assessment, just the response that fits you best. There may be some questions where both responses fit you, or neither, in which case please choose the response that fits closest.

If you really cannot choose on a question you can leave it out ( up to a maximum of 5 questions).

The best approach is to read each item carefully and then answer without thinking too long about any question.

It typically takes around 25 minutes to complete the assessment but there is no time limit and you can take as long as you need. However we would encourage you to work through quickly and not ponder too long.

Your MBTI practitioner will help you verify your MBTI type and discuss your results either individually or in a group setting.

Your MBTI report will tell you your preference for each of four pairs:

• Extraversion or Introversion (E or I)
• Sensing or Intuition (S or N)
• Thinking or Feeling (T or F)
• Judging or Perceiving (J or P)

The four preferences together make up your whole type. There are 16 possible personality types.

• within some of our development programmes e.g. the Essentials of Management, Human Factors
• at an individual level in coaching and mentoring relationships.
• at a team level to support team development