Temperament Profiling is an Absolute Must.

Temperament Profiling is an Absolute Must.

Profiling isn’t just a helpful tool for understanding your unique personality, it’s also a matter of life and death in the workplace.  Expertly profile yourself to help others and take steps to ensure your job is being done correctly, whether you are applying for a promotion or looking for an opening.

If you're like most people, you might be wondering what all the fuss about this new method of psychometric profiling is about. All it takes is a 5-minute test that will give you valuable insight into your personality.

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is the most widely used and researched instrument for profiling human personality. It was invented by Isabel Myers and her mother, Katharine Briggs, in the 1940s.

The MBTI is based on Carl Jung's theory of psychological types: Extraversion versus Introversion, Sensing versus Intuition, Thinking versus Feeling, and Judging versus Perceiving. Jung's theory of psychological types has become more popular over the years because it provides a way to categorize people based on their personalities.

The MBTI is reliable, valid, and easy to use. If you want to learn more about this fascinating method of personality profiling and test your mood-disposition rating on each of the 16 personality types, click here>>

How to Take the Test

It’s important that you take the questionnaires seriously because they are meant to measure the way you think. These tests are not there to make fun of people or hold them accountable for things they have no control over. They only require that you answer honestly and truthfully based on your own beliefs about yourself as well as what you know about other people’s personalities. You can take the test at this address: http://www.16personalities.com/temperament-profiler-test.aspx

Here are some online resources you may find helpful in understanding your type:

Dr. Carl Jung, who captured the essence of "the collective unconscious" and integrated it into the psychology of personality, coined the four letter code for psychological preferences that today are referred to as the MBTI. The acronym was originally only four letters long, OPPO (originally OPT), but it was later changed by a careless error and so there is now an extra letter added to MBTI - TPS). Many people still use the original name of the test as "OPO". Here are many useful links to resources that you may find helpful.

The original MBTI was developed by Katharine Cook Briggs and her daughter Isabel Briggs Myers, both educators who were interested in Jung’s research. The first guide to types was the book called "Gifts Differing", written by Katharine Cook Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers. This was developed from Jung’s work, but their interpretation changed over time as it matured over several decades until it took its current form. Here is a link for more information about Gifts Differing: http://www.giftsdiffering.com/story-of-mbti.html

The MBTI and Jungian Typology:

MBTI-based personality assessment tools analyze your cognitive and behavioral tendencies, as measured by the five preferences for how you approach challenges in your life. The MBTI provides a more objective means to understand how you process information, as well as how you think and act. MBTI also provides a more accurate way to predict job performance, enable people to work more effectively together, and identify ways they can improve their careers and lives. Here are some articles on the principle of Jungian typology:

Your personality assessment will tell you if your scores are compatible with other people in your type. Here are some online resources you may find helpful:

Free Personality Typing Tests from 16 Personalities: An online personality assessment that measures your MBTI type, the leading psychological assessment tool in the world, and reveals the unique personality characteristics of all 16 personalites.

The 16 Types: Learn about the 16 Myers-Briggs Type Indicators (MBTI) personality types, including descriptions of each type, who is most likely to be that type, what they like to do in life (career), and how they tend to make decisions.

A PDF file containing links to many character traits for each type.

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and Jungian Typology

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® is a comprehensive personality inventory designed to predict individual preferences in work, school, and social environments. Since its development in the 1940's, the MBTI has become the most widely used personality assessment method in the world.

About 16 Personalities: "16 Personalities is a website that purports to be a reference for the 16 Myers-Briggs personality types. The site seems to have been created by an amateur user who is not aware of other websites with similar content." Here are links to some of those sites: http://www.16personalities.com/resources/links.aspx

16 Personalities Quiz: This is a one-page personality test based on the 16 personality types theory of Carl Jung. It will ask you a few questions and give you your type based on your answers. Once you take this test and are given your type, there's another page with resources for further information about it.

About Jungian Typology: A description of the four personality preferences as devised by Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961).

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is the most widely used and researched instrument for profiling human personality. It was invented by Isabel Myers and her mother, Katharine Briggs, in the 1940s.

The MBTI is based on Carl Jung's theory of psychological types: Extraversion versus Introversion, Sensing versus Intuition, Thinking versus Feeling, and Judging versus Perceiving. Jung's theory of psychological types has become more popular over the years because it provides a way to categorize people based on their personalities.

The MBTI assessment yields one of sixteen personality types. The MBTI was revised in the mid-1980s by Isabel Myers' daughter, Isabel Briggs-Myers to include the four types found in Jung's original theory: Extroversion, Sensing, Thinking and Perceiving. In 1998 a significant revision of the MBTI instrument caused Type-Indicators to be labeled with a new name: the MBTI® Step II™ Instrument.

The MBTI Step II™ has been embraced as a popular and effective tool for influencing behavior and actions at work, school, home and within social relationships.

Conclusion: We know your personality type is unique to you and influences the way you live your life. The MBTI is a way of understanding how that works with others and what you need to do differently. A typical self-development tool, the MBTI can be applied in an area, career or relationship and provide a more accurate picture of where things may be going wrong instead of where they are going well.

Here are some online resources you may find helpful:

The Myers Briggs Type Indicator, 16 Personalities Quiz & Personality Profile: The Myers Briggs Type Indicator is designed to step you through the process of identifying one's type using the given questionnaire.