2013 EREA Women in Leadership National Forum
‘Choosing your own adventure ...
the many pathways to leadership in EREA
schools’
Understanding Yourself and Others
An Invaluable Skill in Leadership
Workshop 4 May 30 2013
Donna George
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Leadership Skill 101
Talking to People
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Key Elements
• Understanding the people who we
need to work through to achieve our
plans.
• Using conversations and
conversational awareness to enable
success.
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Jung’s Theory
• Every person carries out two kinds of mental
process:
– we take in information (Perception)
– then make decisions (Judgment) about the incoming
information.
• There are only two ways to take in
information:
– Sensing and
– Intuition
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Jung’s Theory (contd.)
There are only two ways to make decisions
about incoming information:
Thinking-decisions made on impersonal,
objective logic.
Feeling-decisions made with a person-centered,
value-based process.
Both processes are rational and we use both of
them, but usually not equally easily.
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Jung’s Theory (contd.)
Jung also described another ‘attitude’ or ‘orientation’.
He observed that we all live in two worlds:
• the Outer world of things, people and events, and
• the Inner world of our own thoughts, feelings and
reflections.
Because you can’t be in both worlds simultaneously
– you have to choose.
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Four Dichotomies
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Extraversion/Intraversion
Sensing/ iNutition
Thinking/ Feeling
Judging/ Perceiving
(MBTI Types: ISTJ, INTJ, ESTJ, ENFP etc.)
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Extraversion or Introversion
E or I
The direction we focus our attention and energy
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Sensing or iNtuition
S or N
Associations
The way we take in information and the kind of
information we like and trust.
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Thinking or Feeling
T or F
Ways of making decisions
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Judging or Perceiving
J or P
Our attitude to the external world and how we orient
ourselves to it.
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Four dichotomies
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Extraversion/Intraversion
Sensing/ iNutition
Thinking/ Feeling
Judging/ Perceiving
(MBTI Types: ISTJ, INTJ, ESTJ, ENFP etc.)
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Using your knowledge of MBTI types to
improve your leadership of others?
• running meetings
• communicating with particular individuals or
groups
• acting with self awareness of your own
preferences
• catering for all MBTI preferences in your
planning
• allocating tasks to team members.
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Linking to our WiL Forum presenters?
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