Introduction to Personality Type
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TYPEFOCUS CAREERS V 5.0
What will you learn today?
Overview of Personality Type Theory
Four type-factor preferences
Affirm your own personality type
Application of Theory
Understanding yourself better when:
• career planning
Understanding others better when:
• communicating one-on-one
• communicating in a team
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Understanding Others Through Understanding Yourself
Carl Jung
1875 - 1961
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It all starts with self-awareness
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Your strengths & talents
What affects your job satisfaction
Identify areas of growth
Increases self-acceptance
Helps you understand others:
• Better communications
• Improved teamwork
• Less conflict
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 Why do self assessment?
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Energy
Understanding Others Through Understanding Yourself
EXTRAVERSION
Being energized through contact
with other people or through
engaging in activities(the outer
world)
INTROVERSION
Being energized through ideas,
quiet times,
or solitude
(the inner world)
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Information
Understanding Others Through Understanding Yourself
SENSING
Paying attention to what you
perceive through the five senses:
seeing, hearing, touching, smelling,
and tasting
INTUITION
Paying attention to what
might be described as the
sixth sense—the unseen
world of meanings,
inferences, hunches,
insights, and connections
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Understanding Others Through Understanding
Yourself
Decisions
THINKING
FEELING
Making decisions based
on impartial criteria—
cause-effect reasoning, constant
principles or truths, and logic
Making decisions based
on values-based,
person-centered criteria, seeking
harmony
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Understanding Others Through Understanding Yourself
Approach to Life
JUDGING
Want to live an ordered life, with
goals and structure, making
decisions so you can move on
PERCEIVING
Want to live a spontaneous life with
flexibility, staying open to new
information and possibilities
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Understanding Others Through Understanding Yourself
Function Pairs
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Understanding Others Through Understanding Yourself
Reframing
Feeling Lens
What a feeling
person perceives:
Logic
Compassion
Decisions based on
Policy and procedures
Taking people’s feelings
into account
Mercy
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Understanding Others Through Understanding Yourself
Reframing
Feeling Lens
What a feeling
person perceives:
The person does NOT see
the COMPLEMENTARY
STRENGTH - only the lack
of feeling - therefore the
perception is a NEGATIVE
one - that is: UN-feeling.
Logic
Business-like decisions
Decisions based on
Policy and procedures
Decisions based on
organizational needs
Justice
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Understanding Others Through Understanding
Yourself
TypeFlexing
Working to the OTHER PERSON’S strengths
For Extraverts - action, talking,
group work
For Introverts - prefer written
communication, one-on-ones
For Sensing-types - practical
applications, specific examples
For iNtuition-types - consider future
possibilities, broad issues
For Thinking-types - want logic
and business-like approach
For Feeling-types - prefer to be
compassionate and harmonious
For Judging-types - want
schedules and deadlines
For Perceiving-types - resist too
much organization, open to change.
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Understanding Others Through Understanding
Yourself
Organizational Culture
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Understanding Others Through Understanding
Yourself
The End
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