Session
Date
Thurs.
October
Session
#
Session
Time
3 EVE
18, 2012
Primary Instructor Name
Session Title
Differences in Thinking Styles
Phone
Instructor(s)
Courtney White
Email
Courtney White 208.631.7488 courtney@whiteofboise.com
Learning Objective:
This session aims to improve your personal effectiveness through a deeper understanding of the differences in how people process information, interact, and make decisions.
Advanced Preparation:
Pre-Assignment:
: Online personality test
1. Please go to the following link to take the Jung-based personality test posted there, which should take about 10 – 15 minutes:
2. After submitting your answers, the site will display your results. Please copy the percentage results (see below) into an email and forward to the instructor by October 11:
.
Here’s an example of the results one should cut-and-paste into an email:
Introverted (I) 86% Extraverted (E) 14%
Intuitive (N) 64% Sensing (S) 36%
Feeling (F) 80% Thinking (T) 20%
Judging (J) 91% Perceiving (P) 9%
Explanation & Qualifications : No test perfectly captures your personality, and different tests will yield different results. In fact, as you’ve adapted to be more successful, it can become more difficult to respond to these types of personality tests. To make the results most useful, select honest answers that represent your most natural self, not the product of your environment….perhaps the way a younger you might respond. Though each question lets you choose that you’re “in between” two statements, try to choose the statement you have any leaning toward; choose “in between” if you truly have no leaning between one statement and the other.
Regardless, our interest is less in the resulting labels but in fueling discussion of the nature of differences and the strategies for managing them. Though no one will see your answers to specific questions, we will distribute graphs of the resulting profiles to facilitate class discussion.

Reading(s):
Please read the following for class discussion –

Intuitor, Thinker, Feeler, Senser: Which One Are You Talking To? By Anne Field,
Harvard Management Communication Letter, July 2003.
Day of Session:
Assignment(s): None!
Post Session:
Assignment(s): None!
If interested - Additional online resources:
If curious about your “type”, the site Type Logic provides meaningful overviews: http://typelogic.com/
If you are interested in other Jung-based tests or in exploring any of the other numerous approaches for profiling different personalities, Similar Minds provides an excellent compilation: http://similarminds.com/personality_tests.html
. For example, there is a short but accurate test in which one chooses a preference between 24 word pairs; this is particularly helpful to gain insights on how one is perceived by others
( http://similarminds.com/jung_word_pair.html
) . When developing teams or employees, I find a tool like this helpful to open a dialogue acknowledging what might come easily to each person and what might require more deliberate effort.