Personality types
There are many theories about personality types. One of these is called the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and it is a useful way of building team effectiveness.
The Myers-Briggs personality type was created by Katharine Cook Briggs and her daughter Isabel Briggs Myers in the 1940s. It is still a popular theory used today by many organisations. In fact, 89 per cent of the 100 largest public and privately held companies in the USA claim to use it.
It is based on four extreme personality types:
- introvert/extrovert
- sensing/intuition
- thinking/feeling
- judging/perceiving
There are 16 different personality types depending on where someone is positioned on each of these four extremes. The position is decided by responses to a set of questions.
There are many different versions of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator available online. Type in ‘Myers-Briggs Type Indicator’ in a search engine and there are lots of options. Which type are you?
