MBTI

Why Organisations use the MBTI

The MBTI® Instrument is the most widely used instrument in the world for understanding normal personality differences. Because it explains basic patterns in human functioning, the MBTI® Instrument is used for a wide variety of purposes including the following:

o Self-understanding and developments
o Career development and exploration
o Organisation development
o Team building
o Management and leadership training
o Problem solving
o Relationship counselling
o Education and curriculum development
o Academic counselling
o Diversity and multicultural training

MBTI® - What does it look at?

The MBTI® is a self-report questionnaire designed to make Jung's theory of psychological types understandable and useful in everyday life. MBTI® Instrument results identify valuable differences between normal, healthy people, differences that can be the source of much misunderstanding and miscommunication. Over 2,000,000 people per year take the MBTI®.

 The MBTI® questionnaire describes an individual's personality preferences. It represents these in four dimensions: 

Extraversion

Introversion

Prefers to draw energy from the outer world of activity, people and things.

Prefers to draw energy from the inner world of reflections, feelings and ideas.

Sensing

iNtuition

Prefers to focus on information gained from the five senses and on practical applications.

Prefers to focus on patterns, connections and possible meanings.

Thinking

Feeling

Prefers to base decisions on logic and objective analysis of cause and effect

Prefers to base decisions on a valuing process, considering what is important to people.

Judging

Perceiving

Likes a planned, organised approach to life, and prefers to have things decided.

Likes a flexible, spontaneous approach and prefers to keep options open.