Personality Matters Blog
Sherrie Haynie, Senior Director of US Professional Services for The Myers-Briggs Company
How stress and personality type affect leader’s risk tolerance & decision-making
How stress and personality type affect leader’s risk tolerance & decision-making
Vanessa Bradford
Measuring the behaviors of successful, inclusive leaders with the FIRO-B tool
Did you know that interpersonal behaviors can be measured in an objective way? Through the FIRO-B® assessment, HR professionals and leadership consultants can check how well a person's behaviors cultivate inclusion and success in the workplace.
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Inclusion is a priority, but how do leaders actually become inclusive?
Research shows there’s a self-perception gap when leaders assess their inclusion efforts
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Will Gen Z usher in a new generation of work-related conflict?
Awareness of different approaches to conflict could help multi-generational workforces understand each other and work together better.
Melissa Summer
Inclusive Leadership
Why aren’t leaders as inclusive as they think? Listen to the latest podcast episode from The Myers-Briggs Company featuring Dr. Rachel Cubas-Wilkinson.
Melissa Summer
Finding a Career with Purpose
Career expert and coach Julie Gross shares her tips for finding a career with purpose in this episode of The Myers-Briggs Company Podcast.
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How to build a more effective hybrid workplace
Paying closer attention to employee needs is the way to make remote, in-office, and hybrid teams function better.
Melissa Summer
Connecting with the people you lead
Dr. Martin Boult shares his expertise on leadership and connection in this episode of The Myers-Briggs Company Podcast.
Melissa Summer
Psychology of Change
What is change management and why does it matter for organizations?
Melissa Summer
Leadership, Extraversion & Introversion
What should leaders be aware of about these well-known personality differences?
Melissa Summer
Conflict Management
How can conflict management save organizations money?
Melissa Summer
Using interpersonal needs to make the hybrid model work for teams
Is it possible to get the best of both worlds with hybrid work?
Melissa Summer, Global Content Marketing Manager, The Myers-Briggs Company
Leading while Black and Introverted
Jeri Bingham hosts the Hush Loudly podcast on WGN Radio in Chicago. Her podcast interviews a myriad of successful people who have preferences for Introversion about their experiences in their life and work. Recently, Jeri hosted a panel for the Chicago State Foundation titled “Leading While Black and Introverted” and The Myers-Briggs Company’s Dr. Rachel Cubas-Wilkinson was started by laying the foundation for understanding personality type and Introversion. “People with...
Rachel Cubas-Wilkinson, Senior Consultant, The Myers-Briggs Company
Use the platinum rule for better workplace relationships
You've probably heard of the golden rule? With personality insight, you now need the platinum rule...
Claire Bremner, Principal Consultant, The Myers-Briggs Company
Self Awareness, Leadership and Organizational Success
What can self-awareness in your company's leaders contribute to organizational success?
Claire Bremner, Principal Consultant, The Myers-Briggs Company
Missing this one thing makes team collaboration impossible
What's the key ingredient to team collaboration? This second piece on leadership will show you...
Nikhita Blackburn, Thought Leadership Lead Consultant, The Myers-Briggs Company
Are Leaders More Stressed Than Everyone Else?
Are those at the top strained more than everyone else?
Catherine Ellwood, Principle Consultant, The Myers-Briggs Company
Building trust through transparency
How openness and predictability make teams more effective...
Claire Bremner, Principal Consultant, The Myers-Briggs Company
Why is Self-awareness Important for Leadership
Every organization has leaders. But how self-aware are your leaders? Here's why you should care...
Claire Bremner, Principal Consultant, The Myers-Briggs Company
Top 10 Leadership Development Books
Every organization has leaders. But how self-aware are your leaders? Here's why you should care...
Melissa Summer
Leadership’s First Commandment from Harvard Business Review
What does Harvard Business Review say is the "first commandment of leadership"?
Shana Lebowitz, Business Insider
The "Freakishly Accurate" Leadership Assessment
"I took a personality test to assess my leadership potential and it was freakishly accurate..."
By Sherrie Haynie
How Association Leaders Can Use Assertiveness Gracefully
This article originally appeared on the Center for Association Leadership website. Assertiveness is both valued and lamented in contemporary business culture. Whether assertiveness is a vice or virtue, it can be used as a highly calculated tool for specific situations. For association executives, assertiveness can play a two-faced role. As an organizational attitude, it can be alienating to members, but the skill can also be invaluable for advocating on behalf of members and one’s industr...
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Confidence, Extraversion & Understanding – What Helps You The Most?
Written in collaboration with John Hackston, Head of Thought Leadership at OPP Politicians are known for their confidence, but sometimes this can get them into hot water (I’m sure that you can think of some recent examples). You can probably think of a time where you saw someone who seemed to use confidence to cover up a lack of ability. But confidence isn’t just important for politicians, as this article by Laura Barton points out. Women tend to be less confident in their abiliti...
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MBTI Step II Facets: Realistic–Imaginative
A colleague came into my office one day and asked me, “Why would someone send another person flowers?” I was a bit surprised by the question. She continued, “They seem like such a waste. I mean, they are really expensive and they are going to die.” I thought about it for a minute, not sure at first how to respond. I love to send and receive flowers, so I tried to explain that the cost and short life span of such a gift are not the point. Clearly not getting my message across very well, I deci...
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Leadership and the Intuition–Thinking (NT) Process Pair
People with NT preferences (INTJs, INTPs, ENTPs, ENTJs) typically take a “what else can we do” approach to leadership. They tend to consider new ways to address tasks and projects, and often have an innovative mind-set that is about changing things up to make a situation better. If NT informs your leadership style, you may want to consider how this approach is affecting members of your team. Some of them may appreciate your open approach to new ideas and possibilities, but others may find wha...
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Leadership and the Intuition–Feeling (NF) Process Pair
People with NF preferences (INFJs, INFPs, ENFPs, ENFJs) typically take a “let’s make a difference” approach to leadership. They consider how others can be positively affected over the long term instead of just in the present moment. In leading they tend to focus on big-picture, future-oriented ideas that can empower people to “be better.” If NF informs your leadership style, you may want to consider how this approach is affecting members of your team. Some of them may appreciate your support ...
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Leadership and the Sensing–Feeling (SF) Process Pair
People with SF preferences (ISFJs, ISFPs, ESFPs, ESFJs) typically take a “thoughtful helping of others” approach to leadership. They consider how the factual information they provide (who, what when, why, where) might help others in a here-and-now way. They tend to have a supportive and practical leadership style, offering information that can be useful today instead of someday. If SF informs your leadership style, you may want to consider how this approach is affecting members of your team. ...
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Leadership and the Sensing–Thinking (ST) Process Pair
People with ST preferences (ISTJs, ISTPs, ESTPs, ESTJs) typically take a “let’s get it done” approach to leadership. They want to tackle the task at hand and prefer to jump right in to get things right the first time. In fact, they are likely to be annoyed by discussion of matters that don’t directly relate to the task. They prefer to move on from anything they consider superfluous and get to what “needs” to get done. If ST informs your leadership style, you may want to consider how this appr...
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Myers-Briggs Personality Types and Leadership
A couple of years back I wrote a blog series on type and leadership, and I’m now following that up with a few additional ideas focusing on the MBTI® process pairs: ST, SF, NF, and NT. While the T–F and J–P preference pairs are the ones most often explored in relation to leadership (maybe I’ll write about the TJ, TP, FJ, and FP pairs next), I still like looking at the middle letters of people’s four-letter type the most. As you consider the content of this next ...
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Combining Coaching Tools: Myers-Briggs & FIRO Assessments
Originally written by Betsy Kendall and Alice King at OPP Often considered a winning combination in coaching, what is it specifically about the FIRO and MBTI assessments that adds depth and complexity to coaching? The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator looks at four aspects of our personality that combine together dynamically to capture the fundamental elements of who we are and how we are motivated. This in itself is a powerful coaching tool as it indicates our preferred ways of taking in information,...
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The Importance of Good Judgement - Values, Leaders & the MBTI Assessment
So many things in life rely on good judgment. We often find ourselves in situations where there are no right or wrong answers. Our final decision comes down to a matter of judgment. There are lots of examples of good judgement (and bad judgement) in current affairs right now, and it’s more complicated than just asking if someone has broken a law. We need confidence that the people we choose to represent us are going to exhibit good judgment across a whole range of important decisions. So...
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Leadership Development Initiatives 75% More Effective with the FIRO-B Instrument
ALD Corporate Development is a full-service corporate development and management consulting firm that offers three tracks: executive coaching, small business consulting for growth and profit through results-driven actions, and executive leadership training and seminars. And in today's fast-paced business environment, HR and LD managers are often overwhelmed and stretched too thin but still need to continually assess and tweak how leaders are performing and how that affects the company...
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7 Leadership Traits of Successful CIO's
This article originally appeared in CIO Magazine. To read the article in its original format, click here. The California Psychology Inventory (CPI), developed by CPP -- the exclusive publisher of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator assessment -- is an assessment tool that help leaders gain more insight into and improve their performance. Ultimately, the CPI helps identify your leadership strengths and weaknesses, what motivates you and can help you understand your personal "thinking style." Th...
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MBTI® Users Conference—Creating a Culture of Clarity / Some Clinical Psychology Criticism
Patrick Kerwin then addressed a criticism about the MBTI® assessment he’s heard that “clinical psychologists don’t believe in the MBTI® tool.” I didn’t get training on the MBTI tool in my clinical program. Clinical psychologists are typically trained to administer “tests” that address psychological problems. As Patrick stated, the argument that clinicians don’t use the MBTI tool is like saying “it’s hard to find an engineer who uses a plunger.” The MBTI tool is not a test, and it doesn’t ident...
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Know Your Myers-Briggs Type? Here's How It Could Affect Your Money Decisions
This article was written by Moira Lawler and originally published on Forbes.com. To read the article on the original website, click here. There are few of us who can resist a good personality test, whether it’s a silly one that pinpoints your spirit animal or a serious one that helps you find your true calling. That’s because getting more insight into ourselves is, at the very least, fun, and at best, seriously eye-opening. Perhaps the most well-known of the eye-opening variety is...
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Allianz Global Improves Leadership, Teamwork with the FIRO-B Tool
Allianz Global Investors is a leading active investment manager with a strong parent company and a culture of risk management. With 25 offices in the US, Europe and Asia Pacific, they provide global investment and research capabilities with consultative local delivery. Allianz Global has a rich history, started over 125 years ago they now serve over 82 million clients in 70 countries. With over 540 investment professionals in the high-stress position of managing billions in assets, Allianz was l...
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New—MBTI® Workbook
I have facilitated many individual and group MBTI® feedback sessions during the 28 years I’ve used this amazing tool. I have also trained many people on how to deliver that feedback, and at times I’ve found that people feel a bit overwhelmed by all the steps involved. That’s why I like the new Exploring Your Myers-Briggs® Type Workbook. It gives you the exact steps you need to walk someone, whether individually or in a group, through MBTI feedback. In the workbook, yo...
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Enhance Your MBTI® Step II™ Training + Free Exercises
To enhance leadership potential and help teams meet the demands of real-world challenges, it is essential that your people understand how their facet results can influence their perceptions, problem solving, and decision making. Here are two exercises that use MBTI® Step II™ results to achieve leadership development goals and build stronger teams: “Improving Leadership Performance Using MBTI® Step II™ Results” “Team Exercise: Engaging S–N Fac...
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Leading culture from your strengths
By Pam Fox Rollin, MBA, MBTI® Master Practitioner “Please send me an email outlining what I should do to be a good leader of culture,” requested an introverted C-level executive as we launched a major culture initiative across his organization. What would you write? Would you give him a list of generic “good leader” behaviors? Would you describe what you’d do? Or, maybe, would you tell him what you’ve seen your favorite leaders do? Let’s look at how ...
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American Red Cross Uses CPI 260 Tool to Identify Leadership Potential
Every two seconds someone in the U.S. needs blood, which means approximately 36,000 units of red blood cells are needed every day in the U.S. People need blood for a variety of reasons, from chemotherapy treatment to natural disasters, and many often need more than a few pints. A single car accident victim can require as many of 100 pints of blood. In addition, blood can’t be manufactured – it can only come from generous donors. And since 1940, under the leadership of Dr. Charles Dre...
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USC Marshall School of Business Finds Students 75% More Engaged with Strong Interest Inventory
With an emphasis on entrepreneurship and innovation, collaborative research and social responsibility, the USC Marshall School of Business is ideally positioned to address the challenges of a rapidly changing business environment. Their guiding philosophy – success demands an understanding of the inner workings of the global marketplace –has established USC Marshall as a leader among the nation’s premier business schools. USC Marshall provides powerful global experiences across...
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High Growth IT Services Company Utilizes CPI 260 to Achieve Talent Management Objectives
Iris Software has emerged as one of the fastest growing small business IT companies in its industry today, with revenues clocking a compounded annual growth rate of more than 35% in the past three years. Headquartered in Edison, New Jersey, Iris also has offices in New York City and Stamford, Connecticut; and an offshore development center in New Delhi, India, all of which lend to their round-the-clock support abilities and global, diverse employee base. In the areas of high qual...
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Type at the Family Conference Table: Extraverted Thinking
Written by Mathew David Pauley, JD, MA, MDR In my previous post I discussed how I’ve found type to be a useful tool for working with individuals who need to make difficult decisions or who are in conflict. When discussing matters such as whether to continue aggressive interventions or consider more palliative approaches, or when disclosing bad news (e.g., a new life-limiting diagnosis, an unsuccessful surgery, a medical error or medication mistake, or an unanticipated injury or death)...
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How to Decide on Management Styles for Your Company
This article was written by Chuck Cohn. It was originally published in Forbes Magazine on April 6, 2016. To read the article on the original site, click here. A leader’s management style is sometimes thought of as inherent, but in truth, it is partially dictated by circumstance. There is no one approach that works for all people and all tasks in all situations. The most successful managers are flexible and use a wide range of styles appropriately. But what does “appropriately&...
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Farming, Leadership Development and the TKI Tool
“Farming is a profession of hope.” ― Brian Brett [Author] In 1919, a small group of farmers from 30 states gathered in Chicago. Their goal – speaking for themselves and representing the needs and issues of fellow farmers through their own national organization. Not long after that initial meeting, the American Farm Bureau Federation became the voice of agriculture at the national level. “The purpose of Farm Bureau is to make the business of farming more profitable, ...
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3 Simple, Brilliant Ways Introverts Can Conquer Public Speaking
This article was written by Damon Brown and published in Inc. Magazine. To read the article in its original format, click here. I am an introvert, but I am also a TED Speaker. I prefer solitude, but I love connecting with other people. It's less a contradiction and more the complex nature of introverted leaders. I can count Zuckerberg, Dorsey, and Ev as contemporaries, so it's good company. That said, leadership often requires commanding an audience, whether it be at a sold out conference...
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JDSU Uses Personality Typology during Management Empowerment Camps
By Michael Segovia, Lead MBTI Certification Trainer. This case study originally appears in Industrial and Commercial Training Magazine here. Abstract Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to gauge the success of optical product maker JDSU’s effort to engage Human Resources as a strategic partner in building an international company culture using training in the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator to bring diverse teams together with a common management language for...
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Is It Over Already?
It has been a great three days (one day of pre-conference and two days in conference). The final conference session was a keynote by Wayne Cascio, Reynolds Distinguished Chair in Global Leadership, titled “Workplace Challenges: What’s Next?” This was a perfect end to the conference, and it offered great insight on what is coming down the pike. Topics addressed included: Extreme longevity—people are living longer; by 2025 the number of people over the age of 60 will incre...