Assessment 1: 16 Personalities (Based on Jung and Myers-Briggs models)
16 Personalities is a personality test that redefines the personality traits of Jung’s personality model and uses the acronym format of the Myers-Briggs personality model to describe the results of five personality aspects (Mind, Energy, Nature, Tactics, and Identity) and type groups (Roles and Strategies). The five personality aspects are as follows:
The type groups of Roles and Strategies each include four categories that work together. Roles determine goals, interests, and preferred activities, and Strategies display preferred ways of doing things and how goals are achieved. Within each of the four Roles lies the four strategies:
I received the results of an ESFJ-A personality, or as 16 Personalities calls it, “The Consul”. A breakdown of my results shows that I am 74% extroverted, 78% observant, 73% feeling, 68% judging, and 52% …show more content…
VARK originated in 1987 by a New Zealand teacher named Neil Fleming, when he noticed his students learned differently with different levels of teachers. He wanted to create a way to discover how preferences affected how information was taken in and how information was communicated …show more content…
Simply put, I use more than one style, or preference, to absorb and communicate information. For the Visual preference, I scored a 6, and for the Read-Write preference, I scored a 7. I was surprised by the results, as I have always considered myself as having a kinesthetic preference to learning. As a Section Leader in the injection molding plant, learning-by-doing was the best way to train employees. I was trained and have trained others, how to operate molding machines and how to measure and handle plastic parts using a more hands-on
16 Personalities is a personality test that redefines the personality traits of Jung’s personality model and uses the acronym format of the Myers-Briggs personality model to describe the results of five personality aspects (Mind, Energy, Nature, Tactics, and Identity) and type groups (Roles and Strategies). The five personality aspects are as follows:
The type groups of Roles and Strategies each include four categories that work together. Roles determine goals, interests, and preferred activities, and Strategies display preferred ways of doing things and how goals are achieved. Within each of the four Roles lies the four strategies:
I received the results of an ESFJ-A personality, or as 16 Personalities calls it, “The Consul”. A breakdown of my results shows that I am 74% extroverted, 78% observant, 73% feeling, 68% judging, and 52% …show more content…
VARK originated in 1987 by a New Zealand teacher named Neil Fleming, when he noticed his students learned differently with different levels of teachers. He wanted to create a way to discover how preferences affected how information was taken in and how information was communicated …show more content…
Simply put, I use more than one style, or preference, to absorb and communicate information. For the Visual preference, I scored a 6, and for the Read-Write preference, I scored a 7. I was surprised by the results, as I have always considered myself as having a kinesthetic preference to learning. As a Section Leader in the injection molding plant, learning-by-doing was the best way to train employees. I was trained and have trained others, how to operate molding machines and how to measure and handle plastic parts using a more hands-on