Briggs Initiative

This paper identifies my personal results garnered from the Meyers-Briggs Personality test. The Myers-Briggs test theoretically illustrates an individual’s psychological behavioral traits based upon a series of questions. I am an Introvert, Intuitive, Thinker and Judger (INTJ). This paper will breakdown each behavioral trait, weaknesses, strengths, how they work together, and how it is best applied in the work force to achieve maximum results. Additionally I will share a personal testimony as to…

Nations are not the only entities capable of providing aid, and much of the individual work done in foreign countries comes from the private sector of society. Military aid will almost always require a government presence, but smaller expeditions, such as volunteers sent to teach, or distribute medicine, or provide service, act independently from the government. These organizations often provide a large amount of disaster relief as well, collecting and distributing donations of food, clean water…

My confirmed Myers-Briggs profile is ENTP or Extroversion, Intuition, Thinking, and Perception. The website, 16 personalities, refers to this profile type as "The Debater" (16 Personalities, n.d.). This means that in business and in school I am outwardly focused on people, places and things or extroverted (Hirsh, 1991). The intuitive preference of my profile means I tend to take in information from memory and associations versus my five senses (Hirsh, 1991). I typically make decisions based on…

Through research and my own knowledge, I am well aware that India is pushing towards more Open Data initiatives. There have been several conferences and platforms that have been developed to support these objectives. Despite this, however, government agencies are not all on board and lack the understanding as to why they need to open up data about their activities…

preferences." -- Isabel Briggs Myers. One of the best quotes given to explain this notorious test indicator. MBTI as it’s also referred to as well, it’s more or rather acronym as one must say. This indicator stands for the principles of a basic personality test to see which and what categories one might fall in when thinking about applying for college, jobs, and just trying to find out who they might be. Myers-Briggs was constructed by Katharine Cook Briggs and her daughter Isabel Briggs Myers,…

questionnaire designed to make Jung’s theory of psychological types more accessible, understandable and useful in everyday life (Briggs et al., 1998). The MBTI helps identify and explain differences between normal healthy people, which can be the source of much misunderstanding, by identifying their dominant type or preference. The mother and daughter team, Myers and Briggs, published the first MBTI edition in (1962) and over the next four decades it has been heavily investigated and researched…

The Meyers Briggs Personality test is in-depth introspective psychological questionnaire designed to understand personality types and how people perceive the world and make decisions. There are sixteen (16) personality types and four (4) temperaments. Many use the Myers Briggs Personality test to as a way of understanding themselves and their commonalities and differences with other people especially in the work place. They Meyers-Briggs Personality Test described my personality as Extraverted…

As an overview of the MBTI category, I scored as an ESFJ; my exact percentage is as follows: Extravert (6%) Sensing (1%) Feeling (50%) Judging (22%). However, because I scored a 1% on sensing, I can also be considered ENFJ. Being an ESFJ means that I enjoy being in charge, I see problems clearly and delegate easily, I work hard and know how to have fun. ESFJ’s are easily affected by harsh words and have a hard time keeping it bottled up inside. As caretakers, ESFJ’s believe there is a lot…

Based on my career results and research, I have chosen my profession as marketing management. At first I was always doubtful about going into marketing because I thought that it was all about utilizing your creative side, and I do not feel as though I am a creative person. However, after researching I found that it has a lot more to do with math than I could have ever imagined and a lot to do with human behavior, which are both interesting topics to me. Marketing managers generally work to…

In any organization collaboration amongst individuals is essential to succeeding. “Managers need to develop their interpersonal, or people, skills if they are going to be effective in their jobs” (Robbins, 2009, p. 34). This paper discusses my own personality type (ESFP), and how such personality plays a role in my own military organization, through various experiences. Finally, this paper will attempt to describe, both particularly and generally, what I learned from my personality type about…