Isabel Briggs Myers

ranks twenty-four strengths according to how well you use them. The second test that I took was the Myers-Briggs personality test. This test deciphers your personality, and categorizes you under one of sixteen personality types. According to the VIA survey results that I received, kindness, humor, social intelligence, judgment, and leadership are my top five strengths. When I took the Myers-Briggs test I was identified as an ISFP. This personality group includes individuals that are…

This paper proposes a descriptive model of good leadership behaviors & traits based on the outcome of taking Thoroughgood’s destructive leadership behavior scale and personal results from the Jung Typology Test on personalities. In addition, it briefly describes the characteristics of destructive leadership behaviors and how it can become contagious. More importantly, it highlights the link between a successful leader, and the significance of how well their followers follows. The dynamic…

Introduction The Meyers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a valuable tool to help understand your personality type so that you can develop better strategies to understand how you interact with the world around you. To develop leadership skills it is better to understand where you align on the MBTI grid to strengthen the skills you currently possess and to improve the ones that will help you succeed. Ethical decisions may not be an everyday occurrence in business, but to understand the foundation…

Admittedly that indeed sounds like me, but it was not until I did further research that I was finally sold on that the Myer-Briggs Type Indicator is accurate. The first letter represents where I get my primary source of energy. My primary source of energy is E, which stands for extroversion. Minh Tan wrote a profile of ENFJ which went through every aspect of the personality traits to career choices. Tan referred to the ENFJs as the Teachers/Givers and wrote, “As an ENFJ, you’re primary mode of…

The Myers-Briggs personality test is used to assist us in discovering how people think and interact, factors which ultimately contribute to an individual’s overall personality. Over the years I have taken numerous personality test and have consistently described me as having an ISTJ personality type. In this paper I will discuss the results and validity of my personality type as scored by the Jung Typology Test. I will also discuss what I have learned from these test as well as how my…

I am the life of the party. When they meet me on a depressed day (I like to call them low days) they think of me as boring or easily agitated. It is hard to keep friends with this situation and I have yet to get used to it. I looked over the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and chose the letters that I…

The Myers Briggs Personality Test is a test that judges your personality, and gives you a four lettered code out of sixteen combinations. The code then, gives you a sense of how you are and may think or act psychologically. These categories are separated into introvert, or extrovert; sensing, or intuition; thinking, or feeling; judging, or perceiving. You would receive one of the types for the test and in result, you have an overview of your personality. This can be used to predict many things…

The Myers-Briggs Personality Test has identified that I have the Extrovert, Sensor, Thinker and Judger (ESTJ) personality type (Jung, n.d.). The different elements of the personality type indicate how I prefer to receive energy, gather information, make decisions and orient my life (Kroeger, O., Thuesen J. M., Rutledge, H., 2002). By understanding how each of the sections of my personality work individually and together as a whole I will be able to become a more open minded and productive…

After completing the Jung Typology Test, I found out that my personality type is ENFP which stands for extravert, intuitive, feeling, and perceiving. I am actually very happy with my personality results because they were very accurate with how I think I am as a person. My results show that I am an extravert and I agree because I definitely feel energized when I am with people because I can connect with others and share my interests and feelings with them. I am happiest when I can spend time with…

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…