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Learning to Work with Other Types

This will require some literature research. The homework should be a minimum of 3 full pages double spaced per APA (No extra spacing to pad the paper).

The homework assignment is to first learn what your own personality type is using the Myers Briggs model. You may already know your type from an earlier encounter with this assessment. If not, go to https://psychcentral.com/quizzes/personality/start.php and take the assessment. This site is not the actual Myers Briggs but it has proven to have reliability in determining personality types. It is free! Google the Myers Briggs and read about your type.

This assessment has been used extensively in teambuilding at all levels of the corporate world. It helps to know your own type but it is also very important to understand differences in types and how to work with different types. Learning to work with other types is the purpose of this exercise.

Once you know your type, find a person that you work with who is willing to partner with you in taking the Myers Briggs assessment and then sharing his/her type with you. If you are not employed or do not want to do this at work, you could look for a partner in a church or social group. One more option is to partner with your significant other (boy or girl friend or spouse) which is also a useful option.

Before you sit down to talk about differences in style do some research and background reading on the MBTI. There is no one type that is better than another. Often opposite ends of a dimension have some difficulty appreciating each other's strengths. A good example is extraverts versus introverts. Extraverts can see introverts as aloof or distant and hard to get to know. Introverts can view extraverts as dominating, always talking, and looking for social activities. Another very important difference is between the S (sensing) and I (intuition). The S's love details and focus on the steps in the process. The I's want to see the big picture and can skip steps when working toward an outcome. The P's and J's also struggle in that the P's like flexibility, seeing things from different perspectives, trying new approaches, not making decisions until the last minute. J's plan head and once a decision is made hate to revisit it. They like order in their life. I am an INFJ although earlier in my career I would test as an INTJ partly because my job pulled me in that direction.

When you understand the dimensions in the Myers Briggs, sit down with your partner and see where you have differences. Even a difference in one dimension is sufficient. Then brainstorm on ways you can bridge the differences or tap into the strengths of your opposite. You could also look at your similarities in dimension and discuss if that lack of balance or diversity can cause less than optimal outcomes.

Write a paper on your experience. Start with your background research on the MBTI and summarize what you learned. Then describe your personality type and to what extent you feel it fits you. Then explain why you chose your partner and what personality type he or she tested as. Use some of the description from your reading on the Myers Briggs to describe how you and your partner would approach life differently. Last summarize your discussion on how to work together and build on each other's strengths.

The results

My personality type.

You are I-S-T-J

Introverted - Sensing - Thinking - Judging (ISTJ)

Extroversion 44-Introversion

Intuitive 43 Sensing

Thinking 71 Feeling

Perceiving 37 Judging

ISTJ - The Duty Fulfiller: Serious and quiet, interested in security and peaceful living. Extremely thorough, responsible, and dependable. Well-developed powers of concentration. Usually interested in supporting and promoting traditions and establishments. Well-organized and hardworking, they work steadily towards identified goals. They can usually accomplish any task once they have set their mind to it.

My spouse personality type:

Extroversion 48 Introversion

Intuitive 35 Sensing

Thinking 54 Feeling

Perceiving52 Judging