MBTI Assessment Options

Posted on June 26, 2022 by OPTIM Dev

CPP offers two forms of the MBTI assessment- the Form M (Step 1) assessment and the From Q (Step 2) assessment:

  • MBTI Form M (Step 1)- includes 93 items and identifies individuals’ personality type (made up of four basic preferences, generating a four-letter type code) and provides a common language around how they interact with the world and each other
  • MBTI Form Q (Step 2)- includes 144 items ( the 93 items in Form M, plus 51 other items) to drill down to a finer level of detail to explore personal variation within each type; it provides individuals’ MBTI four-letter type code plus results on 20 facets of that type (five for each preference) and is the second step in personal and professional development using the MBTI assessment

An additional option is MBTI® Complete, which combines the MBTI Step 1 assessment with a basic interpretation developed by type expert Allen Hammer, PhD. Endorsed by the Myers and Briggs Foundation, this one-stop online offering boosts training effectiveness by automating participants’ introduction to personality type.

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How is MBTI Used in Organizations?

Posted on June 26, 2022 by OPTIM Dev

  • Leadership development– understanding leaders’ personality type and the type of those they are leading to help them manage better, lead more effectively, give more meaningful feedback, inspire and influence effectively, and improve individual and team performance
  • Interpersonal skills development– promoting individual self-awareness and increasing effectiveness across myriad applications
  • Conflict Management– improving skills in identifying sources of conflict and intervening early to prevent under performance, disruption, and disengagement
  • Executive and line manager coaching– helping individuals stretch to accomplish ambitious personal and organizational goals and retaining top talent
  • Stress management– building resilience, increasing organizational focus and productivity, and offering strategies and action steps for identifying stress-related triggers
  • Career transition and planning– advising individuals on career choice, development, and the impact of organizational change to ensure that top talent is retained in alternative roles rather than lost to other organizations

 

 

Many Companies, big and small, have used the MBTI instrument to achieve results. Some of the more high-profile examples include JetBlue, Sony, Kaiser Permanente, Southwest Airlines, Ernst & Young, Hallmark, and Health New England. You can access these case studies and others at www.cpp.com >Knowledge Center > Case Studies.

 

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Why is MBTI® So Popular?

Posted on June 26, 2022 by OPTIM Dev

Myers Briggs Type Indicator Career Personality Test on Personal Strengths

The MBTI tool’s positive approach to understanding differences between people has made it the world’s most popular personality assessment. It’s deceptively simple but is based on sound and enduring psychological theory that can transform the performance of individuals, groups, and entire organizations.

Individuals who take the MBTI assessment often experience “aha!” moments as they come to better understand themselves and how they approach work and day-today life. Organizations make it the personality assessment of choice across their training and development programs because it provides a common language for appreciating interpersonal differences.

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Using the MBTI® Assessment

Posted on April 30, 2022 by OPTIM Dev

Myers Briggs Type Indicator Career Personality Test on Personal Strengths

In developing the Myers-Briggs assessment, Isabel Briggs Myers and her mother, Katharine Briggs, aimed to make Carl Jung’s theory of psychological type understandable and useful in people’s everyday lives.

The essence of the theory is that much seemingly random variation in behavior is actually quite orderly and consistent, being due to basic differences in the ways individuals are oriented toward the external world, take in information, and draw conclusions about what they perceive.

The MBTI® assessment help people identify their preferences on four dichotomies:

  • Extraversion or Introversion (focusing attention and getting energy)
  • Sensing or Intuition (taking in information)
  • Thinking or Feeling (making decisions)
  • Judging or Perceiving (dealing with the external world)

The various combinations of those four preferences result in 16 distinct personality types – all of which bring an equally valuable perspective and equally important contributions to human interactions.  But a type is more than just the sum of four preferences.  People’s four-letter MBTI® type code is a simple way of signifying the interaction of the preferences.  Learning about this interaction, known as type dynamics, is an important part of understanding and make the best use of MBTI® results.

Used with permission from Consulting Psychologist Press.

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Career Test ReSources Boost Awareness & Accelerate Careers

Posted on October 27, 2021 by OPTIM Dev

Career Test Resource Products:
Boost Awareness and Accelerate Careers

Boost your self-knowledge and understanding, and accelerate your progress towards achieving your career goals. TestEts offers them in variety of formats because everyone learns and absorbs information differently (as THAB career ability test shows).  We hope that by doing this you will experience both satisfaction in and success from your career tests.

Career Test Resource Products: Benefits

MBTI Resources Information Books on Careers College Leadership Stress Communications Team Building Mission Statements Abilities College and Careers SII MBTI THAB FIRO Career Test Report Clarification Workbooks

Career Resource Information Workbooks and Books featuring Strong Interest Inventory, Highlands Ability, Myers Briggs Type tests assessments workbooks including Career Anchors The Path Highlands Right Career and College

(1) Enable you extrapolate the most information from your test reports;

(2) Provide you with more and detailed information on specific career test topics;

(3) Reduce the number and times you need to take career tests;

(4) Offer you unique specialized career tests in book form;

(5) Supplement Myers Briggs Type Indicator MBTI career tests;

(6) Enhance your learning both in terms of absorption and understanding of career test material.

Career Test Resources Available: Workbooks

Most workbooks provide career test information and career test exercises to clarify the meanings and labels used by each of the main career tests offered by TestEts.  Some provide a step by step approach through the entire career factors involved in arriving at an informed and satisfying career decision and career goal.  TestEts Clarifying Workbooks include:

THAB Right Work – Work Right Workbook: Comparative information on all of the main ability test modules and exercises for key aspects of the career test report. 22 pages for 40 page career test report

Myers Briggs Type workbook to clarify MBTI career test results

Myers Briggs Type workbook clarify MBTI career test results with career test explanations and exercises

MBTI Detailed and Verifying Workbook: Explanations of benefits and limitations, 80/20 rule, each of the scales in unique ways and combinations of scales in pictorial format with steps to clarifying and verifying your MBTI type (MBTI 4-letter type code). 22 pages for various MBTI test reports

 

SII Test Clarifying Workbook: Explanation of limitations and of each of the 6 career interest based personalities in 10 pictorial charts. 15 pages for various SII career test reports.

FIRO-B BUSINESS Clarifying Workbook: Explanation of limitations, cautions and usefulness of career test report for career development, leadership development, team building and need fulfillment. 9 pages

Assessment TEST Analysis Worksheet: Chart exercises to consolidate all career test report information.  Appropriate for MBTI Myers Briggs Type Indicator, SII Strong Interest Inventory and THAB Highlands Ability Battery career tests. 4 pages.

Career Test Resources Available:
Myers Briggs Type Indicator® Resources and MBTI Books

An article was written in September 2011 listing all of the MBTI Type Resource Books with a concise explanation of content material about Myers Briggs types.  You can click on  “MBTI  Type Resource Books” to be taken to the article where you can read brief descriptions about the contents of each of the MBTI Type booklets. Or you can link on each MBTI Type Book title listed below to obtain a detailed explanation, inside book cover viewing and purchase information of each of these MBTI Type books.

Myers Briggs Type Indicator Career Personality Test - MBTI Introduction_to_Type_and_Careers

Myers Briggs Type Indicator Career Personality Test – MBTI Introduction_to_Type_and_Careers

Functions (Strengths & Weaknesses), Dynamics of Development (of Strengths & Weaknesses),

Conflict Mitigation, Change Management, Communications, EQ: Emotional Intelligence,

Careers and Job Search Strategies, In the Grip Stress Management, Performance in Organizations

Teams and Team Building, Project Management, Leadership, Decision-Making, Selling, Innovation,

College and Careers,  Learning Styles and Learning

Career Test Resources Available: Other Books

The PATH Field Guide: Create Your Personal Mission and Vision Statements

The Path Workbook: Finding Your Mission Purpose and Vision and Writing Mission Statement and Vision Statement

The Path Workbook: Finding Your Mission Purpose and Vision

This technology is designed to help you develop a mission statement, a vision statement, and an action plan that is in perfect alignment with your gifts and talents. When you’ve completed this process you will have a clearly defined territory of responsibility, and a sword you can use to help cut away unproductive entanglements. 65 pages

Highlands: The Right Choice Matching your Abilities with College and Careers

Students need help in reaching their decisions, and conventional matching tools are inadequate to accomplish this process resulting in college course drops, degree or major changes, and college drop-outs. For THAB career tests only. 103 pages

CAREER ANCHORS Workbook: Capture your Values throughout Your Life For Career Development and Decision Making

Gives you information about career development, to provide you with a process that will enable you to assess more fully your career anchor, and to provide you with a process for analyzing your current job situation as well as possible future career options. 67 pages

Joining the Entrepreneurial Elite: Four Styles to Business Success

Entreprenuer Test and Workbook to Identify Entrepreneur Style and How that Entrepreneur can Be Successful

Entreprenuer Test and Workbook to Identify Entrepreneur Style and Entrepreneur Success

By identifying four distinct entrepreneurial styles — the Administrator, the Tactician, the Strategist, and the Idealist — this book shows readers how to identify their own style and use it as the cornerstone for building a successful business or product line. 155 pages

 

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