To develop a robust personal development and interpersonal skills development plan one must make an effort to understand oneself better. The MBTI tool helps us better understand our personality preferences, identify gaps and opportunities to enhance various aspects of personality and become better equipped to handle adversity.

1. VECTORP A R T N E R S
CONSULTING | CAPACITY BUILDING
Your partners in success

2. The best way to predict
the future is to create it.
~Peter Drucker

3. Self assessment: personality
• Strengths? Why you think you will succeed as an
entrepreneur?
• Weakness? Why you think you will fail as an
entrepreneur?
Exercise
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4. Tool: Personality Type
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) system: Preference NOT Ability

5. Exercise
#4
Find your personality type
• Know yourself better
• Know others better
• Reallocate energy and focus – build efficiencies
• Build tolerance
• Enhance team building

6. How You Interact?
Introverts (I)
• Prefers thinking
• Communicate by writing
• Private
• Work with ideas and thoughts
Extroverts (E)
• Prefers action
• Communicate by speaking
• Sociable
• Work with people

7. How You Absorb Information?
Sensing (S)
• Practical
• Uses all 5 senses
• Step-by-step
• Facts
• Uses established skills
Intuition (N)
• Theoretical
• Sixth sense
• Jumps around
• Insights
• Learns new skills

8. How You Make Decisions?
Thinking (T)
• Head
• Logical
• Reason
• Firm but fair
Feeling (F)
• Heart
• Values
• Empathy
• Compassion

9. How You Organise?
Judging (J)
• Planned
• Regulate
• Set goals
• Organised
Perceiving (P)
• Spontaneous
• Flow
• Open
• Flexible

10. Identifying Matches
IntrovertsExtroverts

11. Typical Entrepreneurs
ENTP ESTJ
ENTJ INTJ
ISTJ
Entrepreneur
Curious
Creative
Responsible
Decisive