The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) assessment was created by Katharine Cook Briggs and her daughter Isabel Briggs Myers in the mid-20th century to make Carl Jung's work on psychological types more accessible. It aims to provide insight into how people perceive the world and make decisions. The first published version was released in 1962 after over 20 years of development. The MBTI categorizes personalities into 16 types based on preferences for extraversion/introversion, sensing/intuition, thinking/feeling, and judging/perceiving. While generally reliable, it only measures preferences and not abilities. The MBTI is commonly used to improve communication, teamwork and professional development when not in

1. Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
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2. Who created the MBTI assessment?
 It began with Katharine Cook Briggs and her daughter, Isabel Briggs
Myers, in the United States in the early mid-20th century.
 Briggs was inspired to research personality type theory when she met
Isabel’s future husband, Clarence Myers.
 She noticed he had a different way of seeing the world. This intrigued
her enough to start a literature review to understand different
temperaments.

3. What is the MBTI ?
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a self-help assessment test which
helps people gain insights about how they work and learn. It is a framework for
relationship-building, developing positivism, and achieving excellence.
 Carl G Jung published Psychological Types in 1921.
 Briggs read the English translation (1923) and saw similarities between their
ideas. However, Jung’s theories of personal difference were much more
developed.
 Briggs and Myers thought Jung’s work was so useful that they wanted to
make his ideas accessible to a wider audience.

4. When was the MBTI assessment first
published?
 World War II was a huge influence on the project’s development.
Myers believed that if people understood each other better, they’d
work together better and there’d be less conflict. The post-war world
could be a better place.
 She was determined to find a way to give people access to their
psychological type. This led to the idea of a type indicator, and Myers
dedicated the rest of her life to its development.
 She spent the next 20 years developing questions and validating the
instrument and the theory. The MBTI instrument was first published in
1962.

5. 16 Personality Types as per the MBTI
Personality Type Meaning
ISTJ - The Inspector The Inspector (Introverted, Sensing, Thinking, Judging)
ISTP - The Crafter The Crafter (Introverted, Sensing, Thinking, Perceiving)
ISFJ - The Protector The Protector (Introverted, Sensing, Feeling, Judging)
ISFP - The Artist The Artist (Introverted, Sensing, Feeling, Perceiving)
INFJ - The Advocate The Advocate (Introverted, Intuitive, Feeling, Judging)
INFP - The Mediator The Mediator (Introverted, Intuitive, Feeling, Perceiving)
INTJ - The Architect The Architect (Introverted, Intuitive, Thinking, Judging)
INTP - The Thinker The Thinker (Introverted, Intuitive, Thinking, Perceiving)
ESTP - The Persuader The Persuader (Extraverted, Sensing, Thinking,
Perceiving)
ESTJ - The Director The Director (Extraverted, Sensing, Thinking, Judging)
ESFP - The Performer The Performer (Extraverted, Sensing, Feeling, Perceiving)

6. Personality Types Cont’d
Personality Type Meaning
ESFJ - The Caregiver The Caregiver (Extroverted, Sensing, Feeling, Judging)
ENFP - The Champion The Champion (Extraverted, Intuitive, Feeling, Perceiving)
ENFJ - The Giver The Giver (Extraverted, Intuitive, Feeling, Judging)
ENTP - The Debater The Debater (Extroverted, Intuitive, Thinking, Perceiving)
ENTJ - The Commander The Commander (Extraverted, Intuitive, Thinking, Judging)

7. • Influence Behaviours
There are over 100 aspects of personality, MBTI measures only 16. These all influence
how we behave.

8. The MBTI instrument indicates preferences on four pairs of opposites, called dichotomies:
 Extroversion E vs. I introversion
 Judging J vs. I Intuition
 Thinking T vs. F Feeling
 Judging J vs. P Perceiving

9. Understanding MBTI
Knowing that these are what the MBTI seeks to do, what could be the business case
for taking and learning about the MBTI?
 Improved communication
 Less rework of tasks (money saved)
 Improved employee morale
 Mutually beneficial decisions
 Effective working together of teams (more gets accomplished)
 Individual growth (retention)

10. The MBTI is :
 A Self report instrument
 Non-judgemental
 An indicator of preferences
 A way to sort, not to be measured
 Well researched
 Rich in theory
 Professionally interpreted

11. Unethical Use of MBTI
 Hiring
 Selecting
 Promoting
 Rewarding

12. Is the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator reliable?
 According to the Myers & Briggs Foundation, It should be recognized
that the MBTI measures favorites, not the actual person.
 Every person is unique in their own way. Studies show on a retest,
people generally scored the same three or four preferences 75% to
90% of the time (“Reliability”).
 When a person does change type on a retest, it is generally a clash
where their preference for one or the other is in between-- meaning
40% to 55%.

13. Your Personality maybe:
1. You may be more comfortable dealing with people, things, ideas, and information
2. You may be more comfortable dealing with facts, reality, possibilities, and potential
3. You may be more comfortable dealing with logic, truth, values and relationship
4. A well-managed life i.e. judgement or going with the flow, perception

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15. Bibliography
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