Sejatinya, tes MBTI adalah sebuah eksperimen yang digunakan untuk mengidentifikasi kepribadian, potensi, dan preferensi seseorang. Tidak ada kepribadian yang dinilai lebih baik atau terbaik dibandingkan kepribadian lainnya

1. Understanding Me,
Understanding You
KATHY J. LANGSTON, PHD
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA
#1 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS PROGRAM…AGAIN!!

2. Seamus Heaney, Irish Poet
1995 Nobel Prize Winner
“I have begun to think of life
as a series of ripples
widening out from an
original center.”

3. Executive Presence: Self Awareness
Other
Cultures
Others’
Traits
Personalit
y Traits
Self

4. Audience, Purpose, Goals
 Audience: Traditional college students
 Purpose:
 To understand
 To analyze
 To apply
 To become aware
 Goal: To develop an executive presence by developing self-
awareness for communication
ME

5. Conflict in Workplace
Primary cause of conflict in workplace?
Personalities
And
Values
ME and
YOU

6. 16personalities.com
Here first

7. Understanding Myers-Briggs Types
Analysts:
Intellect
Inventive
Reorganize lines
Diplomats:
Emotion
Diplomatic
Lines—win/win
Explorers:
Live life on edge
Emotion
What lines?
Sentinels:
Maintain status quo
Consider all options
Stay in the lines
Personality
Types

8. Learn Workplace Interactions
5 of each
Focus on
these

9. Workplace Habits
 Personality as manager
 Personality type as colleague
 Personality type as subordinate
ME and
YOU

10. Group Work: Presentation
 Form groups of similar personality types
 Each group presents traits to class
 Discussion: How does your personality type
respond to these trait of others?
 Discuss: What sort of non-productive conflict
comes from these personality clashes?
ME and
YOU

11. Individual Work: Explaining Me
 Write:
Short report using personality type
Analyze whether personality type can work a
certain job
Recommend or don’t recommend
 Purpose: To produce original work that analyzes
and explains concepts
ME

12. Understanding You:
Cultural Awareness Project
YOU
 Students choose country
 Decide if the culture of their business can easily
blend with other culture
 Research country’s cultures
 Traits for personality and traits for cultures similar

13. GlobeProject.com
YOU

14. Cultural Traits = Personality Traits
YOU

15. Variety of Countries:
Use GLOBE Cultural Clusters
YOU

16. Kwintessential.co.uk/resources/guides
“Country Guides and Profiles”
 Culture and Language
 Etiquette and Customs
 Meetings
 Further Management Advice
YOU

17. GlobalEDGE.msu.edu
YOU

18. Ireland
YOU

19. GlobalEdge Course Material
YOU

20. Kiss, Bow, or Shake Hands? (2nd Ed.)
By Wayne A Conaway
*Country by country guide
*Includes a cultural quiz of a
few questions at start
*Excellent resource
*Similar books also good

21. CIA: World Factbook
YOU

22. U.S. State Department Travel:
www.state.gov/travel

23. Assignment: Long Report and
Presentation
 Long report presents and analyzes research
 Ends with recommendation for action
 Presentation
Students exposed to wide variety of cultural influences on
“how to do business in…”
Discuss: How do these traits mirror personality traits?

24. Conclusion: Executive Presence
 Begin with self
 Develop self-awareness
Understand own personality traits
Understand how relate to others in workplace
 Learn about others’ traits
 Expand to international cultures / Global Citizen