MBTI Results - Flavin
- 1. MBTI ® Interpretive Report, College Edition Copyright 1988, 1998, 2005, 2010 by Peter B. Myers and Katharine D. Myers. All rights reserved. Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Myers-Briggs, MBTI, Introduction to Type, and the MBTI logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of the MBTI Trust, Inc., in the United States and other countries. The CPP logo is a trademark or registered trademark of CPP, Inc., in the United States and other countries. CPP, Inc. | 800-624-1765 | www.cpp.com MBTI® Interpretive Report COLLEGE EDITION Report for KEVIN FLAVIN October 15, 2015 Interpreted by Summer Odom ALED301
- 2. MBTI® Interpretive Report COLLEGE EDITION KEVIN FLAVIN / ESTJ / Page 2 INTRODUCTION This report presents information to help you make use of your Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI® ) results. The research-based Myers-Briggs® assessment identifies sixteen different personality types that can be used to describe people. Learning about these types will help you better understand yourself and others and improve the interactions in your daily life. Based on your responses to the MBTI assessment, your personality type is ESTJ EXTRAVERSION SENSING THINKING JUDGING ESTP ISTP ISFJISTJ ESFP ISFP ESFJ INFJ INFP ENFP ENFJ INTJ ENTP INTP ENTJESTJ Based on the work of psychologist Carl Jung, the MBTI assessment was developed with great care by Isabel Briggs Myers and Katharine Cook Briggs, who spent years observing human behavior. Their ideas help explain why people are interested in different things, like different kinds of work, and sometimes find it hard to understand each other—all due to differences in how they take in information and make decisions about it. Your Interpretive Report will show how your personality type is distinct from other types and how it influences the way you communicate, learn, and work with other people. This tool has been used for more than 60 years with students around the world to help them Choose classes, majors, and careers that match their interests and personality Understand different ways to study and learn more effectively and successfully Improve communication and teamwork as they gain awareness of the personality differences they see in others Manage the stress they may experience as a result of their studies or their relationships
- 3. MBTI® Interpretive Report COLLEGE EDITION KEVIN FLAVIN / ESTJ / Page 3 YOUR PREFERENCES AND PERSONALITY TYPE Your personality type is made up of your preferences in four separate categories that together describe how you typically go about noticing and thinking about things and interacting with people and the world. When you completed the assessment, you made choices that reflected your preference in each of the four categories. THE FOUR CATEGORIES OF PERSONALITY TYPE Where you focus your attention The way you take in information The way you make decisions How you deal with the world THE PREFERENCES Extraversion or Sensing or Thinking or Judging or Introversion Intuition Feeling Perceiving E I S N T F J P Everyone uses all of these preferences, but one in each category is favored and used more often, more comfortably. Think of this like being right-handed or left-handed. Both hands are necessary and useful, but one is naturally favored and used more often, more easily. Similarly, type preferences are choices between equally valuable and useful qualities. Your ESTJ preferences are highlighted below. Intuition Taking in information by seeing patterns and the big picture, with a focus on future possibilities Perceiving Taking a flexible, spontaneous approach to life, liking to keep options open Extraversion Focusing attention on the outer world of people and things Thinking Making decisions mostly on the basis of logic and objective analysis Sensing Taking in information through the five senses, with a focus on the here and now Judging Taking a planned and organized approach to life, liking to have things settled Introversion Focusing attention on the inner world of ideas and impressions Feeling Making decisions mostly on the basis of values and subjective, people-centered concerns ESTJ Where you focus your attention The way you take in information The way you make decisions How you deal with the world E I S N J P T F
- 4. MBTI® Interpretive Report COLLEGE EDITION KEVIN FLAVIN / ESTJ / Page 4 YOUR PERSONALITY TYPE DESCRIPTION An ESTJ is likely to be… KEY DESCRIPTORS Analytical Logical Practical Realistic Pragmatic Decisive Organized Systematic Assertive Outspoken Dependable Conscientious ESTJs take charge and get things done. They act quickly to complete tasks by organizing projects and people. They value competence, efficiency, and results. They can identify the steps needed to accomplish a task, foresee potential problems, assign responsibilities, and assemble resources. They cover all the bases, leave no loose ends, and finish on time. ESTJs make decisions quickly and confidently, using objective, logical analysis. They are clear, outspoken, and assertive when expressing their opinions. They organize their lives and work and have little patience with confusion, inefficiency, and halfway measures. They are tough when the situation requires it. ESTJs focus on what is real and concrete. Using past experience as a guide to problem solving, they prefer tasks in which results are immediate, visible, and tangible. They approach tasks systematically and are dependable and conscientious in completing them. ESTJs prefer proven procedures and ways of doing things, but when things are not working they make a plan and act to correct the situation, and can be forceful in implementing their plans. ESTJs are clear and straightforward in their communication, so people know where they stand. They can exude a certainty that others sometimes find overpowering. They enjoy interacting with others and can be quite gregarious, especially around tasks, games, traditions, or family activities. They take their roles seriously and fulfill them responsibly. ESTJs prefer factually oriented classes focused on learning skills that will enable them to do something practical. They are uncomfortable with abstractions and theories. They approach their education systematically with a view toward the bottom line—the job or profession they have in mind. They often choose majors that will lead to administrative or management positions. ESTJs have two potential blind spots. First, if they fail to take in enough information, they may decide too quickly and make mistakes. Second, if they do not stop to logically process the information, they may end up making inconsistent or overly harsh decisions. They need to collect all the relevant facts, including how their decision will affect others, and submit these to a logical analysis of all the pros and cons before deciding.
- 5. MBTI® Interpretive Report COLLEGE EDITION KEVIN FLAVIN / ESTJ / Page 5 YOUR UNIQUE PREFERENCE PATTERN Your personality type is much more than a simple combination of your four preferences. Each type has its own unique preference pattern that helps explain why what’s easy or interesting for one type is difficult or dull for another. The key to understanding your unique pattern is found in the two middle letters of your four-letter type code. Those two letters show which of four mental processes you prefer. Sensing or Thinking or Intuition Feeling S N T F The pattern also shows whether you use your #1, or favorite, process in the outer world of people and things, that is, in an Extraverted way, or whether you use it in your inner world of ideas and impressions, in an Introverted way. Here’s what this means for your type, ESTJ. You use your #1 process, Thinking, in the outer world of people and things, where it is most easily observed by others because you express it outwardly. You use your #2 process, Sensing, in your inner world of ideas and impressions, where it is much less observable by others. You also use Intuition and Feeling, but with less frequency and ease. Feeling is the process you are most likely to overlook. #1 Thinking Most preferred #3 Intuition Third most preferred #2 Sensing Second most preferred #4 Feeling Least preferred #1 Thinking Used in the outer world #2 Sensing Used in the inner world Everyone uses all four of the mental processes, but each type has its own pattern that signals which of the four is favorite and most used, and which is second, third, and least favorite and used. People tend to focus on their #1 and #2 processes in the first half of life and become more interested in developing and using #3 and #4 in the second half of life. Your ESTJ pattern is shown below. Your type description takes all these patterns into account in describing your typical behavior in everyday life. Review this description carefully to see how it measures up to your self-knowledge. If when you read the description you feel comfortably understood, then the four-letter type in this report is probably right for you. The description is meant to help you trust and develop the preferences that come most naturally to you, but remember that you use all eight preferences some of the time, depending on the circumstances.
- 6. MBTI® Interpretive Report COLLEGE EDITION KEVIN FLAVIN / ESTJ / Page 6 CLARITY OF YOUR PREFERENCES The MBTI assessment not only reports your preferences based on the way you responded to the questions but also tells how clear you were in selecting each preference over its opposite. This is called the preference clarity index, or pci. The graph below depicts your pci results in each of the four categories. The longer the bar, the more clearly you expressed that preference over its opposite; the shorter the bar, the less sure you are about that preference. Do your choices seem on target for you? PCI RESULTS: ESTJ Extraversion E Sensing S Thinking T Judging J I Introversion N Intuition F Feeling P Perceiving Very Clear Very ClearClearClear Moderate ModerateSlight Slight 30 30250 5 201510510152025 11 12 7 27 If Your ESTJ Pattern Doesn’t Seem Quite Right People’s personalities are much too complex to be fully accounted for by a single set of questions on a personality assessment, no matter how well researched those questions might be. If your type description doesn’t seem quite right for you, consider the following: When you answered the MBTI questions, what was your frame of mind? Did you choose the responses that came most easily and naturally to you, reflecting your most natural, true self? Or did you respond in ways you thought you should respond, or in ways you felt others would want you to? If your responses did not reflect your most natural, true self, then your description may not quite fit. Was it hard for you to make a choice when responding to some of the questions? If so, perhaps that helps account for why you feel your results don’t accurately reflect your true personality. What if the choice had gone the other way? What letter in your type might change? If your responses were those that came most easily to you and reflected your most natural self, yet the description does not seem to fit you well, can you find a type that describes you better? Use the Introduction to Type® booklet to review descriptions of each of the sixteen types and talk to your counselor to help you find the type that fits you best. CPP, Inc. | 800-624-1765 | www.cpp.com © Full copyright information appears on page 1.