Understanding yourself and others - Myers Briggs Type Indicator

Using the Myers Briggs Type Indicator helps you to:

Build a better understanding of your preferences
Improve your people skills
Suggest more effective ways to approach others
Give you better understanding and more options for dealing with people
Be more flexible when in influencing situations

When influencing others, why do you need to understand the other person's preferences? Because:

Effective interactions require we tune in to other people.
Building relationships works by:
- Better identifying and meeting all needs
- More effective use of time
- Offering higher potential for successful outcomes
- Increasing the level of satisfaction people feel

How can understanding the MBTI help me learn and increase my personal awareness?

We have all experienced the 'other in us'. It is the version of our-self that puzzles us (and others) when it emerges from time to time as unusual, out-of-character thoughts, feelings and behaviour. And we are just as surprised when we see others act in ways that are strange and atypical for them. Sometimes we are amused and pleased at seeing a very different side of another person or ourselves. More often however, we are uncomfortable, distressed, and at a loss to explain what the episode might mean.

Questions to explore using the MBTI:

Using the 'least preferred' or 'inferior' function we will explore these questions as an aid to better self-awareness and learning.
What are you like when you are 'not yourself'? How are you different from your usual ways of being?
What events or circumstances are likely to provoke the reactions and changes that you experience?
How do you return to 'being yourself' - to equilibrium? What can you or others do to help this return process? What doesn't help?
What kinds of new things can you learn about yourself (and others) as a result of these 'out of character' experiences?
Why we need these kinds of 'not ourselves' experiences for our psychological well being.