Applied Organizational Studies—Personality Type Exercise

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For this unit, you are to have read the links on the Myers-Briggs Personality Type Inventory, and you should have determined your personality type.

So, here’s the assignment:

• Each type has its own strengths and its own blindspots. What is your type good for? What does your type particularly fail to appreciate? To what extent are those generalizations true to your own experience of yourself?
• What personality types complement your type? What personality types just inevitably tick you off (remember, “Opposites attract—but only for the first three or four marriages!”)
• Suppose you were assembling a work team. What personality types would you want to gather around you to protect against your blindside? How would you find a way to work with them, given that they march to a different drummer than you do? How would you enhance their performance and encourage them to do their best, despite your obvious (to them) inadequacies? How would you protect yourself from being held hostage to them?