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Understanding your personality type is super important for portfolio professionals. It can help with SO many things from collaboration, to communication and even negotiating business.
Our COO Fiona Chorlton-Voong (Fiona Chorlton-Voong) happens to be a qualified MBTI Coach, and will be leading our Let’s Talk event tomorrow at 5pm to impart her wisdom on understanding personality types and to answer all your burning questions 🔥
To join our free event follow this link and take part in our poll below: http://staging.the-portfolio-collective.com/events/lets-talk-personality-types/
What do you know about the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator?
👍 Nothing, but I’d love to learn more!
❤️ Very little and I’m not sure it’s for me…
😂 I’ve taken the test but that’s as far as I got
💡 I love all things personality types!
🙌 Other (leave a comment below!)
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I’ve done a lot of reading on personality psychology and use aspects of it with my clients. I don’t use MBTI but a different model (Big 5). Thanks!
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Interesting Sabrina Ahmed, I’ll have to look into the Big 5 model!
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It was so long ago a refresh would be good. I think the meeting of data and tech in recent decades has meant that given the legacy data and norms established; some of these psychometric offerings have become uncannily accurate. Mind you, some people say just ask your partner and they will tell you in 2 minutes!
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Completely agree- scarily accurate sometimes! Looking forward to seeing you there!
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What’s your view on personality types?- Sabina Peskin Coach, Jade Phillips, Emma Buchan, Begona F Alepuz, Mark Harris, Rob Wright, ilona van wegen, Jacob Lehman, Sabrina Ahmed, Andrew Wainstein, Jo Hind, Rachael Ebanks-Gold, Katherine Lambert, Mark Cliffe, Lathish Venugopal, Damien, Lizzy Jones, Lucy Warman, Kathryn Wehner, Juliet Morris, Barbara Pusca, Tara O'Brien, Luke Rodwell
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ENTP ( Extrovert, Intuitive, Thinking and perceiving or ENTJ ( swap perceiving for judgemental) depending on the day or activity. I have also done the Insights personality tests, which has proved interesting. I usually ask my employees to take a test as it helps to navigate and enable people to interact more easily with other team members.
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Hi Damien, thanks for this- I haven’t taken the test yet but can see how valuable it would be when better communicating with people!
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Thanks for the tag. I’m INTJ – Step II / close P. I’m certified in MBTI too plus many others. Useful for self-awareness/team development and used other psychometrics (not MBTI) for hiring and leadership devt.
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Interesting Damien – the times I have taken the test, I have flipped between ENTP and ENTJ!
I’ve also used insights (which was a significant push for me to leave my graduate role) and more recently, DISC. I view all of these as personality preferences rather than a fixed personality as other factors at any given time affects the outcome (although, strong preferences may seem fixed over time!). Useful to understand your preferences and those of Clients / Associates to improve communication and interaction…maybe it will inform your marketing/conversion strategy?
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I lean more toward your view on this @janis chan. Traits more than type and, as a social psychologist, for me context will always play a part when assessing behaviour. Agree that these tools are of some use in gaining insight into behaviour – including our own! Looking forward to a super, supportive discussion Fiona Chorlton-Voong
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Agree with Janis Chan 100% – the thing I find most useful with MBTI is that it is clearly stated these are natural preferences we have but obviously environment, situations and people will affect all life choices. I like the analogy of the left/right handed person. We all use a preferred hand to write with but if (unfortunately) you broke your hand and you were forced to use your less preferred hand, it would be difficult at first but you would get used to it. But once your preferred hand healed, you would most likely revert back to using that hand again. Same goes for your natural preferences in life. It doesn’t mean we are stuck with one way of doing something – more so being aware of when you can flex your style depending on when needed.
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Interesting Janis. I do tend to try and evaluate people I am engaging with so I understand their preferences. It helps me moderate my approach, and create trust and partnerships more easily.
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I am adicted to all sorts of personality types tests – and I agree their are crucial to understand yourself and what drives you or stops you. Shame I can’t join the session
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I am the same @begonafalepuzo – I am just fascinated by people and how we can all learn so much from one another. I spent 3 years training as an Emotional Intelligence coach to get my PCC but I actually found becoming an MBTI practitioner has been the most insightful.
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I’m ENFP, with a sway between E and I depending on the day! I find it really interesting to have seen how it can be used to support and grow yourself as an individual but also within teams. Looking forward to talking more about it this evening!
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The leadership development consultancy I worked with as an executive coach majored on the StrengthsFinder psychometric profile tool. One main reason was because it more accurately reflected our uniqueness as individuals in its results.
Taking the top five strengths from this test, there are only likely to be a handful of us across Europe with the same strengths mix. Which feels more human than some implications from other tests.
But like most things in life, arguments can be made to support or disparage every test.
And I struggle to see their value if you’re not using it in community, as your question suggests.
Which is why I’d prefer to see a values-based tool rather than a personality test. Seems to me that this has more scope for developing meaningful relationships as there are so many personality profiling tools to choose from.
So all I would say to choosing from the myriad of personality profiling tools available is to pick one that’s not just robust academically, but also gives results that are as nuanced & unique as we are. And then put it to work…
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Enjoyed the hour a lot. I’m INFP and quite comfortable in that. I’ve used it to understand my own character but I haven’t really used it much with other people over the years.
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It was a great discussion Pete Domican, thanks for joining! I’m always happy to chat through peoples view of their own MBTI and how the awareness of their own type has affected their relationships or self journey.
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With the exception of I/E, the ’scores’ have always been very close but INFP feels a good fit. Susan Cain’s book ’Quiet’ on introversion was the single biggest thing in recognising things in myself and how I relate to others. I probably haven’t explored the NFP as much as I might have.
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Nothing wrong with that!! It’s my alter ego
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It’s great to get a view of what your personality type is. Very good way to understand how to create an environment that brings out the best of your abilities. I’ve taken the 16 personalities test and I did enjoy reading through my profile (turns out I’m a Protagonist – ENFJ-A). I think personality types can be used as a way to create balanced teams as well, it’s always a positive if you have a diversity of thought within your circle.
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Look I was really comfortable with my INFP and now you’ve gone and spoilt it! 
Would be great to hear your perspectives before the Let’s Talk tomorrow: Vic Mistry, Darryl Howes, Conrad Young, Caoimhe Kelly, Janis Chan, Hermeet Gill, Kelly Cuesta, Rebecca Beck, Saira Chaudry, Caroline Murray, Lexi Radcliffe-Hart, Claire Moss, Ben Legg