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Poll of the week 📢
We’re keeping it short and sweet this week – do you know what your personality type is?💡
If you do and you’re happy to share, let us know in the comments!
Do you know what your personality type is?13 Comments-
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Great, that sounds interesting. When is it?
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Hi Volker, the 20th of May at 1pm! The link to sign up is here: http://staging.the-portfolio-collective.com/events/fireside-chat-personality-types-and-portfolio-careers/
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Have to say I’m synical about MBTI, IMHO they are a mix of voodo magic and self fullfilling prophacy.
And as if to prove it, I sometimes comes out as an Extrovert and sometimes an Introvet, depends on my mood and the amount of coffee I’ve drunk
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Interesting thoughts Allan Kelly, what I love about MBTI is that it isn’t a test or a way to pigeon hole you into one ”type’’ but for you to understand your preferences in life and be aware of how we, as people will take in information and make decisions differently. Extroversion and Introversion in the MBTI matrix is more about where you get your energy from rather than how you socially interact with others.
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Yep, I have always been borderline Extrovert vs Introvert and always tested as an ENTJ marginally on the ”E” … with a speaker once I raised the point and said that I thought I was an ”I” who had leaned to ”E” … he asked what made me think I was an ”I” and I said that if I don’t get ”I” me time I get stressed as that is where I get my energy reserves from whereas ”E”ing depletes my energy reserves. He agreed that I was probably right. Like other tools no doubt, MBTI has had some bad press over the years, but I am haopy holding it more loosely … none of these tools are perfect … and … they all shine a light into the black box of understanding our personality type/behavioral style/preferences especially when we triangulate a number of different tools.
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Mike, sounds like we share some similar I/E traits! I’m typically an ISTJ but have been told – post presenting or leading discussions etc – that surely I’m an E. Can also vary somewhat if I compare me as a post Univ graduate to where I am now in career and life. I’ve found it a very helpful tool, particularly for my own self awareness and also helping diverse teams better understand each other and then performance better and more enjoyably as a result.
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I’m INFP on Myers-Briggs.
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I tend to steer away from phrasing as personality ”type” and more about self-awareness and awareness of others’ personality preferences. For Myers-Briggs; I flip between ENTJ/ENTP (and a bit of an ambivert so the I versions of these!). From DISC; preference is also varied and depends on when working under stress or not. Completed other leadership colour / insights quizzes – one of which early in my career led me to leave the company who I had the test with as it wasn’t aligned with who I was (Rolls-Royce, I was a red-blue mix in a green company! In fact, another manager in the same group also resigned not long after the same workshop!). They’re interesting to work out how best to work with other people (and yourself) but I disagree with using them as a tool for recruitment.
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Absolutely agree on the last statement. When I was at Cranfield, a major firm was asked not to use one of their ’personalities’ tests as the results were unrecognisable and the head of organisational psychology described it as ’bo***cks’ .
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We have our Fireside Chat on all things personality types – and portfolio careers coming up soon – it’d be great to see you there Annelise Lepage, Izabela Wlodarska, Conrad Young, Caoimhe Kelly, Janis Chan, Tracey Rob Perera, Pete Domican, Darryl Howes, Sabina Peskin Coach, Faris Aranki, Alan Tang, James McKerracher, Rob Wright, Volker Ballueder , Carolina Melendez, Jon Saunders, Ilaria Vilkelis, Saori Okada, Arabella Nairne, Maria Evans PhD, Tamsin Tweddell, Juliet Morris, @brainisaliveandwell, Rachael Ebanks-Gold, Stacey Gibson