Why know your MBTI profile ?
The MBTI questionnaire provides a solid and reliable base for both professional and self-development by helping to identify and understand the impact of our personality on our behaviours.
Carl Jung1 work have had a significant influence on the MBTI, a psychological tool that helps for better self-knowledge, and a clearer vision of the different perspectives and decision-making paths.
The MBTI offers a constructive and flexible framework to understand the differences and strengths of everyone, according to four equally important dimensions, leading to a framework of our preferred functioning systems :
- The vibration of one’s energy
- How one’s gathers information
- How one’s makes decisions
- How one’s perceives the environments
This valuable framework provides relevant benchmarks for building effective collaborations, especially in the context of change management, project management, and the implementation of agile methods.
In practice, the MBTI helps to :
- Manage diversity and multiculturalism
- Handle conflicts
- Explore career development options
- Facilitate decision-making
- Recognize and manage stress
- Understand one’s preferred learning styles
- Identify its leadership, management, and influence styles
- Improve communication and relationships with others
- Understand how information is gathered, decisions are made, and others are perceived
How MBTI session works ?
The questionnaire needs to be completed before the session, in which you should respond naturally and spontaneously. It is important to note that this is a questionnaire, not a test, and there is no better profile than another.
Once the questionnaire is completed, a debriefing session with a professional is necessary (plan 1.5 to 2 hours) to clarify and identify its implementation based on your goals.
The debriefing session is as important as the questionnaire itself since its helps to decipher one’s mechanism and highlight areas for improvement in one or more topics.
MBTI vs. Enneagram
The cognitive function structures of the MBTI express ways of interacting with information, particularly by providing insights into the “how” of behaviour—how I communicate with others, how I make decisions, etc.
The Enneagram, on the other hand, illuminates our value system by focusing on “why” I function this way rather than how.
- Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961), Swiss psychiatrist and psychologist, founder of analytical psychology, and pioneer of personal development tools through many concepts such as synchronicity, collective unconscious, archetypes etc,. During his lifetime, Carl Jung has been translated into many languages and honoured by prestigious universities (Oxford, Harvard, Yale, Geneva, etc.), conferring him the reward of Dc. honoris causa ↩︎