The Keirsey Temperament Sorter was created by Dr. David Keirsey, a clinical psychologist. It is a 70 item, questionnaire that is geared towards a person’s preferences and temperaments in the world we know. It figures out, based on your responses, if you are an extroversion or an introversion, sensing or intuition, thinking or feeling, and judging or perceiving. According to the test, I am an idealist, INFP, an introversion, intuitor, feeling, and perceiving, my motto being “making life kinder and
Leadership Paper I For centuries, there have been a number of theories suggesting how people’s temperaments are established. These theories were based on instinct, environment, and behavioral conditioning. A mother and daughter established a personality type test that would change the way people understand themselves and others. Their tools are still being used and broken down by others today. This is helping people to better understand themselves and others, creating better leaders throughout
tests and what they say about people. First of all, I took the Keirsey Temperament Sorter (KS-II) to find my personality type. The Keirsey test was created by Dr. David Keirsey in 1978 (1996) and was designed to measure the student 's understanding of their temperament
have marginal or no preference of Judging over Perceiving (1%).63 The Keirsey Style Sorter and the self-assessments delivers a profound thoughtful, visualization of differences between relationships. Detailed that relate to mating, parenting and leadership are answered to show supportive patterns of behavior. The KTS analyzes questions in regards to family and workplace, and how the different styles interrelate. The Keirsey Sorter addresses the complexity in human personality, emotions and motivation;
just that and also make me happy about what I am doing. I once had a person tell me. “Don’t be afraid to lend a helping hand”. I was identified as a Guardian by the Keirsey Temperament Sorter II. A guardian is a person that can have a lot of fun with friends, but they are quite serious about their duties and responsibilities (Keirsey.) The Multiple Intelligence Inventory listed my strong points as being naturalistic, body/kinesthetic, mathematics, and music (Multiple.) Although these skills ranged
the book “Leadership: Theory, application, skill development (5th ed.) by Lussier and Achua.” Also, Keirsey Style Sorter personality type helps to knowing our temperament type, and work on our weakness and to emerge out as a good leader. According to the Keirsey temperament sorter assessment, the temperament type that fits my personality is ESTJ (Extroversion, Sensing, Thinking, Judging) (Keirsey & Bates, 1984). After the self-assessment, now I feel confident about my qualities and how I need to
Why am I Pursuing an MBA degree? I decided to pursue an MBA degree in order to further my managerial career in the company I work for. The question would be: Why do I think it will enhance my management career? The answer to that question requires short background information. I started my career as an entry level programmer in 2000, after receiving my bachelor’s degree in computer science. My career took a turn to management in 2003 when I was offered a team lead’s position with the company I
” Temperament is a configuration of observable personality traits, such as habits of communication, patterns of action, and sets of characteristic attitudes, values, and talents” (Keirsey). Everybody in the world has their own personality traits, after taking the Keirsey temperament I discovered what my personality traits are, and it even broke it down for me. My test results are introverted, sensor, feeler, judgers (ISFJ) each person has their own test results that describe them, but these are
For this course, I am having a difficult time creating an artifact and reflection, since we have touched on several important topics during these past few weeks. With that be said, I feel that this course provided the most opportunities to assess our individual personalities than compared to other courses. The topics that were covered in the modules have allowed me to gain a positive perspective on how individuals contribute to organizational culture and behavior. The first part of my Artifact is
Introduction Storck is a German family owned candy company with chocolate brands like merci Finest Selection, Toffifee and Knoppers. Like most German companies, there are numerous rules, procedures, regulations and processes. The existence of these things and their strict and consistent application, together with the rigid consequences are in stark contrast to a lot of other cultures. It leaves little to no room for flexibility and individual determination. Despite this, Storck employees around the
On the 15th of May, 3013 an article was featured in Fortune Magazine that was titled “Have we all been duped by the Myers-Briggs Test?” The Myers-Briggs Test or the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a personality assessment test created by Katherine Briggs & her daughter Isabel Briggs Myers, based on psychologist Carl Jung’s type theory. Jung’s theory focused on the cognitive aspects of personality and classified people into types based on how they performed two functions: Taking in information
One of the most diverse parts of a human being apart from physical appearance is their personality. Each person is unique in their own way, too such an extent that two similar people could have a reaction on complete different sides of the emotional spectrum. For example, take a look at Jamie and Kimberly, both girls are best friends and have the same interests, speak similarly, and have the same hobbies. At first glance they may seem like they would have the same personality, however when put
This paper presents a study of my personality in light of the Jung Typology Test. The personality test, which is based off Carl G. Jung’s theory of psychological types, characterizes people by giving them a four-letter type. The eight possible types are extraverted or introverted, sensing or intuition, thinking or feeling, and judging or perceiving (“Personality Test,” n.d.). In step one I discuss the personality test, which gave me the results of extraverted, sensing, thinking, and perceiving
The Myers Briggs personality test is a test that you take that will put in the category of one of the personalities. There are four points that help tell you personality. If you’re an introvert or extravert, if you use intuition or sensing, if you use thinking or feeling, and if you use judging or perceiving.The test asks questions that determines those traits. When I took my personality test I turned out to be a campaigner. A campaigner is very talkative, and do things that they want to do not what
Myers Briggs type indicator(MBTI) It is a study based on Jungian theory of personality that classifies individuals along 4 theoretically independent dimensions and sorts people into 16 different personality types to identify a person’s psychological type in how people perceive the world and make decisions. Also helps you to understand yourself. As I had a psychometric questionnaire I had an ESTP personality as a result, my primary mode of living is focused externally, where I take things in via
bungee jump?" Temperament, Character, and Personality have mystified human beings so much, Plato, himself, wrote about four kinds of character. By understanding each other, humankind may get a better sense of who everyone is. Stereotypes as the outcast will be better understood for what they do and why they do it. By understanding character, people will appreciate differences instead of trying to mold other people into molds of themselves. The book Please Understand Me II, by David Keirsey, is based
I am an INFJ. I have introverted intuition with extraverted feeling. I have a quiet exterior yet am a protector of those around me. I am deeply concerned with my relationships on an individual level. I greatly value knowing people on a one to one basis. I carry this passion into my close relationships. One relationship of significance is with my boyfriend, Adam. I, as an INFJ, prefer to have everything orderly and systematic whereas he is more relaxed and easygoing. I know that I irritate him when
statement closely we can clearly see our Epimethean/Gold students. The Epimethean/Gold student has a strong desire for structure and order and if these are lacking the student may try to impose his/her own order and challenge the teacher (Lowery 2004; Keirsey and Bates, 1984). Akin to our Epimethean/Gold we can also see our Promethean/Green falling into this misbehavior goal. Since our Promethean/Greens thrive on competency and explanation if either of these desires are perceived to be missing the Promethean/Green
Based on the personality assessment I would be characterized as an introverted, sensing, feeling, judging personality. On a social level, ISFJs are characterized by their desire to serve others. In extreme cases the give- and -take relationships are deeply under satisfying to them. Like SJs, ISFJs are very much bound by prevailing social conventions, their form of service specializing in the local, personal and practical. ISFJs have few close friends, and extremely loyal to them. They’re ready to
Based on “The Myers Briggs Type Indicator” self- assessment, my results reflect myself. I've taken similar tests in the past to see how I would collaborate with people that had similar interests as me. My results were ISFJ, meaning Introverted, Sensing, Feeling, and Judgement. It’s based of Extraversion- Introversion, Sensing- Intuition, Thinking- Feeling, and Judging- Perceiving.