Career Life Connections 12: Design Thinking Challenge & 16 Personalities Analysis

Essential Question:

How can I learn more about my personal strengths and areas for improvement?

Curricular Competencies:

 Explore possibilities for preferred personal and education/employment futures, using creative and innovative thinking
 Demonstrate and reflect on inclusive, respectful, and safe interactions in
multiple career-life contexts
 Assess personal transferable skills, and identify strengths and those skills that require further refinement

The Process:

1) Go to 16personailities.com and answer all the questions as honestly as you can.

2) What is your Code? ___istp-t_ ____ ____ ____

3) What do each of the letters mean? __i__ =

_________________introverted____________

__s__ = observant______________

_t___ =
__thinking___________________________

__p__ =
___prospecting__________________________

4) What is the name of your designation?

_______virtuoso_____________________________________

5) Complete the following organizer with information about your personality type:

Optimistic, creative, energetic, spontaneous, rational, know how

Strengths to prioritize.

Insensitive, stubborn, private, dislike commitment, risky

Areas for Improvement behavior
 Relationship: need personal space (physically/mentally), dislikes
Friendships/Relationships controlling my schedules, unsure of how to deal and open up
emotions
Friendship: only a few to understand, no obligation to match
other’s plan, likes to be flexible and forcing me to do something
will end the friendship, relaxed attitudes

Thrive diversity and unpredictability, born as a problem-solvers,

Career Paths combo of curiosity and hands-on is like engineering, graphic
designers, and forensic scientists, highly structured working
space is no good, any job that shows creativity is good

Workplace Habits Sense of excitement and unpredictability, strict rules and

guidelines will make me cramped and bored, analyst type is
more suitable

6) Reflect on and analyze your role in the design thinking process and the feedback offered to
you from 16 Personalities.

 What did you offer and contribute to your group in the Design Thinking Challenge?
 How is this a strength?
 What limitations do you acknowledge you have when it comes to this type of group work?
 What traits and skills did “16 Personalities” highlight for you? Do you feel this is an accurate
depiction of you? Why/why not?

7) Type up a written response or make an audio recording of your response. For each point you
make, please provide an example and an explanation to clarify your thinking.

Assessment Rubric:

Extending Proficient Developing Emerging

Response is Response is Response includes Response is a list
formatted with clear formatted with clear points, few examples with few (if any)
points, points, some to support points, examples to support.
examples/evidence examples/evidence and a general No explanation is
to support points, to support points, explanation. offered.
and an in depth and an explanation
explanation that that some
makes personal connection to the
connections to the learning experience.
learning experience.