MBTI - 4 Temperaments

Myers Briggs type

indicators facilitate our Guardians (sj)
understanding of
people with various
personality ‘types.’
Rationals (nt)

Today, we’ll focus on

Idealists (nf)
how “The Four
Temperaments” arise Artisans (sp)
from the combination
of the four dimensions
to yield 16 “type
indicators.”
 Myers Briggs Dimensions of Temperament
Your preferences in action

 Are you one of those organized workers who always gets your
projects in before they're due?
 Or do you put off getting the job done until the very last possible
moment?
 Is your boss someone who readily lets you know how you're
doing? Or do they always leave you unsure of precisely where you
stand?
 Do you find that a few people on your staff are incredibly creative
but can never seem to get to a meeting on time?
 Do others require a specific agenda at the meeting in order to
focus on the job at hand?
 Recognize your own type and those of your coworkers using
Myers Briggs Type Indicators
 Myers Briggs Dimensions of Temperament
Your preferences in action

 Extraversion / Introversion
– Where do you get your energy - what “charges your batteries” -
group think vs.. introspection, perhaps.
 Sensing / Intuition
– How do you gather information. Present / future, practical /
imaginative, details / patterns, sequential / random
 Thinking / Feeling
– How do you make decisions ?
– Thinking/feeling, laws/circumstances, justice/mercy
 Judgment / Perception
– How do you organize your environment
– Planned / open ended, control / adapt, resolved / pending
Guardians (sj)
 Administrators
– Inspector (iStJ)
– Supervisor (eStJ)

 Conservators
– Protector (iSfJ)
– Provider (eSfJ)
Guardians (sj)
CONCRETE communication
COOPERATIVE in achieving
goals
Skilled in logistics
40% - 45% of the population
Security seeking
Enculturating as parents,
helpmates as spouses,
conformity oriented as
children
Guardians (sj)
Being CONCRETE in communicating & COOPERATIVE in achieving
goals, can become highly skilled in LOGISTICS.
Thus their best skills are supervising & inspecting (SJT
administering), or supplying and protecting (SJF conserving).
They are proud of themselves to the extent they are effective in
action, do good deeds, and feel confident of themselves.
In search of security as they are the "Security Seeking Personality" --
they trust in legitimacy and hunger for membership.
20 of the presidents of the US have been “sj” types.
 Isabel Myers attributed: dependable, factual, good maintainers,
painstaking, routinized, thorough, conservative,consistent, detailed, hard-
working, patient, persevering, sensible, stable, and unimpulsive.
Rationals (nt)
 Engineers
– Architect (iNTp)
– Inventor (eNTp)

 Coordinators
– Mastermind (iNTj)
– Fieldmarshal (eNTj)
Rationals (nt)
ABSTRACT communication

Utilitarian in achieving goals

Strong in STRATEGIC
ANALYSIS

5% - 7% of the population
Knowledge seeking

Individualizing as parents,
mindmates as spouses,
learning oriented as children.
Rationals (nt)
Their most practiced and developed intelligent operations tend to
be marshalling and planning (NTJ organizing). iNTj is considered
the most independent of all the types.
They are proud of themselves when they feel competence in
action, in the degree to which they are autonomous, and their
confidence is bolstered by their strong will.
Ever in search of achievement, this is the “knowledge seeking”
personality -- trusting in reason and hungering for achievement.
They tend to migrate toward the sciences and technology.
They are infrequent in the population, comprising no more than
7%.
There have been 8 “nt” presidents of the US.
Idealists (nf)
 Advocates
– Healer (iNFp)
– Champion (eNFp)
 Mentors
– Counselor (iNFj)
– Teacher (eNFj)
Idealists (nf)
ABSTRACT communication
COOPERATIVE in achieving
goals
Diplomatic Integration
8% - 10% of the population

Encourage imagination &

fantasy in their children,
spiritual intimacy with
spouse, strive for consensus,
and continual self renewal for
themselves.
Idealists (nf)
Can become highly skilled in DIPLOMATIC INTEGRATION. Most
practiced & developed in teaching & counseling (NFJ mentoring),
or conferring & tutoring (NFP advocating).

Strive to be sages in one of these forms of social development.

Instinct for interpersonal integration, and often speak
interpretively and metaphorically of the abstract world of their
imagination.

They are proud of themselves when empathic in action, and

benevolent, and feel confident of themselves in the degree they
are authentic. This is the “Identity Seeking” personality. Often
prominent in the humanities, ethics / law, and personnel work.

There has never been an “nf” president of the US.

Artisans (sp)
 Entertainers
– Composer (iSfP)
– Performer (eSfP)
 Operators
– Crafter (iStP)
– Promoter (eStP)
Artisans (sp)
CONCRETE communication
UTILITARIAN in achieving
goals
Skilled in tactical variation
35% - 40% of the population
Sensation Seeking
They tend to be permissive as
parents, playmates as
spouses, and play oriented as
children
Artisans (sp)
Being CONCRETE in communicating, and UTILITARIAN in
achieving goals, they can be highly skilled in TACTICAL
VARIATION. They tend to be successful in promoting and
operating (SPT expediting), or displaying and composing (SPF
improvising). They would be virtuosos of these artistic operations.
They are proud of themselves in the degree they are graceful in
action, daring, and feel confident of themselves when highly
adaptable.
This is the “Sensation Seeking” personality -- trusting in
spontaneity and hungering for impact on others. Their preferred
time and place is the ‘here and now.’
They tend to be permissive as parents, playmates as spouses, and
play oriented as children. There have been 12 “sp” presidents.
 Who We Are

Typical values ?
Dept.Vs.Gen’l Population ?

Results of the MBTI

Slices of Pie ?
assessments.
Citations / Resources ?
Q&A ?
 MBTI - Midyear 2001
Department Typical Dimensions

62
60
58
56
54
52
50
48
46
Introvert Sensing Feeling Judging
MBTI - Dept. Vs. Gen’l Population

50

40

30

20

10

0
Guardian Rational Idealist Artisan

Dept Gen'l Pop

MBTI-Dept. Distribution
Midyear 2001

Artisan
16%

Guardian
Idealist 46%
22%

Rational
16%
Citations and resources
 Please Understand Me, An Essay on Temperament Styles, by David
Keirsey and Marilyn Bates.
– Prometheus Nemesis Book Company. One of the more widely known books
describing the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. It includes a self-test (many do
not consider it to be as good as the "real" MBTI test). See
http://www.keirsey.com. By far the best web site on the subject I came
across.
 Gifts Differing, Isabel Briggs-Myers (with Peter Myers). Consulting
Psychologists Press, 1980 ISBN 0-89106-011-1 (pb) 0-89106-015-4 (hb).
– The real Please Understand Me, from the horse's mouth (i.e., the daughter
in the original mother/daughter pair). No self-test included.
 http://www.delta-associates.com/mbti.html . Self test only with
authorization.
 Looking at Type: The Fundamentals by Charles Martin, Ph.D. This is the
book we got when we took the tests.