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EXERCISE 2
Identifying My Personality Type
> Purpose:
To introduce Carl Jung's theory of personality types, to help
each person identify his or her preferred types, and to discuss how
working with different types might influence leadership styles.
> Directions:
l) Each participant completes and scores the Jungian Type
Indicator*.
2) The participants and leader review the meaning of the
eight-letter groupings, the 16 personality types and the
four comfort zones.
3) The leader gathers participants according to the four
comfort zones; each group discusses the following two
questions:
a) how should other people act (what should other
people do more of) in groups?
b) what do you wish other people in groups would
accept about you?
4) The leader asks the SF group to combine with the NT
group, the NF to combine with the ST group. These new
groups discuss the following:
a) share the various response to questions in Step
3.
b) discuss how differences/preferences contribute
to problems and successes in groups and teamwork.
c) discuss how knowing about
preferences/personality types can be used by
leaders to be more effective.
5) Return to the full group and share insights and
observations.
*A Jungian Type Indicator test is one that is designed to identify different kinds of personality. There are several of these tests that have been developed from Carl Jung's theory of "psychological types," such as the Myers-Briggs, the Singer-Loomis, the Keirsey Character Sorter and the Grey-Wheelright. For information on these tests and how to interperet them, we suggest doing a search on a keyword search engine, such as Altavista. Use one of the test names as your keyword(s), and place them in " ". Example: "Myers-Briggs"
Comments to: crs@uvm.edu
Reviewed as of 4/20/98