MBTI® Talk Blog

The holidays can be joyous, but they can also bring acute pressures that put us in the grip of stress and anxiety.

Marvel not that this cherished time with loved ones can be a major stressor. However, knowing a…

The activities you need. Delivered just in time.

CPP brings the ease of performing MBTI® team-oriented workshops to your portfolio with eight packaged activities available for purchase and download. These resources were selected from several of…

Suggestions for people with a preference for Thinking: Think about giving positive feedback to people more regularly. Try to identify those people who gravitate toward this kind of feedback and those who don’t. If you see someone light up after…

People who use their preference for Thinking to make decisions are not cold and heartless. Let’s just get that out in the open here and now. Sure, I have heard people say, “I don’t care what other people feel about…

There are times when I spend too much time worrying about what other people think. I tend to take others’ feelings of disapproval too personally. As a result, my mood can be overly dependent on the moods of others. Not…

Why is it that we have trouble warming up to some people? I believe that we often don’t like in others what we don’t like in ourselves. Think about those people you can’t stand. Could it be that the expression…

Lately I’ve been doing some reading in the MBTI^® manuals (Step I™, Step II™, etc.). I find it useful to revisit these resources from time to time to uncover new ideas (my Intuition preference: I love new possibilities and approaches…

It’s absolutely true: Any type can do anything. In fact, Isabel Briggs Myers believed it was an advantage for an organization to hire employees with personality types different from those types that most often self-select into specific job roles. We…

Be prepared for some push-back from clients who report Thinking in-preference Critical on the MBTI^® Step II™ assessment. The bullet-point descriptors on the MBTI^® Step II™ Interpretive Report can be more direct (some say harsh) for this result than for…

There is just so much depth with the Thinking–Feeling facets that many people only begin to explore. During the MBTI® Certification Program I take participants through several decision-making stages—T–F facet by T–F facet.

A participant asked me this week how I…