Meyrs Briggs
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Thesis:
To inform students on the history and two of the personality type structures in the Myers Briggs Personality Indicator, extrovert and introvert.
Introduction
Opening Words
I am at a praise and worship concert
I am standing, clapping with my hands held high
My friend is sitting in the back
I am thinking she is not enjoying herself
She is sitting there totally getting into the music
Difference is I am an extrovert that is very expressive and she being an introvert is sitting back just soaking it all in.
Today I will be talking about the two of the Myers Briggs Personality Types that will give you an understanding and appreciating others.
Has opened the door for me in dealing with different people. I have taken 4 different courses in Myers Briggs, completed 16 hour training. My instructor/consultant and I have become friends with her now being my mentor. I have promoted this at my work environment.
To understand who we are and other people in our daily communication and interactions. Relate your personal preferences in a positive way and value the preferences of others that are different from yours.
In order to understand the Myers Briggs I have broken it down into 3 areas.
The history of the Myers Briggs Personality Indicator
Being an Extrovert
Being an Introvert
Transition to Body: Let me begin with the first area
Body
Development
The history of the Myers Briggs Personality Indicator. The MBTI is one of the most used personality indicators out there.
Created by Elizabeth Briggs Myers and her mother Katherine Briggs
Developed their ideas and theories of psychologist Carl Jung
Intrigued with similarities and differences between human personalities, began to develop her own system for “typing” people.
In the early 1940s they put Jungs concepts into language that could be understood and used by the average person.
Myers concluded there were four primary ways people differed from one another and sixteen different personality types
MBTI has evolved and been perfected through continual test research and development.
The indicator is an inventory or psychological instrument rather than a test, no right or wrong answers they are all equally desired.
Extrovert and Introvert is an area on how we prefer to interact with the world and where we direct our engery.
Being an Extravert
Motto is, “Lets talk this over”
Focus their energy on the world outside themselves
Feel deprived when cutoff from the interaction of the outside world
Seek out other people and enjoy lots of interaction
Batteries are charged up by being with others and usually know a lot of people.
Speak before they think
Comfortable with sharing half-baked ideas
Uncomfortable with silence
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At parties they enjoy the center of attention
Are active, energetic, and enthusiastic
Being an Introvert
Motto, “I need to think about it”
Focus their attention and energy on the world inside of themselves.