MBTI
The best-known and most trusted personality assessment tool
Myers Briggs Type Indicator®
The MBTI® instrument is a self-report assessment tool developed by Isabel Myers and Katharine Briggs based on Carl Jung’s psychological type theory. This instrument helps individuals to identify their natural preferences they use when taking in information, how they structure that information to make decisions, how they orient themselves to the world, and how these preferences interact with one another. It also helps individuals to better understand other’s normal differences constructively. The MBTI® only assesses normal behaviour; it is not a test of intelligence, competence, mental or emotional health, nor is it a selection tool.
The MBTI® is a dynamic model which has proven to be extremely useful when applied to:
- Self-understanding and development - identifying natural strengths and potential areas for growth
- Organisational development – improving communication, enhancing problem solving and decision making, recognising and managing stress, and dealing with conflict
- Team building – identifying likely strengths and possible blind spots
- Management and leadership training
Where the MBTI® Step II is undertaken the results can be used at both the individual and team / organisational level to better understand your / the team’s communication, decision making, change management, and conflict management styles that may be occurring.
The current MBTI® instrument (published in 1998) has been developed and researched for over more than 60 years, and is used by more than 2 million people world-wide each year in over 70 countries, including most US Fortune 100 companies and most major Australian companies, and has been translated into over 30 languages.
The MBTI® instrument is one of the most reliable and valid self-report assessments currently available, with all the reliability coefficients above 0.80 and the great majority above 0.90, and the validity having been proven on each of the separate preference scales, and on the type combinations and whole type.
The Myers Briggs tool is also very effective in helping a team increase their performance levels, by understanding each other’s preferences and gaining a clear pathway to work together.
