About MBTI

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI®)

Establish a path for lifelong development

Self-awareness is the first step to personal and professional growth. The MBTI® instrument helps individuals understand their strengths, their preferred working styles, and ultimately helps them see their potential.

Insights from the assessment can be used to develop an understanding of differences in an organizational context or individually and provide clarity. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator helps create appreciation for communication styles and task approach between leaders, team members and colleagues – enabling them to work better together.

What is the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)?

It is a short, self-report questionnaire used to measure and describe people’s preferences for how they like to focus attention, get information, make decisions and orient their lives. Created by a mother-daughter team, Katharine Briggs and Isabel Myers, the instrument was designed to make Carl Jung’s theory of psychological types understandable and useful in everyday life.

The tool provides a versatile measure of personality that looks at eight personality preferences people use at different times. These eight preferences are organized into four dichotomous scales, which are illustrated below. After more than 70 years of research and development, the current tool is the most widely used instrument for understanding individual personality differences. Last year alone, over two million people gained valuable insight about themselves and the people they interact with by taking the official Myers-Briggs personality assessment.

When to use the Myers-Briggs

Leadership Development

Successful leadership is critical to today’s organizations. The instrument offers valuable insights for your organization’s leaders, It deepens leaders’ understandings of their Myers-Briggs personality type and the types of those they are leading to help them manage better, provide more meaningful feedback, and improve individual and team performance.

Team Development

When people understand their MBTI preferences and can recognize the strengths others bring to a team, the entire team functions more efficiently. Introduction to Type® and Teams helps your clients or employees understand how their personality types relate to their contributions and effectiveness as team members.

Career Development

Many aspects of choosing and managing a career a related to an individual’s personality type. The Career Report explores preferred work tasks and work environments, as well as the most popular and least popular occupations for a client’s type, and offers strategies for improving job satisfaction. The MBTI publication Introduction to Type® and Careers contains interactive exercises to explore personality type and career matching. It also contains types of goal setting and decision making.