Your Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®) personality type can affect how you learn, make decisions and process information as well as aid in successful team building and how you collaborate with others. Understanding your behavioral tendencies can help you anticipate how you may feel or react in a broad range of circumstances, as well as identify any areas of improvement and take steps to become an even stronger team member. In this post, let’s examine the Introverted-Intuitive-Thinking-Perceiving (INTP) Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®) Personality Type and how they contribute to their oc ..read more

Myers-Briggs® Personality Type can shape our behavior, often without individuals being aware of it. It can influence how people build personal and professional relationships, contribute to group efforts, and interact with other team members. This blog will look at Introverted-Sensing-Thinking-Judgment (ISTJ) personality types and how they function on teams in the workplace. ISTJ On a Team In a word, ISTJs are dependable. Their team members know that no matter what goal they are trying to achieve, ISTJs will pull their own weight and contribute toward moving in the right direction. ISTJs are de ..read more

Different people behave in different ways in large part due to their personalities. Developing a nuanced understanding of team members’ Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI®) Personality type provides a way of better anticipating how they may behave in various situations as individuals and in cooperative environments. In this post, we will take a closer look at the Introverted- Sensing-Feeling-Perception (ISFP) personality type. Individuals in the ISFP category value personal connection and harmony, sometimes even more than objective achievements or milestones. Meeting others’ emotional and circu ..read more

  Strong Interest Inventory® Pandemic and Post-Pandemic Careers  As we enter 2022, many college students face uncertainty and worry about choosing their prospective majors. As we wait in the uncertainty of the pandemic, schools have switched to remote learning, and resources such as libraries, computers, and labs remain unavailable. In addition to this, classes are not nearly as interactive, and students can’t get to know each other very well. This major shift in education has affected both students and their faculty greatly. According to recent surveys, in 2020-2021, during the ..read more

Happy Pride Month!   The Strong Interest Inventory assessment: Using Career Assessments in the LGBTQ Community   The Strong Interest Inventory assessment has been a widely used career placement tool for many years. It was first introduced in 1927, undergoing a major renovation in the 1980s and again in the early 2000s. In 2012, new data was gathered to provide assessment recipients more recent information developed for technological advances for them to consider during their career exploration process. However, some still question the adjustments made to this assessment in order to c ..read more

Successful Conflict Management While conflict is often seen as inherently oppositional, it can also be understood as different people caring about different things. From this perspective, conflict becomes two people working together to reach a decision amenable to all parties, rather than an argument in which one person “wins” and the other “loses.” The Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument (TKI®) is a useful starting point for understanding conflict itself and the specific behaviors involved in how individuals resolve them. The TKI® identifies and defines five conflict management “modes”, d ..read more

Successful Conflict Management Most people experience conflict on an almost daily basis because we interact with other people frequently, and sometimes we have different values or care about different things. Most of the time, the stakes are low—for example where to have a meeting or what to order for lunch—but sometimes, someone’s employment or even the integrity of an entire company could be on the line. Resolving conflicts successfully is key to developing positive personal and professional relationships. There are many ways of handling conflict. The five modes identified by the Thomas-Kilm ..read more

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