MBTI

Spent a useful day yesterday with the other members of our church staff team doing teamwork training using the Myers Briggs Type Indicator. It is a good way to get to work better when you have a grip on your colleagues' preferences. We were helped by Catherine Date who runs her own business called CD (Character Dynamics). She is very good at being gentle with those for whom the whole experience is very new. I'd done it twice before. Interesting to see that I have changed from being ENTJ (1989) to INTP (1991) and now INTJ. If you want CD to help your team contact her on catherine.date@btinternet.com.

INTJs tend to focus on the inner world of ideas and impressions and also the future with a view towards patterns and possibilities. We tend to base our decisions on logic and like a planned approach to life. This is mainly what I am like although my preference for J over P is so marginal that I like a flexible, spontaneous, balanced, ordered approach to life most of the time. Go on, make me jump.

This all sits with my personal preference to spend most of the day sitting in my mind-bogglingly untidy-looking yet amazingly ordered study tackling several complex tasks at the same time, enjoying them all but never finishing any.