A recent article by OPP, the publisher of the MBTI in the UK, titled Early Obstacles to Type Development described potential obstacles to effective type development. Indeed type theory is a developmental model and so it follows that the unfolding…
Why take a personality assessment? Last week, a couple students asked me that in an interview. There are many good reasons to take a personality assessment including increased awareness about strengths and blind spots, career development, and understanding and validating…
Jane Kise has written another fabulous book. In this newest offerring, she melds together emotional intelligence, psychological type, and brain science to help you discover what matters to you and how to resonate with these values. The book begins by…
The MBTI Step III was the final piece of Isabel Myers' dream to help people be at their best: to know their strengths and to to effectively work on their developmental challenges. The Step III instrument was first published in…
The venerable MBTI turns 70 years old next year. In that time, the MBTI has become one of the most researched, respected and widely used personality inventories in history. It has remained relevant over 7 decades despite the emergence of…
What is the practical value of the MBTI Step III given that there are so many personality assessment tools on the market, including the MBTI Step I and II? What is to be gained by using this tool over…
The MBTI Step III is a tool that describes an individual’s progress toward healthy type development. Psychological type is not a static label but a dynamic path leading toward maturity of the personality. At the Association for Psychological Type International…
Many people have encountered the MBTI either at work, at a career center, or in counseling. Several online tests incorporate MBTI principles. The MBTI I describes the broad strokes of an individual personality with the goal of identifying people with…
The April 22, 2010 issue of the Wall Street Journal profiled the use of the MBTI in career planning: It seems that this old classic is still pertinent even today. I will have to write a comment to the paper…
Identifying your unique personal qualities is a key factor in maximizing potential. The challenging part is to find out how you can parlay these characteristics into behaviors that are actually going to yield improved competence, a better job, or general…