What Type Of Leader Are You?
When this sort of question comes up, the appropriate response is more to question what personality type you are.
And this is by no means to generalize oneself or so they say put you in a box. When one implies what type are you, they are asking in accordance to Isabelle Myers, she of the famous MBTI test (one half at least). Ms. Myers inspired by Carl Jung’s theory of human psychology devised a test with the aid of her daughter Mrs. Briggs. This personality tests typecasts people into 16 different personality types.
There are 4 Scales.
- Where you like to focus your attention: E-I Dichotomy
- E Extraversion: You prefer to focus on the outer world of people and things
- I Introversion:You prefer to focus on the inner world of ideas and impressions
- The way you like to look at things: S-N Dichotomy
- S Sensing:You tend to focus on the present and on concrete information gained from your senses
- N Intuition: You tend to focus on the future, with a view toward patterns and possibilities
- The way you like to go about decideing things: T-F Dichotomy
- T Thinking: You tend to base your decisions primarily on logic and on objective analysis of cause and effect
- F Feeling: You tend to base your decisions primarily on values and on subjective evaluation of person-centered concerns
- How you deal with the outer world: J-P Dichotomy
- J Judging: You like a planned and organized approach to life and prefer to have things settled
- P Perceiving: You like a flexible and spontaneous approach to life and to keep your options open
Your perported type comprises one of each of these scales to be a 4-letter personality type.
It is theorised that all human beings are one of these 16 types. But one thing should be made clear is that these scales do not imply you are supposed to be clearly one or the other. These scales are just that, a continuum as you age and gather experience you can change from one region to another. It is just when you take a MBTI test it is shown which regions you show a preference for.
Take my example, My MBTI Personality is ENFP.
But when it is seen how they depicted my scales it is seen that
|
DICHOTOMY |
REPORTED TYPE |
PREFERENCE |
|
E-I |
E |
SLIGHT |
|
S-N |
N |
MODERATE |
|
T-F |
F |
SLIGHT |
|
J-P |
P |
SLIGHT |
From my test scores, on the scale of the two extremes E-I I show a slight preference towards E. Visually it can be interpreted as
|————|-~————–|
E I am here I
That can mean while I am predominantly extrovert, there are times where I can revert to introvertism.
So this can go on to explain all the rest of the types.
And this is what I mean that you can’t be boxed by the letters but rather it is just a tool for self-discovery and knowing more about yourself.
And once you have figured out what personality type you are you can start looking for the answer to the question of What Type Of Leader You Are!
By the by, MBTI personality test that I took was done by Concordia Counselling and Development.