{"id":355,"date":"2010-07-17T14:51:08","date_gmt":"2010-07-17T14:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saasoft.com\/blog\/?p=355"},"modified":"2010-07-17T14:51:08","modified_gmt":"2010-07-17T14:51:08","slug":"is-this-a-clash-of-personality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hcse.blog\/?p=355","title":{"rendered":"Is this just a Clash of Personality?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Have you ever have the experience of trying to work on a common challenge with a team member and it just feels like you are on different planets?\u00a0 You are using the same language yet are not communicating – they go off at apparently random tangents while you are trying to get a decision; they deluge you with detail when you ask about the big picture; you get upset when their cold logic threatens to damage team unity. The list is endless.\u00a0 If you experience this sort of confusion and frustration then you may be experiencing a personality clash – or to be more accurate a pyschological type mismatch.<\/p>\n

Carl Jung described a theory of psychological types that was later developed into the Myers-Briggs Type Indictator (MBTI).\u00a0 This extensively validated method classifies people into sixteen broad groups based on four dimensions that are indicated by a letter code. It is important to appreciate that there are no good\/bad types or right\/wrong types – each describes a mode of thinking: a model of how we gather information, make decisions and act on those decisions.\u00a0 Everyone uses all the modes of thinking to some degree – we just prefer some more than others and so we get more practice with them.\u00a0 The purpose of MBTI is not to “correct” someone elses psychologcial type – it is to gain a conscious and shared awareness of the effect of psychological types on interpersonal and team dynamics. For example, some tasks and challenges suit some psychological types better than others – they resonate – and when this happens these tasks are achieved more easily and with greater satisfaction.\u00a0 “One’s meat is another’s poison” sums the idea up.\u00a0 Just having insight into this dynamic is helpful because it offers new options to avoid frustrating, futile and wasteful conflict.\u00a0 So if you are curious find out your MBTI – you can do it on line in a few minutes (for example http:\/\/www.personalitytest.net\/types\/index.htm<\/a>) and with that knowledge you can learn what your psychological type implies.\u00a0 Mine is INFJ …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Have you ever have the experience of trying to work on a common challenge with a team member and it just feels like you are on different planets?\u00a0 You are using the same language yet are not communicating – they go off at apparently random tangents while you are trying to get a decision; they … <\/p>\n

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