Work Types

Based on the work of Carl Jung, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is the psychological profile employed by thousands of professionals worldwide. Now, three Myers-Briggs experts show how individuals can use this revealing profile them to recognize their own work style, enabling them to overcome the obstacles of day-to-day tasks and successfully adjust to the constant changes in the work world.

INTRODUCTION

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Solutions for Real Problems

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Psychological Type

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Who Should Read This Book

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Reading This Book

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CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION TO TYPE

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The Office Awakens

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The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and Psychological Type

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Ways of Getting and Directing Energy: Extraversion (E) and Introversion (I)

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Ways of Taking In or Gathering Information: Sensing (S) and Intuition (N)

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Ways of Making Decisions: Thinking (T) and Feeling (F)

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Organizing our Lives: Judging (J) and Perceiving (P)

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Psychological Type and the MBTI

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The Sixteen Types

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Using Type Knowledge to Help You at Work

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Personalizing Type

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How Not to Use Type at Work

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CHAPTER 2 COMMUNICATION AND CONFLICT

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Communication

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Communication Styles: What's Type Got to Do with It?

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Improving Your Communication Skills

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Additional Contributions of Type to Communication

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Conflict Resolution

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Type and Conflict

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CHAPTER 3 TIME MANAGEMENT

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Time Management in Action

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What's Your Time-Management Style?

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Time Management Defined

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Type and Time Management

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Adding Psychological Type to Time Management in Action

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Improving Your Time-Management Skills

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CHAPTER 4 MEETINGS

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Meeting Management in Action

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The Importance of Meeting Management

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Type and Meeting Management

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Adding Psychological Type to Meeting Management in Action

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Revisiting the Example

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Important Points to Remember

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CHAPTER 5 LEADING: BEING IN CHARGE

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Leaders We Have Known

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Some Leadership Styles

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FJ (ISFJ, ESFJ, INFJ, and ENFJ) Leaders

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TP (ISTP, ESTP, INTP, AND ENTP) Leaders

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TJ (ISTJ, ESTJ, INTJ, and ENTJ) Leaders

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FP (ISFP, INFP, ESFP, ENFP) Leaders

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Effective Decision-Making

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Questions to Aid Decision-Making

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Decision-Making Styles

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Enhancing Ways of Leading and Following

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CHAPTER 6 TEAMWORK

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A New Team Is Forming

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What Is a Team and How Does Type Impact Teamwork?

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Type and Our Team

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Effective Teams

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Team Process Issues

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Type and Working Agreements

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Team Relationship Issues

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Viewing Others from Our Own Perspective: Type Bias

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Warning Signs of Type Bias

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Tips for Dealing with Type Bias

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Analyzing Your Team

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If You Know the Types on Your Team

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Using Type Knowledge When You Don't Know People's Types

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Teams That Work

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Revisiting Our Team

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Tips for Teamwork

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CHAPTER 7 EXPLORING ANOTHER LEVEL OF TYPE

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The Importance of Balance

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Balance between Extraverting and Introverting

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Balance between Gathering Information and Making Decisions

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What Happens When We Don't Have Balance?

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The Importance of the Favorite Function: A Type's Core Identity

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The Favorite Functions of Each Type

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What Do These Eight Favorite Functions Look Like in Action?

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Cautions of Sterotyping

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Balancing the Dominant Function

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Type Development

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The Favorite Function in Childhood

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Balance Provided by the Second Favorite

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The Impact of Environment

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Midlife and Beyond

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Using Type Dynamics and Development at Work

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CHAPER 8 CHANGE

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A Change Is About to Take Place

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Current Models of Change

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The Change Process for Individuals

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1. Reasons for the Change

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2. The Role of the Past

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3. Decide Specifically What Needs to Be Changed

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4. Getting What You Need

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Example Revisited

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Moving Our Group Forward

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Dealing More Effectively with Organizational Change

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CHAPTER 9 STRESS

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Interaction of Type Preferences and Stress

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Extraversion -- Introversion

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Sensing -- Intuition

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Thinking -- Feeling

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Judging -- Perceiving

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Typical Work Acctivities and Type Preferences

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What Can You Do?

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Some Warning Signs of Stress: Type Exaggeration

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What Does Exaggeration Look Like in Different Types?

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Getting Back in Balance

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Extreme Stress: The "Grip" of the Inferior Function

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The Extraverts

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The Introverts

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A Recap: Important Points About Using Type in Stress Management

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Helping Yourself

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Dealing with Others Who Are Highly Stressed

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CHAPTER 10 MAKING THE MOST OF YOUR TYPE AT WORK

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Communication

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Conflict

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Time Management

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Meetings

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Leading

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Teamwork

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Change

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Stress

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Summary

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CONCLUSION

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Cautions in Applying Psychological Type

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Additional Resources

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Constructive Use of Differences: An Example

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NOTES

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