Myers Briggs Type Indicator

Trait and Factor enhancing Contemporary?

MBTI in place to aid students in identifying their talents, learning style, motivation, personality traits, how they relate to others, leadership quality, values and beliefs, adaptability to change, decision-making, problem solving and numeracy skills.

Profiles of individuals are generated to give insight into personality and talents, generating potential career paths – whilst reading through a profile one thing struck me; growth areas are also identified, encouraging individuals to adopt new approaches and behaviours for alternative outcomes to enhance talent and effectiveness! Just like aspects of counselling, where client’s are asserted to
re-tell their ‘stories’ considering alternative behaviours and results.

Not only does the MBTI profiling for success highlight potential areas for improvements, it classifies areas of character where individuals can be more aware of ‘self’. This giving the individual a deeper insight into their personality and how to adapt for each giving situation - thus maximising impact and performance or effectiveness in group and individual interactions.

Utilised alongside guidance, MBTI gives the guidance practitioner a good starting point from which to explore ideas from the profile with the client. They can agree action points to aid development for desired career paths. Whether it is developing abilities, skills, or confidence this will assert the client to develop and progress for employability.

The practitioner could use the profile to reflect points to the client whilst they tell their ‘story’. They could reflect strengths and agree ‘reasoning’ and ‘meaning’ with the client. The practitioner could highlight alternative approaches for desired learning and achievements in-line with those reflected in the client profile, this would aid the practitioner in the evaluation the profile accuracy.

......guidance at the fore-front of facilitating clients through modern approaches ‘narrative’ whilst reflecting on traditional theory, arguably reflecting on contemporary theories also such as ‘constructivism’ how individual defines and perceives ‘self’ and relate to others at a personal and social level, how they interact and are influences in various systems and create their own
opportunities – happenstance!