Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Essay

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is a personality report that gives you a better understanding of how to react in different situations based on five personality dimensions. Knowing your personality characteristics will help you better understand your actions, feelings, and relationships with others. My type was ISFJ introverting, sensing, feeling and judging. This suggests that focus my energy inward toward thoughts and ideas, process information in an exact, detailed and literal manner, I make value-based decisions based on empathy and compassion and I approach life in a planned, organized and orderly approach (Golden, 2011). These results coincide with the way I react in different situations. This was by far one of the more detailed assessments

Personal competence and self awareness were the highest for me in comparison to the other scores. My self awareness is above average. With the career I intend to hold in the future as a healthcare administrator facing many conflicted situations, I will need to make sure I am managing my reactions to situations and people correctly. My overall score for social competence was a surprise to me in one category of social awareness. I was on 1 point off from being in the category of this is something that needs work. I honestly do not agree with the score. I have always been known to have a good sense of how others are feeling. I can tell that something is eating at someone or their mood is off. I am curious to know if only one or many questions I answered on this assessment put me in this category. Relationship management is a huge area of work for me. When it comes to handling conflict, emotions get the best of me in certain situations. This being the second to lowest on the chart is just realization. Working to build and strengthen these skills will help with my future career which will involve working with groups of people as a leader in the healthcare