Leadership: Leading and Managing with Personality Type

This video gives a brief overview of the course and looks at personality and Type as a function of equality and diversity.

This lecture looks at personality and behaviour. It looks at how an understanding of personality type will help you work with some of the challenges that you face in the workplace.

This lecture explores the importance of self-awareness as a leader.  It is vital that you understand yourself before you start to look to understand others.  Type underpins self-awareness. 

This lecture explores why considerations around Type can help you as a leader in working a range of issues that you may face on a day to day basis.

This questionnaire is based on a personality framework that will help you explore your preferences for taking in information and making decisions. The framework also looks at where you prefer to focus your attention and how you prefer to live your life.

There are no right and wrong answers and all possible outcomes on the questionnaire are equally valid.

The questionnaire will take you about 25 minutes to complete; however, there is no time limit so you will be able to take as much time as you need.

Please try to answer the questions according to your natural preference. Think of yourself in a situation where there are no external pressures to act or feel in a particular way. Get yourself into a frame of mind in which you are able to make a free choice between the response options.

A look at the behavioural preferences identified by Carl Jung that were further researched and developed by Isabel Briggs Myers and Katharine Cook Briggs.

This booklet enables you to determine where you like to focus your attention (E or I), the way you like to look at things (S or N), the way you go about deciding things (T or F), and how you deal with the outer world (J or P). 

To get the best from this course, you will need this booklet as you work through the next four lectures.  The lectures will give you the chance to determine how clear you are on each of the preferences that we are looking at.  

This booklet is not interactive.  You will need to print the booklet and work with it manually as you watch the next four videos. 

Use the booklet to mark your clarity (how clear you are) on each preference scale so that you can build up an understanding of your personality type.  

Full instructions and a short description of each of the 16 personality types are given within the booklet.

This lecture will help you determine where you get your main source of energy from.

This lecture will help you to determine how you take in information from the world around you..

This lecture will help you to determine how you process information.

This lecture will help you to determine how you orientate yourself in the world.

Assessing your Type and some hints and tips when working with Type.

Any personality type can be an effective leader. Every type is going to do it a little bit differently. This booklet investigates how each type can lead.

This video looks at some of the areas that you can consider as a leader working with the preferences of other people.  These include character preferences, work activities, and perceptions, both positive and negative.

This video explores the character preferences, work activities and perceptions around the Extraversion and the Introversion preferences.

This video explores the character preferences, work activities and perceptions around the Sensing and the Intuition preferences.

This video explores the character preferences, work activities and perceptions around the Thinking and the Feeling preferences.

This video explores the character preferences, work activities and perceptions around the Judging and the Perceiving preferences.

Here are some further considerations around leading your team with Type.

Type is more than just the sum of the four preferences.  The four-letter Type is a shorthand way of giving information about the interaction of the mental functions and which ones you prefer to use first.

The Functional Pairs - also known as the Cognitive Functions - are involved in receiving information and then processing it and are made up of Sensing or Intuition and Thinking or Feeling. 

This video covers the perceiving function - the way that we take in information and how we perceive the world around us.   The perceiving function uses both the Sensing and the Intuition preferences.  In perception, we use both but one preference is preferred and is used before the other.

This video covers the judging function - the way that we process information and how we make our judgements.   The judging function uses both the Thinking and the Feeling preferences.  In making judgments, we use both but one preference is preferred and is used before the other.

This video considers how the Functional Pairs are expressed and what behaviours these can lead to.

This video investigates the characteristics of each of the Mental Functions and how they work in combination.

This video explores what each of the Mental Functions seek ad what they avoid.  This is very useful information when you are working and leading groups of people.

This video explores how you can communicate effectively with the Mental Functions using influence and persuasion.

This video explores what causes stress in people by considering their reactions to certain situations based upon their preferences.

Stress is a normal part of everyday life and needs to be considered positively when working with people.  However, everyone will react to stress in different ways.

This video explores how people with each preference react under stress and the behaviours that they express.

This video explores how Type and emotional intelligence are related.  They are interdependent and influence each other.

People often criticise Type based assessments as not being reliable because their Personality Type appears to have changed since they looked at it a few years ago.  What they overlook is that they may not have accurately determined their Type previously and that they may have changed.  This video investigates this in more detail.

In this video we explore the model of four passengers in car to explain the order of our four preferred mental functions and how they interact.

This video illustrate how the car model helps in understanding Type dynamics through a couple of examples.

This video explains why it can be difficult to assess someone's Dominant Function if they have an Introversion preference, purely through observation of their behaviour.

How do the mental functions fit within the emotional intelligence framework?  Within this lecture, we consider the links between the mental functions and the components of emotional intelligence.

This lecture gives an overview of the importance of the mental functions and reviews Introverted Sensing and Extraverted Sensing linking them both to the emotional intelligence framework.

This lecture gives a review of Introverted Intuition and Extraverted Intuition linking them both to the emotional intelligence framework.

This lecture gives a review of Introverted Thinking and Extraverted Thinking linking them both to the emotional intelligence framework.

This lecture gives a review of Introverted Feeling and Extraverted Feeling linking them both to the emotional intelligence framework.

This video is a review of Type Dynamics and emotional intelligence.  Within the video a couple of Type examples are presented to help you with your understanding of the link between the two constructs.

The Tertiary Function can be either Introverted or Extraverted depending on various circumstances making it's expression ambiguous.

The focus of the emotional intelligence capability of the Tertiary Function will be flexible enough to enable an Introverted or an Extraverted expression.

This video investigates in further detail how emotional intelligence influence the expression of Type. 

This booklet investigates how each type can work with their emotional intelligence, recognises their potential super-powers and how what happens when they are behaving in less than emotionally Intelligent ways - in other words, they are being emotionally unintelligent.

This workbook will give you more insights into working with preferences - your own and those of other people.

It will also help you to reflect upon what you have learnt about yourself through understanding Personality Type.

(If you are working with Type with members of your team, this workbook gives a very clear structure for a coaching session.)

This video explores how artificial intelligence intersects with personality and human behaviour, shaping the way we connect, learn, and lead.

This video highlights some further resources that are commercially available to support you around the application of Type.

One of the most frequent questions that I am asked is "How do I access my Udemy certificate?".  This video will help you if you are having issues downloading your Certificate of Completion.