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Understanding Personality Types at Work
Role Play
Rating: 4.4 out of 5(8,872 ratings)
25,955 students

Understanding Personality Types at Work

Discovering Personalities | Enhance Collaboration, Productivity and Communication | MBTI Insights
Created byRobin Hills
Last updated 8/2025
English

What you'll learn

  • Assess your own Personality Type and what this means in both your private and professional life
  • Develop an understanding of the value of the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and its applications in work.
  • Recognise ways to appreciate, value, and work more effectively with all sixteen personality types
  • Discover how to build deeper relationships through common understanding and improved communication
  • Identify applications in team building, communication, change, decision making and problem solving

Course content

4 sections24 lectures1h 27m total length
  • Introduction to Understanding Personality Types at Work3:05

    Introduction to this course on working with personality type with a look at the course learning outcomes.

  • Being Emotionally Intelligent about this Course on Udemy4:09

    This video is critical to watch as it provides valuable insights to help you get the most from this course on the Udemy platform.  It also helps address any potential criticisms and negative reactions through the application of emotional intelligence.

  • Activity Booklet: Reflecting about this Personality Course0:56

    Before we start the course, here is a practical activity that encourages you to think about why you are taking the course and what you want to get from it.

  • The Challenges of Self-Awareness and Emotional Intelligence4:10

    Becoming more self-aware and getting insights into their personality can be very challenging for some people. Often they react by getting defensive, apportioning blame and criticising others. This video explores some of the challenges when working with others resistant to developing their self-awareness and their emotional intelligence.

  • Working with Personality Types6:12

    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.

  • Learning Outcomes of the Course2:00

    This video covers the learning outcomes of this course that is focused on helping your to get the most from understanding Personality Types at work.

  • Activity Booklet: Personality Type Indicator to Help you Assess your Type1:40

    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.

Requirements

  • The course will be of interest to you if you are looking to learn more about yourself.
  • You will be a member of a team made up of a range of people.
  • You will be a leader or a manager responsible for a number of projects involving people.
  • You will be interested in learning more about personality type.
  • You will have a willingness to complete the practical activities to grow and develop your self-awareness and build your relationship skills.

Description

Different isn’t necessarily difficult.  

We encounter different types of people every day.  Everyone is unique.  However, broadly speaking everyone can be categorised into different types according to their preferences and how they use them.  

This short course is a standalone course for anyone interested in understanding about different personality types.  It will give you insights to your own preferences and how these build into your personality type.  

You will discover how the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is used to gain a different perspective of yourself.  Personality preferences are investigated, discussed, and correlated with various situations involving people.  Additional, specific study methodologies and assessment techniques are shared so that you can build upon your learning and understanding of Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), if you are interested in taking this further.

Understanding preferences and how they are expressed will help you to appreciate differences, work with these and communicate better with others.  It compliments other courses that explore emotional intelligence in more depth.

The course covers the Jungian Theory of Personality Types looking at how you prefer to get your energy (Extraversion / Introversion), how you take in information (Sensing / Intuition), and how you process information (Thinking / Feeling).  

Jung's work was further developed by Katharine Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers to add a further dimension to look at how you choose to live your life (Judging / Perception). 

What you will learn:

  • The four preference scales defined by Jung and Myers / Briggs that make up the MBTI

  • Understanding personality and personality types

  • How you can work better with people who have different preferences to yours

You will become aware of the dynamics and patterns natural to each person's way of seeing, thinking, feeling and responding to the world.  

Every personality type has its own specific way of communicating.  Through this course you will expand your understanding of personality and communication to build up better relationships with your team, your manager, your clients - in fact, anyone with whom your regularly interact with.  You will learn how to build trust, establish rapport, and work comfortably and productively with any personality type.

Within the course, you have the chance to complete a questionnaire focused on determining your preferences.  Completing this practical activity will enable you to gain some insights into your Type.  As you progress through the course, you are able to check how clear you are with each preference to give you a deeper understanding of your own type.

Every person taking and completing the course has the opportunity to receive a detailed report based on their Self-Assessed Type giving insights into their strengths and liabilities as well as how they communicate, work in teams and respond to stress.

This course will, also, be of interest to you if you have completed a Myers Briggs Type Indicator or any other Personality Type assessment in the past and would like a refresher.  You may have discovered your Type through a work-based training programme, by completing a questionnaire or through general interest.  Your Personality Type consists of four letters.  It all made sense at the time, but you have forgotten what it all means and how relevant it can be to how you engage with other people.

There are four practical activities within the course that support you as you develop your understanding of Type.  This includes a questionnaire to determine your Type and worksheets that are designed to check and valid these results to give further information about who you are and your behavioural preferences.

This course will, also, be of interest to you if you lead or manage a team and are looking at ways to build understanding and develop relationships leading to more rewarding interactions and high performance.  It will give you an understanding of the relevance of Type and how it can be put to work.  

Within the course, you will be put in contact with world-renown experts in the application of Jungian Type that will enable you to gain further knowledge, experience and qualifications around Type.

The course is being continually refined and updated to ensure it remains current and relevant.


All PDFs can be completed online and are Section 508 / ADA Accessibility compliant.

All videos are High Definition recorded in 1080p.

All videos have grammatically correct English captions.

Includes an intercative role play based on Personality Types.

Latest update - June 2025


Learning Outcomes

  1. Assess your own Personality Type (MBTI) and what this means in both your private and professional life

  2. Develop an understanding of the value of the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and its applications in work

  3. Recognise ways to appreciate, value, and work more effectively with all sixteen personality types

  4. Discover how to build deeper relationships through common understanding and improved communication

  5. Identify applications in team building, communication, change, decision making and problem solving

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Who this course is for:

  • Anyone who wants to understand themselves better through self-awareness.
  • Anyone interested in finding out about personality types and the best way to communicate with each.
  • Anyone wanting to understand how others behave and how to best interact with them.