
Introduction to this course on working with personality type with a look at the course learning outcomes.
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.
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.
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.
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 video covers the learning outcomes of this course that is focused on helping your to get the most from understanding Personality Types at work.
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 to determine what energises you and how you get your energy.
(NB The spelling of "Extraversion" is not the commonly used version but the version widely used in psychology. Extra is the Latin prefix for outside and extravert, as originally used (and spelled) by Jung, means someone who is turned outward.)
This lecture will help you to determine how you take in information from the outside world.
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.
There are 16 Personality Types identified by looking at the four behavioural preferences. This means that you are going to be one of 16 Types, yet everyone is an individual with the capability to adapt and change according to circumstances.
Type is often criticised as "putting people into boxes" but this, itself, is a simplistic understanding of what Type is and how it works. This lesson addresses this criticism giving you a better understanding of why we look at 16 Types and why considering people being confined to boxes is inherently wrong.
This lesson gives you some ways that you can consider to further your understanding of the Type preferences and get to explore it at a deeper level.
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.)
There are many people who criticise Type and its use. Often these are unjustified and unfair. This lesson gives some insights around refuting their arguments.
Any personality type can be an effective leader. Every type is going to do it a little bit differently. This booklet looks at how each type can lead.
This lesson goes into more detail about the four mental functions and how these make up the Functional Pairs. It gives more information about each pair looking at specific characteristics and behaviours, how these arise and how these can be used to develop emotional intelligence.
This video highlights some further resources that are commercially available to support you around the application of Type.
This is a practical activity to conclude this personality course. It requires you to consider your goals and objectives for taking the course that you set for yourself at the beginning of the course.
This video will help you if you are having issues accessing your Certificate of Completion.
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
Assess your own Personality Type (MBTI) 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
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