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Melissa Summer
Give the Gift of Personality Insight
What’s a gift sure to fit everyone? The gift of self-awareness! Learn more about gifting the official MBTI assessment in this blog.
Vanessa Bradford, MBTIonline Contributing Writer
Parenting and personality Q&A with Dr. Yvonne Nelson-Reid
During an episode of The Myers-Briggs Company Podcast, Dr. Yvonne Nelson-Reid shared how knowing your child’s personality type can improve the parent-child relationship and make life even more meaningful for both of you. This blog recaps the first half of the episode.
Vanessa Bradford
Personality type for kids — why it matters
Kids don’t come with an instruction manual. But there are some things that can help. This blog post explains the role that personality type plays in parenting and how to better understand your children’s preferences and behavior.
John Hackston
How to successfully live with your roommates according to your MBTI type
Sometimes sharing a house or apartment with others can feel harder than it should. Here’s how knowing about personality type can make roommate differences a little easier…
John Hackston
How Your MBTI Type Influences The Way You Parent
Becoming a parent is one of the biggest changes and challenges that many of us face in our lives. But whatever our intentions are and whatever other people think is "good" parenting, how you parent will also be influenced by our Myers-Briggs personality type.
Melissa Summer
K-Pop's NCT Dream, ISTJs and MBTI Personality Type
The K-Pop sensation NCT Dream just named their song, and third studio album, “ISTJ.” Learn more about the band, the song, and what the ISTJ and ENFP relationship the guys sing about would actually look like.
Vanessa Bradford, MBTIonline Contributing Writer
Introverts, your natural leadership capabilities are calling
The best leaders and managers use self-awareness to boost team success. This blog lists some of the natural leadership characteristics of the eight introverted MBTI personality types.
Vanessa Bradford
Tend to your relationship garden with the MBTI tool
Like a garden, relationships need to be watered and tended to regularly. While there’s bound to be a metaphorical thorn or two along the way, new growth happens when you plant and prune with intention. One of the most fruitful ways to tend to your “relationship garden” is to learn about personality type through the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI) assessment. If it’s not too mulch to ask, you could always listen to episode eight of The Myers-Briggs Company Podcast...
Vanessa, MBTIonline Contributing Writer
From manager to exec: How Extraverts can use the MBTI assessment for leadership development
If you’re a first-level manager, chances are you’ve worked hard to get to your position—and you’ll continue to climb the ladder. In this blog we explore the four phases of leadership development for extraverted personality types and how to navigate them well.
Vanessa, MBTIonline Contributing Writer
The secret to good relationships? Know your MBTI personality type
During episode eight of The Myers-Briggs Company Podcast, Michael Segovia shared how self-awareness and knowledge of MBTI personality type can lead to better relationships. This blog recaps the first half of the episode.
Vanessa, MBTIonline Contributing Writer
From manager to executive: How Extraverts can use the MBTI assessment for leadership development
If you’re a first-level manager, chances are you’ve worked hard to get to your position—and you’ll continue to climb the ladder. In this blog we explore the four phases of leadership development for extraverted personality types and how to navigate them well.
Vanessa, MBTIonline Contributing Writer
Planning a vacation? MBTI type dynamics can help
We all use the Thinking or Feeling processes to evaluate information and make decisions. But it’s a lot more nuanced than that, thanks to something called type dynamics. In this blog we explore the eight Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®) patterns of mental activity and how they impact planning a vacation.
Vanessa, MBTIonline Contributing Writer
How to reduce your carbon footprint, according to your personality type
A greener planet requires us to get outside our comfort zone and live more sustainably. Depending on your MBTI type, this could look like leading a clean-up crew or quietly lending your administrative skills. This blog explains why saving the planet is so important, and how different personality types can help.
Vanessa, MBTIonline Contributing Writer
Here’s what motivates each Myers-Briggs personality type
When we look at motivation through the lens of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®) assessment, it all boils down to preferences. Read this blog to find out how your MBTI type affects what motivates you.
Vanessa, MBTIonline Contributing Writer
How to use your MBTI personality type to save the planet
Environmental sustainability initiatives are even more powerful when you know how to align it with your unique strengths. This blog offers some insight into what kind of initiatives motivate green action based on your MBTI personality preferences.
Vanessa, MBTIonline Contributing Writer
Your MBTI® stress questions, answered
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When our very own Melissa Summer and Michael Segovia went live on Instagram to chat about stress and personality type, they covered a lot of ground—including a special Q&A session.
Vanessa, MBTIonline Contributing Writer
Does your MBTI personality type affect how stressed you get?
What does the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®) have to do with stress? MBTI experts Melissa and Micheal Segovia went live on Instagram to explore how different personality types handle stress.
Vanessa, MBTIonline Contributing Writer
Burnout in an “always-on” culture: how your MBTI personality type can prevent future stress
How many times have you stressed about a job-related task in the last week? In 2019, The Myers-Briggs Company surveyed 1,116 people to ask about their personality type, work/life balance, technology habits, and more. And here’s what we found.
Melissa Summer
Stress triggers and how to deal with stress according to your MBTI type
Depending on your MBTI personality type, you probably are stressed by things that others with a different personality type are perfectly fine with. Read this blog to learn more about how your MBTI type affects your stress triggers and response.
Vanessa, MBTIonline Contributing Writer
Your top Myers-Briggs personality type relationship questions answered
How can MBTI personality type help strengthen relationships? Do people with the same type get along better? Should you put your MBTI type in your dating profile? Read to learn more!