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Это один из старейших советов в мире, но до сих пор остается одним из лучших. Знание того, что вы можете делать, что вам нравится делать и как вам нравится это делать, - это отправная точка для поиска подходящего места для себя. Понимание того, как ваша личность и стиль работы влияют на вас, может привести вас к пониманию личностей и стилей работы, что сделает вас более эффективным менеджером.

Важно знать свой собственный стиль работы и иметь словарный запас для размышлений и разговоров о стилях работы. Наиболее широко используемым инструментом для определения вашего типа личности и стиля работы является индикатор типа Майерс-Бриггс. MBTI был разработан Кэтрин Бриггс и ее дочерью Изабель Бриггс Майерс. В основу своей работы они положили теории швейцарского психолога Карла Густава Юнга. В своей классической форме MBTI представляет собой упражнение с бумагой и карандашом, выполнение которого занимает около получаса и должно быть оценено квалифицированным фасилитатором.

“It's not a test,” stresses Bob McAlpine. “It's an indicator, a wonderful tool for helping people understand who they are and identifying their primary sources of energy.”

Макэлпайн - президент Type Resources, компании в Луисвилле, которая подбирает людей для администрирования MBTI и аналогичных инструментов. Макалпайн глубоко знает MBTI и подтверждающие исследования, а его терпение в объяснении теории и практики типирования личности безгранично.

“Jung's theory identified eight types of mental process,” he says. “Each of us can use them all, but there are those we prefer. If we see other people using those we don't like, we say they're weird. Myers-Briggs lets us say they're not weird, they're just different. Then we can begin to figure out how we can work with them with respect.”

Personality type affects all our interactions with others. “In business, senior managers may not be comfortable talking about values,” McAlpine says. “But if I'm a CEO and I have difficulty telling you what's important to me, how can you be equipped to make the best decisions — decisions I'd be most comfortable with? Or how about a board of directors that has decided the CEO has to go. What brought that about? I wonder how much of it we could bring right back to typology. Turnover rates, retention issues – it might be interesting what organizations might find if they could explore what's here.”

Type – if we know how to decode it – gives us a model, he says, for how we might expect a person to prefer to use those different mental processes. “It's not pigeonholing,” says McAlpine. “It would be unethical for me to give you the MBTI and then say you prefer these processes so you should do this or that. But you can look at the results and say, ‘Yeah, this really fits,' or ‘No, this isn't exactly me.'”

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“Any person can be successful at any job,” says McAlpine, “yet some people are more comfortable – have a more positive experience – at one job than another. If we look at the mental processes used in the job and the processes preferred by the person, there's a high correlation. We're not talking skill, but if interests match requirements, people are more successful.”

The Myers-Briggs methodology outlines eight types of mental processes that provide a foundation for a personal work style. If you understand Myers-Briggs, you can use your knowledge to identify this process language, and respond in that process, according to McAlpine. “If we're communicating using one process, we can even move to another process and continue to communicate. But I've got to be careful if I try to move you, because I might pull you out of your comfort zone. There's an energy flow. If I'm in my comfort zone, I'm gaining energy, but if not, I'm losing energy.”

This can be applied to all kinds of communication, says McAlpine — job interviews, building teams, training situations. “When I go for an interview, if I know the language that will be expected, I can prepare myself,” he says. “When I'm coaching with a subordinate, what language is appropriate? What's my preference? Do I need to shift my language and approach to be more effective? If I'm a CEO going into a meeting, what am I attempting to convey, who am I speaking to, what's the appropriate language?”

This means using Myers-Briggs types flexibly, he points out – to consciously choose to work within particular processes to match needs, not to say, “I am me, therefore I speak this way.” If you're working with a team, you need to be prepared to deal with all the associated emotions and resistance that gets so close to who we are.

“The same thing applies to strategic planning,” he says. “At a certain place in the planning process, we need to pull more from some processes than others. We need to understand that some are easier for us to access than others, that what comes from some processes may be easier to share with others, and from other processes more difficult.”

По его словам, для отдельных людей наиболее важным является использование ваших знаний о ваших предпочтительных процессах и альтернативах, чтобы вы использовали более целостный подход и принимали лучшее решение.

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Myers-Briggs can be very useful in considering career and job changes. McAlpine points out that most of us have had jobs that are a bad fit. If we had been equipped to analyze the situation going in, we might have been able to say, “It's a great job, but there are things we don't align on, and it's not who I am.”

But there is danger, he says, in treating what we know about our personality type as a given, fixed and unalterable. We change and develop, he says, and we must recognize that in ourselves as well. “Jung identified these processes and said life is about learning to use all of them, about moving toward wholeness,” says McAlpine.

McAlpine stresses that people do change. We can learn other processes, just as we learn other languages, and become comfortable in them. And our understanding can help smooth the transitions: “From a holistic perspective, people might find as they reach mid-career that they want to move to other things. They find that typology gives them a tremendous opportunity to understand what's going on as they see their interest shift.”

 

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