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This week’s guest blogger is Beth Armkrecht Miller, CMC – Leadership Advisor, Coach and Vistage Chair.
In today’s world, email and texting are the ways many communications are delivered. These types of communication can provide you with clues to a person’s personality type within the Myers-Briggs framework. Having the ability to identify a person’s personality, will help enhance your communications with others by adapting your emails to the recipients preferences. It will decrease miscommunications and confusion.
Myers Briggs tool identifies personality preferences based on the interaction of four preference pairs – Extraversion/Introversion; Sensing/Intuition; Thinking/Feeling; and Judging/Perceiving. An individual’s type preferences are represented by one of sixteen four-letter types that describe the combinations of preferences. An example of this would be ENTP: Extroversion, Intuition, Thinking and Perceiving.
So what are the clues in an email that will help us to determine what type we are communicating with? First you need to understand what each preference means:
E/I Preference
Extraversion are those who prefer to focus on the outer world of people and activity.
Introversion are those who prefer to focus on their own inner world of ideas and experiences.
S/N Preference
Sensing are those who prefer to absorb facts and data that are real and tangible. They tend to focus on the past and present.
Intuition are those who prefer to absorb information by seeing the big picture, focusing on relationships and connections between facts. They tend to focus on the future.
T/F Preference
Thinking are those who prefer to look at the logical consequences of a choice or action. They are more objective than subjective.
Feeling likes to consider what is important to them and to others involved. They are more subjective than objective.
J/P Preference
Judging are those who prefer to like to live in a planned, scheduled, and orderly way, seeking to manage and regulate their lives.
Perceiving are those who prefer to live in a flexible, spontaneous way, seeking to experience and understand life, rather than control it.
Now that you’ve identified the type what is your next step?
Beth Armknecht Miller, of Atlanta, Georgia, is Founder and President of Executive Velocity, a leadership development coaching firm accelerating the leadership success of CEOs and business leaders. She is also Chair to two Vistage groups. She is certified in Myers Briggs and Hogan leadership assessment tools and is a Certified Managerial Coach by Kennesaw State University. Visit http://www.executive-velocity.com or http://executivevelocityblog.com or follow her on twitter @SrExecAdvisor..
