http://blog.unfoldingyourlifevision.com/2007/08/15/whats-your-type/ Jennifer Lee, ACC, CPCC Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:10:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://blog.unfoldingyourlifevision.com/2007/08/15/whats-your-type/#comment-195 Marilyn Sun, 11 Nov 2007 12:23:18 +0000 http://blog.unfoldingyourlifevision.com/2007/08/15/whats-your-type/#comment-195 I instantly recoiled when I saw MBTI... ;) Michelle at Tangled Wings recently did a generous thing. She's been writing about blogging and what it means for her. And she's been writing about comments (a complex issue for all of us). She wrote a post asking her readers to leave a link to a post that was meaningful to them, but didn't get a lot of comments. A post where they felt they really wanted to be seen and heard. My link was to a 2-years-old post about roles...and labels. So I guess this recoiling at labeling is a constant for me. :) In my Portland years I carved out a nice little freelance temping thing for myself...and one of the places I did several stints (as training coordinator, helping to organize events, etc.) was in an Organizational Development group at a large corporation. I always felt like one of the OD Consultants didn't like me--she was always rather gruff and short with me. And then one day, she said she knew EXACTLY what my type was, and challenged me to take an abbreviated Myers-Briggs. I can't even tell you now how it came out (because I LOATHE the idea of being labeled and tried immediately to forget it)...but at least two areas were the opposite of what she'd written down in her prediction. She was shocked...until I brought in a Polaroid of what my home desk looked like (the opposite of my anally neat work one). She was a little nicer to me after that. Maybe she just didn't like the type she thought I was. ;) I instantly recoiled when I saw MBTI… Michelle at Tangled Wings recently did a generous thing. She’s been writing about blogging and what it means for her. And she’s been writing about comments (a complex issue for all of us). She wrote a post asking her readers to leave a link to a post that was meaningful to them, but didn’t get a lot of comments. A post where they felt they really wanted to be seen and heard. My link was to a 2-years-old post about roles…and labels. So I guess this recoiling at labeling is a constant for me. In my Portland years I carved out a nice little freelance temping thing for myself…and one of the places I did several stints (as training coordinator, helping to organize events, etc.) was in an Organizational Development group at a large corporation. I always felt like one of the OD Consultants didn’t like me–she was always rather gruff and short with me. And then one day, she said she knew EXACTLY what my type was, and challenged me to take an abbreviated Myers-Briggs. I can’t even tell you now how it came out (because I LOATHE the idea of being labeled and tried immediately to forget it)…but at least two areas were the opposite of what she’d written down in her prediction. She was shocked…until I brought in a Polaroid of what my home desk looked like (the opposite of my anally neat work one). She was a little nicer to me after that. Maybe she just didn’t like the type she thought I was.

]]> http://blog.unfoldingyourlifevision.com/2007/08/15/whats-your-type/#comment-16 Jamie Wed, 22 Aug 2007 14:17:24 +0000 http://blog.unfoldingyourlifevision.com/2007/08/15/whats-your-type/#comment-16 Well, no wonder we get along so well. We share the NFP perspective of the world! As for the E/I, this score has fluctuated for me over time and most recently I am right on the line. Have you done the StrengthsFinder assessment? I have found it so useful and many of my clients have as well. Well, no wonder we get along so well. We share the NFP perspective of the world! As for the E/I, this score has fluctuated for me over time and most recently I am right on the line. Have you done the StrengthsFinder assessment? I have found it so useful and many of my clients have as well.

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