Personality Style Contest

Based on the Session #1 evaluations, you all learned a lot about personality styles and had some fun at the same time. In fact, I've received several emails from excited Class IX participants explaining how everything makes sense once their significant other took the personality preference analysis.



To refresh your memory, the Myers-Briggs analysis reports preferences based on four dichotomies. The first assesses preference for how one gets their energy - extraversion or introversion. The second assesses preference for how one prefers to learn/take in information - sensing or intuition. The third assesses preference for how one prefers to make decisions - thinking or feeling. The fourth assesses preference for how one prefers to interact with the outer world.



Given your new or expanded understanding of personality preferences and your knowledge of me, albeit limited, I am challenging you via a contest to guess my personality style. You already know that I'm an extrovert. In fact, my E-I preference is 22-0. Two of my other dichotomies are similarly skewed in one direction, but the other is very close.



The prize for the contest will remain a mystery until the October session. It will be given to the person who guesses my other 3 dichotomies. If there is a tie, the person who guesses the dichotomy that is neutral will win. So, please blog what you think my preference is and which preference is neutral. To make it fun, I even encourage you to explain why you guessed the particular preferences (and reinforce your learning from September).



I'll only give one hint. We have a ton of temperaments in the class that are NF. Folks who share my temperament are prone to cause NFs to cry. Penny Tank, the UWEX 4-H Educator, is an NF. When I started in Waupaca County, it took me two months of testing how to say things in an NF manner so she wouldn't cry during staff meetings. This is the power of understanding this stuff.

Also, I've inserted a video into this blog post that shows a great example of the introverted preference during session 1. These are the spouses of 3 participants who were asked to comment on their ideal vacation.



Good Luck!