Types and Teams: Understanding and

Using the HumanmetricsJung Typology Test

BUS 302: The Gateway Experience

Uses of the Typology Test

Better

understand your own and others

behavior in teams.
Develop a language for talking about
individual differences in an objective
manner.
Understand how individuals different
ways of approaching a problem can
improve team performance.

Understanding the Test

Reflects

back what you say about

yourself in a systematic way.
Profiles what you prefer to do, not
what you can do.
Letters represent ends of one scale,
your actual score is somewhere
along the scale.

Type Indicators
1st

Letter

Energizing: Orientation of your energy

either:

Extroversion: towards the outside world,

people activities and things

Introversion: toward the world inside

you, emotions and impressions.

Type Indicators
2nd

Letter

Attending: what a person pays attention

to, either:

Sensing: noticing what is actual, taking

in information through the five senses,
focus on specifics first.
INtuition: noticing what might be, take in
information through a 6th sense, focus
on the overall pattern first.

Type Indicators
3rd

Letter

Deciding: how a person makes decisions,

either
Thinking: preference for structuring
information to decide in a logical
objective way

Feeling: preference for structuring

information to decide in a personal,

values oriented way.

Type Indicators

4th Letter
Living: orientation to the outside world,
how you deal with life: either

Judging: preferring a planned organized

life

Perceiving: preferring a spontaneous,

flexible life

Creating Teams Using the Indicators

Homogeneous
Groups
Start fast.
Reach agreement
easily.
People feel
comfortable.
Generate fewer
creative solutions.
Tend to have
collective blind spots.

Heterogeneous
Groups
Start Slow.
Have more conflict
and have difficulty.
reaching agreement
People feel less
comfortable.
Generate more
creative solutions.
Catch errors and
over sights.