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• 2024
  • March (3)
    • Resolving Internal Conflicts
    • MBTI-centered Leadership Development Helps 16,000 Nurses Improve Patient Care
    • The Big Picture and Conflict Management
  • February (4)
    • The Avoiding Culture in Organizations
    • Can MBTI training help a criminal justice organization function better?
    • Key Workplace Trends of 2024 Affecting Talent Development
    • Cultural norms and conflict modes
  • January (1)
    • How Australia Post used MBTI personality type to build trust and increase productivity
• 2023
  • December (4)
    • Myers Briggs Test Online
    • World Introvert Day: Introversion in-depth
    • The MBTI® Step II™ Assessment - Uncovering the DNA of personality type
    • Can you be an extraverted Introvert?
  • November (6)
    • How to use the MBTI assessment with the Strong assessment
    • Why knowing your personality type is critical to a growth mindset
    • Should personality assessments be used in hiring?
    • How personality type affects team performance and job satisfaction
    • The Psychology of Leadership
    • Why self-awareness is not enough
  • October (3)
    • People have forgotten how to work with each other
    • Career Transitions and Job Fit
    • Why and how innovative organizations welcome conflict
  • September (5)
    • Uncover the (in)visible elements of team success
    • Parenting and Personality Type
    • Leadership wake-up call: how’s your team’s orientation?
    • To build better teams, start by building trust
    • The worst thing about teams? Poor leaders
  • August (7)
    • Targeted Leadership Development and Succession Planning through CPI 260 Certification
    • Working Across Cultures
    • Enhancing communication in teams
    • Can you pick up 3 pieces of litter?
    • Unlocking Team and Leadership Potential through FIRO Certification
    • Awards Spotlight: The Myers-Briggs Company
    • Overcoming team communication challenges
  • July (3)
    • Psychological Needs of Teams
    • Harnessing the power of personality type through MBTI Certification
    • Personality in the news
  • June (4)
    • The Myers-Briggs Company Welcomes Guest Speaker Laila El-Metoui for Pride Month
    • Happiness and profit are synergistic
    • How stress and personality type affect leader’s risk tolerance & decision-making
    • All about the new Strong 244 career and interest assessment
  • May (2)
    • New Strong career assessment predicts potential major satisfaction and job satisfaction
    • How to foster an inclusive culture in a diverse organization
  • April (3)
    • Essential skills for uncertain times
    • MBTI Type & Research in the News
    • Building leadership skills from home through interpersonal needs
  • March (3)
    • Three types of workplace conflict – and a tool to help resolve them
    • To be an inclusive leader, you need to understand and respect personality preferences
    • SF Achievers Charity Partnership: Engagement and Impact
  • February (3)
    • In-person development and the importance of human synchronization
    • Measuring the behaviors of successful, inclusive leaders with the FIRO-B tool
    • Inclusion is a priority, but how do leaders actually become inclusive?
  • January (6)
    • MBTI personality type and relationships
    • Does the MBTI assessment work across cultures?
    • How can you help managers develop an inclusive workplace for employees?
    • The Myers-Briggs Company & MBTI assessment in the news – top articles from 2022
    • Four ways to help employees manage the ‘always on' culture
    • Introverts in conflict: what we learned in 2022
• 2022
  • December (3)
    • How those with an Introversion preference tend to manage and deal with conflict
    • Will Gen Z usher in a new generation of work-related conflict?
    • Inclusive Leadership
  • November (4)
    • Burnout
    • Are personalities permanent? Can your personality type change?
    • The psychological, emotional, and financial value of training & development
    • Use conflict as a health check for your team
  • October (7)
    • Finding a Career with Purpose
    • The New TKI® Team Report
    • What are the new sources of conflict at work?
    • How to build a more effective hybrid workplace
    • Get the latest research on conflict at work
    • Conflict at work: What are your options?
    • Galderma Skincare Uses the MBTI® Tool to Navigate Major Company Change
  • September (2)
    • Connecting with the people you lead
    • SFA scholar talks about internship with The Myers-Briggs Company
  • August (4)
    • Psychology of Change
    • Leadership, Extraversion & Introversion
    • Conflict Management
    • Introducing The Myers-Briggs Company Podcast
  • June (1)
    • Celebrating Pride Month with The Myers-Briggs Company
  • May (2)
    • Were you asked if you wanted to go back to the office?
    • Social contracts, returning to the office and retaining your people in the new hybrid workplace
  • April (1)
    • Why inclusion is the key to diversity
  • March (5)
    • Another way to look at stress
    • Available now: Psychology of change in the hybrid workplace
    • International Women’s Day: Increasing awareness, supporting, and connecting
    • The Myers-Briggs Company Stands with Ukraine and Its People
    • Using interpersonal needs to make the hybrid model work for teams
  • February (3)
    • Why unconscious bias is bad for your business
    • The Myers-Briggs Company celebrates Black History Month
    • How to develop high potential people using MBTI personality insights
  • January (1)
    • Inclusion: who's buying?
• 2021
  • December (4)
    • Introversion 2.0: Why we need to reshape the way we work
    • Holiday stress & personality: Tips for each MBTI type
    • Using personality assessments for team building
    • Master of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator: Dr. Naomi Quenk
  • November (1)
    • From HiPo new employee to rock star producer
  • October (2)
    • What are the best tools and training materials for DEI initiatives?
    • What’s stopping leaders being inclusive?
  • September (1)
    • Inclusion: Can your business afford not to be inclusive?
  • June (4)
    • Four ways you can improve your remote leadership
    • What Pride means to me
    • Pride Month: celebrating diversity this month and every month
    • To build or not to build - Is this the question for team leaders?
  • May (1)
    • Can you trust the MBTI assessment?
  • April (1)
    • Show your feeling side—and be a better leader in 2021
  • March (3)
    • Governance and the B Corp™ mission
    • Response to anti-Asian hate crimes and a call for social justice
    • Addressing the inaccuracies in ‘Persona’ about the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®) assessment
  • February (2)
    • 7 research-backed ways employee well-being affects your company’s performance
    • How to address criticism of the Myers-Briggs® Type Indicator—resources, videos, and more
  • January (4)
    • What's your financial personality?
    • MBTI certification (from the comfort of my couch)
    • Patrick Lencioni on team trust, vulnerability, and the MBTI® assessment
    • The Myers-Briggs Company stands for democracy
• 2020
  • December (1)
    • Personality and perception during the COVID-19 crisis
  • November (1)
    • Celebrating the largest voter turnout in US history
  • September (2)
    • The Myers-Briggs is no fad -- it’s a research-based instrument that delivers results
    • Diversity and inclusion...and personality?
  • August (1)
    • Leading while Black and Introverted
  • July (2)
    • Survivor guilt and the aftermath of lockdown
    • Use the platinum rule for better workplace relationships
  • June (3)
    • Self Awareness, Leadership and Organizational Success
    • Black Lives Matter
    • Is "work-life balance" just a myth?
  • May (4)
    • 27 Tools Business Leaders Should Know About
    • Missing this one thing makes team collaboration impossible
    • Inclusion, Diversity and Personality: Where Should Organizations Focus Most?
    • Is Personality Permanent?
  • April (6)
    • Are Leaders More Stressed Than Everyone Else?
    • Earth Month, Air Pollution and Quarantine
    • Trust in Companies - What Happens When You Go Virtual?
    • For Stronger Workplace Relationships, Use the Platinum Rule
    • Remote Working Tips from a Psychologist
    • People Need People! Get More Out of Remote Working
  • March (5)
    • Turning Self-awareness into Action: Put the MBTI® Framework in Your Pocket
    • Building trust through transparency
    • Gender Equality, Diversity, Leadership and International Women's Day
    • Why is Self-awareness Important for Leadership
    • Top 10 Leadership Development Books
  • January (4)
    • End your Hiring Headache
    • A Psychologist, Leadership Coach & Psychometric Expert’s Advice for Introverted Managers
    • Leadership’s First Commandment from Harvard Business Review
    • Introverts and Leadership - World Introvert Day
• 2019
  • December (1)
    • Do Ambiverts Exist?
  • October (3)
    • How Ping Pong Strategy Improves Your Workplace Communication
    • How to Make Virtual Work Work for You
    • The Changing Shape of Teams and Google’s Project Aristotle
  • September (1)
    • Self-Awareness is Critical to Your Company's Success
  • August (3)
    • Talent Development and Diversity in Dubai with the MBTI Tool
    • Understanding Motivation for More Effective Team Behavior
    • The "Freakishly Accurate" Leadership Assessment
  • June (2)
    • How to Motivate the People You Manage
    • 5 Takeaways for Managers from ATD 2019
  • April (2)
    • Happier Employees Build Organizational Success
    • 6 Things Managers and Executives Can Do to Improve Company Culture
  • March (1)
    • The Psychology of Change
  • February (1)
    • Harnessing Personality Assessments to Predict Current and Future Job Performance
• 2018
  • October (1)
    • MBTI Facts & Common Criticisms
  • August (1)
    • How Association Leaders Can Use Assertiveness Gracefully
  • July (1)
    • We’re All Innovators Pt II: Bringing the Vision to Fruition
  • June (2)
    • We’re All Innovators...But We Do It According to Type
    • Help Our Research Team & Be First to Receive Study Results
  • May (4)
    • Leveraging Your Personality Type for Stress Management During the Job Interview Process
    • For an Authentic, Effective Job Interview, You Must First Understand Your Own Personality Type (Part II)
    • For an Authentic, Effective Job Interview, You Must First Understand Your Own Personality Type
    • Effects and Causes of Conflict Among Employees
• 2017
  • December (1)
    • Confidence, Extraversion & Understanding – What Helps You The Most?
  • November (3)
    • 10 Books About the MBTI Tool and Type That You Should Read in 2018
    • MBTI Step II Facets: Traditional or Original and the Holiday Season
    • MBTI Step II Facets: New Experiences for the Experiential or the Theoretical
  • October (3)
    • MBTI Step II Facets: Practical–Conceptual & the Importance of Ideas
    • Navigating the Labyrinth of Stress: Interpersonal Needs and Personality Preferences
    • MBTI Step II Facets: Realistic–Imaginative
  • September (4)
    • Fortune 10 Senior OD Consultant Talks about CPI 260 Certification Experience
    • MBTI Type, Age, and Occupation Play a Significant Role in Workplace Happiness [Whitepaper]
    • The Importance of the Order of the Sensing–Intuition Facets
    • MBTI Step II Facets: Tough–Tender
  • August (3)
    • MBTI Step II Facets: Critical–Accepting
    • MBTI Step II Thinking-Feeling Facets: The Importance of Facet Order
    • Team Building with the MBTI Step II Thinking-Feeling Facets
  • July (4)
    • Using Personal Assessment Tools to Chart Your Path [Video]
    • MBTI Step II Facets: Can We Be Too Accommodating?
    • MBTI Step II Questioning Facet: In-Preference and Out-of-Preference
    • Helping U.S. Navy Teams Find Synergy
  • June (3)
    • MBTI Step II Facets: An Overview
    • Interview: The Beginnings of the SuperStrong Assessment
    • Leadership and the Intuition–Thinking (NT) Process Pair
  • May (6)
    • Leadership and the Intuition–Feeling (NF) Process Pair
    • Leadership and the Sensing–Feeling (SF) Process Pair
    • Leadership and the Sensing–Thinking (ST) Process Pair
    • Myers-Briggs Personality Types and Leadership
    • Webinar: Build the Workforce of Tomorrow
    • Combining Coaching Tools: Myers-Briggs & FIRO Assessments
  • April (4)
    • Responding to Criticism of the MBTI Assessment
    • Neuroscience, psychology, and your MBTI® personality type
    • What if your date is just not your type? Myers-Briggs Types and Dating
    • Ten Recommended Books about MBTI Personality
  • March (5)
    • The Importance of Good Judgement - Values, Leaders & the MBTI Assessment
    • Showing Appreciation—ENTJ
    • Leadership Development Initiatives 75% More Effective with the FIRO-B Instrument
    • Showing Appreciation—ENFJ
    • Showing Appreciation—ESFJ
  • February (8)
    • Showing Appreciation—ESTJ
    • Showing Appreciation—ENTP
    • Showing Appreciation—ENFP
    • 7 Leadership Traits of Successful CIO's
    • Showing Appreciation—ESFP
    • Showing Appreciation—ESTP
    • Showing Appreciation— INTP
    • Aligning Values and Culture—the Undersung Secret to Success
  • January (9)
    • Showing Appreciation—INFP
    • Showing Appreciation—ISFP
    • Showing Appreciation—ISTP
    • Showing Appreciation—INTJ
    • Showing Appreciation—INFJ
    • Showing Appreciation—ISFJ
    • Showing Appreciation—ISTJ
    • What I'm Thankful For...
    • MBTI® Users Conference—Type, Interpersonal Needs, and Stress: A FIRO-B® and MBTI® Workplace Culture Connection
• 2016
  • December (10)
    • How Your Life's Mission Statement Will Guide You To Greater Work-Life Balance
    • MBTI® Users Conference—“Culture Matters” Panel: Macro and Micro Perspectives
    • Appreciating Family During the Most Wonderful Time of the Year!
    • These Bosses Want to Know Your Type
    • MBTI® Users Conference—Networking and the Step II™ Receiving Facet Challenge
    • Using the MBTI in Education in the Way It Was Designed
    • MBTI® Users Conference—Creating a Culture of Clarity / It’s Not Meant to Be Predictive
    • MBTI® Users Conference—Creating a Culture of Clarity / It Is Reliable
    • MBTI® Users Conference—Creating a Culture of Clarity / It Doesn’t Just Flatter You
    • MBTI® Users Conference—Creating a Culture of Clarity / There is Plenty of Research
  • November (10)
    • MBTI® Users Conference—Creating a Culture of Clarity / Some Clinical Psychology Criticism
    • MBTI® Users Conference—Creating a Culture of Clarity / Ambiverts?
    • MBTI® Users Conference—Creating a Culture of Clarity / Type Dynamics
    • MBTI® Users Conference—Creating a Culture of Clarity / Proper Type Language
    • MBTI® Users Conference—Creating a Culture of Clarity
    • MBTI® Users Conference—Communication Breakthroughs: The Genesis for Better Understanding of Others
    • CPP Acquires UK-based OPP
    • MBTI® Users Conference—From Diversity to Inclusion to Engagement
    • MBTI® Users Conference—The Art of Culture Hacking
    • MBTI® Users Conference—A Step II™ Day
  • October (9)
    • MBTI® Users Conference—Culture Matters
    • New Ready-to-Deliver Workshops for Easier Facilitation
    • Washington State DOT Gives Green Light for Leadership Training with the CPI 260 Tool
    • Celebrating a 60th Wedding Anniversary—Conclusion
    • Celebrating a 60th Wedding Anniversary—The Second Goodbye
    • Celebrating a 60th Wedding Anniversary—The First Goodbye
    • Celebrating a 60th Wedding Anniversary—Learning How to Use My Inborn Preferences
    • Celebrating a 60th Wedding Anniversary—A Sensing vs. Intuition Challenge
    • Celebrating a 60th Wedding Anniversary—ISFJ in Action
  • September (10)
    • Know Your Myers-Briggs Type? Here's How It Could Affect Your Money Decisions
    • Celebrating a 60th Wedding Anniversary—Love Is in the Air
    • Celebrating a 60th Wedding Anniversary—Loco Moco
    • Celebrating a 60th Wedding Anniversary—Live in the Moment
    • Companies Would Benefit from Helping People Who Prefer Introversion to Thrive
    • Celebrating a 60th Wedding Anniversary—Perceiving Is Alive and Well
    • Celebrating a 60th Wedding Anniversary—The Krakken
    • Allianz Global Improves Leadership, Teamwork with the FIRO-B Tool
    • Celebrating a 60th Wedding Anniversary—A Three-Hour Tour
    • New—MBTI® Workbook
  • August (9)
    • Celebrating a 60th Wedding Anniversary—Early Morning and Ready to Go
    • Celebrating a 60th Wedding Anniversary—Dining by the Sea
    • Celebrating a 60th Wedding Anniversary—A Life of Love
    • Celebrating a 60th Wedding Anniversary—My Preferences Do Not Limit My Behavior
    • Celebrating a 60th Wedding Anniversary—Step II Facets in Action
    • Celebrating a 60th Wedding Anniversary—Step II™ Planful, Out-of-Preference
    • Celebrating a 60th Wedding Anniversary—NF Blessing, NF Curse
    • Celebrating a 60th Wedding Anniversary—Lifelong Type Development with Eggs and Bacon on the Side
    • Enhance Your MBTI® Step II™ Training + Free Exercises
  • July (10)
    • Celebrating a 60th Wedding Anniversary—Father’s Day Too!
    • Free eBooks to Help Optimize Your MBTI® Step II™ Training
    • Executive Office of the President Uses FIRO-B for Team Development
    • Celebrating a 60th Wedding Anniversary—INFP Preferences in Overdrive
    • Optimize Your MBTI® Step II™ Training With a New Tool
    • Celebrating a 60th Wedding Anniversary—Extraverted Intuition Meets Introverted Sensing
    • Celebrating a 60th Wedding Anniversary—Day One Adventure
    • Leading culture from your strengths
    • Celebrating a 60th Wedding Anniversary—Out-of-Preference Planful
    • Celebrating a 60th Wedding Anniversary—We Have Arrived!
  • June (14)
    • Celebrating a 60th Wedding Anniversary
    • Summer Vacation Decision Making—Introverted Feeling
    • American Red Cross Uses CPI 260 Tool to Identify Leadership Potential
    • Summer Vacation Decision Making—Extraverted Feeling
    • Summer Vacation Decision Making—Introverted Thinking
    • Summer Vacation Decision Making—Extraverted Thinking
    • Fortune 500 Chemicals Co. Increases Team Efficiency Up to 20% Using TKI Tool
    • Summer Vacation Decision Making—Introverted Intuition
    • Summer Vacation Decision Making—Extraverted Intuition
    • Summer Vacation Decision Making—Introverted Sensing
    • Putting E–I and S–N together to support student success, Part 3
    • Summer Vacation Decision Making—Extraverted Sensing
    • USC Marshall School of Business Finds Students 75% More Engaged with Strong Interest Inventory
    • I’m Back and Summer Is Almost Here!
  • May (10)
    • Type at the Family Conference Table: In the Grip
    • Type at the Family Conference Table: Introverted Intuition
    • Type at the Family Conference Table: Extraverted Sensing
    • Type at the Family Conference Table: Extraverted Feeling
    • Type at the Family Conference Table: Introverted Thinking
    • Type at the Family Conference Table: Extraverted Intuition
    • High Growth IT Services Company Utilizes CPI 260 to Achieve Talent Management Objectives
    • Type at the Family Conference Table: Introverted Sensing
    • UMMS Professionals Give Patients Top Care While UMMS Cares for Professionals with FIRO-B
    • Type at the Family Conference Table: Introverted Feeling
  • April (10)
    • Anderson University Career Services Finds Success with Strong Tool
    • Type at the Family Conference Table: Extraverted Thinking
    • Type at the Family Conference Table
    • How to Decide on Management Styles for Your Company
    • Farming, Leadership Development and the TKI Tool
    • 16 Types in the Workplace—ENTJ
    • 3 Simple, Brilliant Ways Introverts Can Conquer Public Speaking
    • 16 Types in the Workplace—ENFJ
    • Harnessing Diverse Personalities to Move Your Career Forward
    • 4 Exclusive Secrets of the Myers-Briggs Tool
  • March (15)
    • 16 Types in the Workplace—ESFJ
    • 16 Types in the Workplace— ESTJ
    • “I’m Both!”
    • Square Pegs in Round Holes
    • Common Criticisms of the MBTI are Misguided
    • 16 Types in the Workplace—ENTP
    • Career Ready, Career Strong
    • Trapped in an Unfulfilling Job? How to Find Out What You Want to Do
    • Introducing the Next Wave of Refreshed MBTI® Products!
    • 16 Types in the Workplace—ENFP
    • The Biggest Discoveries from the MBTI Influence Research Project
    • 16 Types in the Workplace—ESFP
    • 16 Types in the Workplace—ESTP
    • Clarifying Clarity
    • 16 Types in the Workplace—INTP
  • February (9)
    • 16 Types in the Workplace—INFP
    • 16 Types in the Workplace—ISFP
    • 16 Types in the Workplace—ISTP
    • 16 Types in the Workplace—INTJ
    • 16 Types in the Workplace—INFJ
    • 16 Types in the Workplace—ISFJ
    • 16 Types in the Workplace—ISTJ
    • Looking at the Strong Scales as Puzzle Pieces
    • 16 Types in the Workplace
  • January (9)
    • JDSU Uses Personality Typology during Management Empowerment Camps
    • Is It Over Already?
    • I’m Next! Part 2
    • Gender and the Strong Interest Inventory®: Two of the Most Common Questions
    • I’m Next!
    • MBTI® Tool and Influencing—The Power of the Mental Processes
    • Connecting with Food and Drink
    • MBTI® Criticism
    • Type and Influence
• 2013
  • September (1)
    • Responses to Adam Grant’s “MBTI – you need to change too” article