Effects of Each Style Preference in Work Situations EXTRAVERTS | INTROVERTS | Like variety and action | Like quiet for concentration | Are often good at greeting people | Have trouble remembering names and faces | Are sometimes impatient with long slow jobs | Can work on one project for a long time without interruption | Are interested in how others do their jobs | Are interested in the idea behind the job | Often enjoy talking on the phone | Dislike telephone interruptions | Often act quickly, sometimes without thinking | Think before they act, sometimes without acting | Like to have people around in the working environment | Work alone contentedly | May prefer to communicate by talking rather than writing | May prefer communications to be in writing | Like to learn a new task by talking it through with someone | May prefer to learn by reading rather than talking or experiencing | | | SENSING Types | INTUITIVE Types | Are aware of the uniqueness of each event | Are aware of new challenges and possibilities | Focus on what works now | Focus on how things could be improved | Like an established way of doing things | Dislike doing the same thing repeatedly | Enjoy applying what they have already learned | Enjoy learning new skills | Work steadily with a realistic idea of how long it will take | Work in bursts of energy powered by enthusiasm with slack periods in between | Usually reach a conclusion step by step | May leap to a conclusion quickly | Are not often inspired and may not trust the inspiration when they are | Follow their inspirations and hunches | Are careful about the facts | May get their facts a bit wrong | May be good at precise work | Dislike taking time for precision | Can oversimplify a task | Can overcomplexify a task | Accept current reality as a given to work with | Ask why things are as they are | | | THINKING Types | FEELING Types | Are good at putting things in logical order | Like harmony and will work to make it happen | Respond more to people’s ideas than their feelings | Respond to people’s values as much as to their thoughts | Anticipate or predict logical outcomes of choices | Are good at seeing effects of choices on people | Need to be treated fairly | Need occasional praise | Tend to be firm and tough-minded | Tend to be sympathetic | Are able to reprimand or fire people when necessary | Dislike telling people unpleasant things | May hurt people’s feelings without knowing it | Enjoy pleasing people | Have a talent for analyzing a problem or situation | Take an interest in the person behind the job/idea | | | JUDGING Types | PERCEIVING Types | Work best when they can plan their work and follow the plan | Do not mind leaving things open for last-minute changes | Like to get things settled and finished | Adapt well to changing situations | May decide things too quickly | May have trouble making decisions, feeling like they never have enough information | May dislike to interrupt the project they are on for a more urgent one | May start too many projects and have difficulty in finishing them | Tend to be satisfied once they reach a judgment on a thing, situation, or person | May postpone unpleasant jobs | Want only the essentials needed to begin their work | Want to know all about a new job | Schedule projects so that each step gets done on time | Get a lot accomplished at the last minute under pressure of a deadline | Use lists as agendas for action | Use lists as reminders of all the things they have to do someday | What Each Appreciates | What Each Does NOT Appreciate | Sensing-Judging (SJ) | Praise for a product orientation | Deadlines not being met | Employers who value carefulness, caution, thoroughness, and accuracy | Persons not using standard operating procedures | Commendation for their loyalty, responsibility, and industriousness | | Want appreciate but not likely to show their pleasure in receiving it | | | | Sensing-Perceiving (SP) | Commendation for grace and flair | Being told how to work | Acknowledgment that process is more important than product | Standard operating procedures | Having others take pride in their boldness, bravery, endurance, cleverness, adaptation, and timing | | | | iNtuitive-Feeling (NF) | Personal expressions of appreciation | Impersonal treatment | Recognition as unique persons making unique contributions | | Having feelings and ideas understood by others | | | | iNtuitive-Thinking (NT) | Being appreciated for their capabilities and ideas | Routine task well done | Someone as competent or more competent appreciating them | Things which violate logic, reason, or principle | | Rules, traditions, or biases getting in the way of maximum results | Appreciation According to Some Dimension Combinations

How S-N and T-F Types Complement Each Other

Sensing (S) Types Need Intuitive (N) Types: To bring up new possibilities To supply ingenuity on problems To read the signs of coming change To see how to prepare for the future To have enthusiasm To watch for new essentials To tackle difficulties with zest To show that the joys of the future are worth looking for

Thinking (T) Types Need Feeling (F) Types: To persuade To conciliate To forecast how others will feel To arouse enthusiasm To teach To sell To advertise To appreciate the thinker