Types and Teams: Understanding and Using the Jung TypologyUses of the Jung TypologyUnderstanding the Jung TypologyJung Type IndicatorsSlide 5Slide 6Slide 7Creating TeamsTypes and Teams:Understanding and Using the Jung TypologyBUS 302: The Gateway ExperienceUses of the Jung TypologyBetter 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 Jung TypologyReflects 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.Jung Type Indicators1st 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.Jung Type Indicators2nd 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.Jung Type Indicators3rd 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.Jung Type Indicators4th Letter–Living: orientation to the outside world, how you deal with life: either•Judging: preferring a planned organized life•Perceiving: preferring a spontaneous, flexible lifeCreating TeamsHomogeneous 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
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