The MBTI® assessment describes an individual’s personality preferences on 4 dimensions:
- Extraversion – prefers to gain energy from the outside world of activity, people and things OR Introversion – prefers to gain energy from the inner world of reflections, feelings and ideas
- Sensing – Prefers to focus on information gained from the senses and on practical applications OR Intuition – prefers to focus on patterns, connections and possible meanings
- Thinking – prefers to make judgements on logic and objective analysis OR Feeling – prefers to base decisions on values and what is important to people
- Judging – likes a planned and organised approach to life and to make decisions OR Perceiving – likes a flexible, spontaneous approach and prefers to keep options open
The MBTI® assessment doesn’t measure, but sorts, and sorts people into 16 types based on how they fall on the 4 scales, for example ISTJ and ENFP.