Myers-Briggs is a psychometric test designed to identify personality types. There is a good article on it in Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers-briggs.
I first became aware of Myers-Briggs on a management training course, where we completed a self assessment. The assessment seemed to ring true, and I took something from the course, but didn't really take it much further. This was partly because of a lack of readily available information / books that can be bought.
Whilst I think a great service could be done by making a lot more information and Myers-Briggs tests freely available, the current tight ownership and limited publication of information makes learning more about Myers-Briggs quite difficult.
Nevertheless following some issues at work, when I wanted to understand why I was having problems communicating with a particular individual I came back to the Myers-Briggs information I do have, and found it very helpful to understand why miscommunication is occuring.
From the course I went on, I had two pamphlets:
- Introduction to Type
- Introduction to Type in Organisations
These are both published by Oxford Psychologists Press. I'm not sure how freely these can be purchased. There seems to be some sort of intent to restrict availability to qualified practioners (or the like). Nevertheless, if you search on Google, there seems to be a so they ought to be obtainable.
I'd recommend the first of these books, not because it's brilliant, but because it is the best I have. If you've got the first, the second is limited value for money as is only marginally elaborates on the material in the first book - although both in conjuction are useful.
My type is INTP, I'll expand upon that in a subsequent post.
