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INTJ as well (know already). I imagine there'll be a lot here.
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Not really, they're actually a pretty good indication of personality type, strengths and typical job roles, obviously with a certain amount of margin. I know of FTSE and other large companies who use them during interview and post-interview processes, and even a police force that has colour coded desks based on them so people know how to interact/what to expect from people in a larger team. That's a little bit weird I think but they are remarkably accurate and there's certainly some benefits to knowing what a person will want from you in advance (ie brevity, over explanation, being shown or told something, etc).
Above is in relation to Myers Briggs and more formal ones etc, which the OPs is based on (uses the same four letter abbreviations).
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ISTP-T Virtuoso
Virtuoso Strengths
Virtuoso Strengths
- Optimistic and Energetic – Virtuosos are usually up to their elbows in some project or other. Cheerful and good-natured, people with the Virtuoso personality type (especially Assertive ones) rarely get stressed out, preferring to go with the flow.
- Creative and Practical – Virtuosos are very imaginative when it comes to practical things, mechanics, and crafts. Novel ideas come easily, and they love using their hands to put them into action.
- Spontaneous and Rational – Combining spontaneity with logic, Virtuosos can switch mindsets to fit new situations with little effort, making them flexible and versatile individuals.
- Know How to Prioritize – This flexibility comes with some unpredictability, but Virtuoso personalities are able to store their spontaneity for a rainy day, releasing their energy just when it’s needed most.
- Great in a Crisis – With all this hands-on creativity and spontaneity, it’s no wonder that Virtuosos are naturals in crisis situations. People with this personality type usually enjoy a little physical risk, and they aren’t afraid to get their hands dirty when the situation calls for it.
- Relaxed – Through all this, Virtuosos are able to stay quite relaxed. They live in the moment and go with the flow, refusing to worry too much about the future.
- Stubborn – As easily as Virtuosos go with the flow, they can also ignore it entirely, and usually move in another direction with little apology or sensitivity. If someone tries to change Virtuosos’ habits, lifestyle or ideas through criticism, they can become quite blunt in their irritation.
- Insensitive – Virtuosos use logic, and even when they try to meet others halfway with empathy and emotional sensitivity, it rarely seems to quite come out right, if anything is even said at all.
- Private and Reserved – Virtuoso personalities are notoriously difficult to get to know. They are true introverts, keeping their personal matters to themselves, and often just prefer silence to small talk.
- Easily Bored – Virtuosos enjoy novelty, which makes them excellent tinkerers, but much less reliable when it comes to focusing on things long-term. Once something is understood, Virtuosos tend to simply move on to something new and more interesting.
- Dislike Commitment – Long-term commitments are particularly onerous for Virtuosos. They prefer to take things day-by-day, and the feeling of being locked into something for a long time is downright oppressive. This can be a particular challenge in Virtuosos’ romantic relationships.
- Risky Behavior – This stubbornness, difficulty with others’ emotions, focus on the moment, and easy boredom can lead to unnecessary and unhelpful boundary-pushing, just for fun. Virtuosos have been known to escalate conflict and danger just to see where it goes, something that can have disastrous consequences for everyone around if they lose control of the situation.
Advocate
INFJ-T
Apparently.
The Advocate personality type is very rare, making up less than one percent of the population, but they nonetheless leave their mark on the world.
Strengths
Weaknesses
INFJ-T
Apparently.
The Advocate personality type is very rare, making up less than one percent of the population, but they nonetheless leave their mark on the world.
Strengths
- Creative – Combining a vivid imagination with a strong sense of compassion, Advocates use their creativity to resolve not technical challenges, but human ones. People with the Advocate personality type enjoy finding the perfect solution for someone they care about. This strength makes them excellent counselors and advisors.
- Insightful – Seeing through dishonesty and disingenuous motives, Advocates step past manipulation and sales tactics and into a more honest discussion. Advocate personalities see how people and events are connected. They are then able to use that insight to get to the heart of the matter.
- Inspiring and Convincing – Speaking in human terms, not technical, Advocates have a fluid, inspirational writing style that appeals to the inner idealist in their audience. Advocates can even be astonishingly good orators, speaking with warmth and passion. This is especially true if they are proud of what they are speaking for.
- Decisive – Advocates’ creativity, insight, and inspiration are able to have a real impact on the world. This is because they are able to follow through on their ideas with conviction, willpower, and the planning necessary to see complex projects through to the end. People with the Advocate personality type don’t just see the way things ought to be; they act on those insights.
- Determined and Passionate – When Advocates come to believe that something is important, they pursue that goal with a conviction and energy that can catch others off-guard. Advocates will rock the boat if they must. Not everyone likes to see this, but their passion for their chosen cause is an inseparable part of the Advocate personality.
- Altruistic – These strengths are used for good. Advocates will not engage in any actions or promote beliefs just to benefit themselves. They have strong beliefs and take the actions that they do because they are trying to advance an idea that they truly believe will make the world a better place.
Weaknesses
- Sensitive – When someone challenges or criticizes Advocates’ principles or values, they are likely to receive an alarmingly strong response. People with the Advocate personality type are highly vulnerable to criticism and conflict. Questioning their motives is the quickest way to their bad side.
- Extremely Private – Advocates tend to present themselves as the culmination of an idea. This is partly because they believe in this idea, but also because Advocates are extremely private when it comes to their personal lives. They use this image to keep themselves from having to truly open up, even to close friends. Trusting a new friend can be even more challenging for Advocates.
- Perfectionistic – Advocate personalities are all but defined by their pursuit of ideals. While this is a wonderful quality in many ways, an ideal situation is not always possible – in politics, in business, in romance. Advocates, especially Turbulent ones, too often drop or ignore healthy and productive situations and relationships, always believing there might be a better option down the road.
- Always Need to Have a Cause – Advocate personalities get so caught up in their pursuits that any of the cumbersome tasks that come between them and their ideal vision is deeply unwelcome. Advocates like to know that they are taking concrete steps toward their goals. If routine tasks feel like they are getting in the way – or worse yet, there is no goal at all – they will feel restless and disappointed.
- Can Burn Out Easily – Their passion, impatience for routine maintenance, idealism, and extreme privacy tend to leave Advocates with few options for letting off steam. People with this personality type are likely to exhaust themselves in short order if they don’t find a way to balance their ideals with the realities of day-to-day living.
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Debater ENTP-A, ENTP-T. Fully accurate.
Strengths
Strengths
- Knowledgeable – Debaters rarely pass up a good opportunity to learn something new, especially abstract concepts. This information isn’t usually absorbed for any planned purpose as with dedicated studying, people with the Debater personality type just find it fascinating.
- Quick Thinkers – Debaters have tremendously flexible minds, and are able to shift from idea to idea without effort, drawing on their accumulated knowledge to prove their points, or their opponents’, as they see fit.
- Original – Having little attachment to tradition, Debater personalities are able to discard existing systems and methods and pull together disparate ideas from their extensive knowledge base, with a little raw creativity to hold them together, to formulate bold new ideas. If presented with chronic, systemic problems and given rein to solve them, Debaters respond with unabashed glee.
- Excellent Brainstormers – Nothing is quite as enjoyable to Debaters as analyzing problems from every angle to find the best solutions. Combining their knowledge and originality to splay out every aspect of the subject at hand, rejecting without remorse options that don’t work and presenting ever more possibilities, Debaters are irreplaceable in brainstorming sessions.
- Charismatic – People with the Debater personality type have a way with words and wit that others find intriguing. Their confidence, quick thought and ability to connect disparate ideas in novel ways create a style of communication that is charming, even entertaining, and informative at the same time.
- Energetic – When given a chance to combine these traits to examine an interesting problem, Debaters can be truly impressive in their enthusiasm and energy, having no qualms with putting in long days and nights to find a solution.
- Very Argumentative – If there’s anything Debaters enjoy, it’s the mental exercise of debating an idea, and nothing is sacred. More consensus-oriented personality types rarely appreciate the vigor with which Debater personalities tear down their beliefs and methods, leading to a great deal of tension.
- Insensitive – Being so rational, Debaters often misjudge others feelings and push their debates well past others’ tolerance levels. People with this personality type don’t really consider emotional points to be valid in such debates either, which magnifies the issue tremendously.
- Intolerant – Unless people are able to back up their ideas in a round of mental sparring, Debaters are likely to dismiss not just the ideas but the people themselves. Either a suggestion can stand up to rational scrutiny or it’s not worth bothering with.
- Can Find It Difficult to Focus – The same flexibility that allows Debaters to come up with such original plans and ideas makes them readapt perfectly good ones far too often, or to even drop them entirely as the initial excitement wanes and newer thoughts come along. Boredom comes too easily for Debaters, and fresh thoughts are the solution, though not always a helpful one.
- Dislike Practical Matters – Debaters are interested in what could be – malleable concepts like ideas and plans that can be adapted and debated. When it comes to hard details and day-to-day execution where creative flair isn’t just unnecessary but actually counter-productive, Debater personalities lose interest, often with the consequence of their plans never seeing the light of day.
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Thats the worrying thing about this stuff, HR types actually believe in it.
It is one thing for people to try it as some interesting test without taking it too seriously but it is a pretty dubious test.
See also "NLP" for another example of pseudoscientific Psychology guff HR chicks believe in.
HR weren't the ones initiating the test or interpreting the results. On both occasions.
Who was and for what purpose out of interest? You said your work made you do it... whether it was HR or not it is still slightly worrying that this stuff is seemingly still popular.
Integrating new people and shuffling roles into our leadership team, making sure the right people had the right roles and everyone had a common understanding of how to operate effectively by understand the individual needs and personalities of others. Very effective and not worrying at all. Nobody is being pigeon-holed - just everyone learning how to get the most out of each other, engage effectively and temper weaknesses.
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I found out if something takes more than 2 minutes I'll quit with only 40% complete................
That sort of thing is rather worrying though, if you weren't aware this test is rather dubious. If you're being made to take it because someone wants to base some decisions re: making sure the right people had the right roles in a workplace then that is pretty poor practice and rather silly.
This sort of thing is not uncommon in some HR departments, or seemingly not in HR in your case but with some sort of manager(s) in relation to getting the right people into the right role.
Yet it is proving to be very effective. There you go. I'm not saying that it works for all but it is driving higher performance for us.
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Total Barnum Effect.
Thankfully our organisations havent falled for this crap unlike so many in the US
Thankfully our organisations havent falled for this crap unlike so many in the US
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might as well read your horoscope.
Doubtful, I'm not disputing that you may have done stuff/changed things and you've had some positive results. That doesn't mean that this test was actually useful or accurate, you might well have happened to have higher performance from using people's star signs instead... it doesn't mean that star signs are a useful thing to make use of in business. Perhaps some completely random changes might have happened to have worked too.
The difference is though that a star sign will be more universally seen as rather a silly thing to use but because this is dressed up as something scientific then people believe in it.
Yup
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Sorry, I understand the point you've made and I'm not disputing it - we could have used our favourite colours and worked off that. But this works well for us, and so it should not be dismissed as it clearly has been an effective tool in business.
You have no basis to doubt this, and I'm not going to go into the detail of our results and the changes we made as a result of them, so let's leave it there.
You have no basis to doubt this, and I'm not going to go into the detail of our results and the changes we made as a result of them, so let's leave it there.
I don't need you to go into any detail, the test is nonsense. If it is no more effective for your purpose than some other rather arbitrary method of selection then it would seem it isn't the test itself that has anything to do with it nor can be said to be effective at anything. I mean if you rolled some dice perhaps would you claim the dice were effective at guiding some decisions? Or that the dice were driving high performance for you etc...?