The Pearman Personality Integrator—a new Type tool published by MHS—presents personality Type in new levels of specificity, opening up any number of new and useful avenues of Type development for those who take it. The benefits of the Pearman to individual development and to coaching are clear from
Top 5 Reasons to Use the Pearman
As a loyal and active MBTI trainer and thought leader for over twenty years, I was intrigued but skeptical about the Pearman—Type’s newest assessment tool, originally published by MHS in late 2015 and recently revised. Long a fan of both MHS (the Pearman’s publisher) and Roger Pearman himself (one
OKA’s Type Development Series—#2: The Logic of Feeling
What is Type Development? Jung said that Sensing tells us that something IS, Thinking tells us WHAT it is, Feeling gives it value, and iNtuition gives it meaning. Type Development is always the goal. So much surrounding Type emphasizes the preference for one end of a dichotomy over its opposite,
Knowing Your MBTI Type Might Not Matter
Could it be that knowing your MBTI Type might not matter? Invariably, every MBTI/Type training includes some folks who can’t and/or don’t want to choose a preference on any given dichotomy. Perhaps they feel equally engaged by both options, or they feel that one represents a best fit Type at work
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“Extraversion and Introversion--I do both of these. Why do I have to choose?” I’ve never had a Type discussion that this comment does not come up, on any or even every dichotomy. But I’m finding that the more Millennials I have in the audience (people born since 1980), the more frequent and