Personality type has a big influence on your natural leadership style — and what doesn’t come naturally can be learned. Understanding your personality type and those of the people you lead is key in bettering your leadership skills.
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator assesses four opposite pairs of personality tendencies: extraversion versus introversion; sensing versus intuition; thinking versus feeling; and judging versus perceiving. Depending on which tendencies you lean toward, the indicator determines which of the possible 16 personality types you are.
Understanding your type can help you to recognize your own strengths and weaknesses; understand how to build relationships with colleagues who have different personality types; and identify how to improve your leadership skills.