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Introductory Books on Personality Type

Essentials of Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® Assessment
Essentials of Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® Assessment

Well-known author and psychologist Naomi Quenk gives valuable advise in this succinct guide designed for mental health practitioners needing quick, comprehensive instruction on the clinical application of the MBTI® instrument.

Exploring Personality Type: Discovering My Best And Your Best
Exploring Personality Type: Discovering My Best And Your Best

Written at the elementary school level, Exploring Personality Type: Discovering My Best and Your Best is about how students might like to learn, think, and act.

Exploring Personality Type: Discovering My Strengths and Stretches
Exploring Personality Type: Discovering My Strengths and Stretches

Written for middle and junior high school students, this is a book about how students like to learn, think, and act. Exploring Personality Type: Discovering My Strengths and Stretches can be used to help students better understand their MMTIC® results both in the classroom and at home.

Finding the Fit
Finding the Fit

Finding the Fit: Helping Clients Clarify MBTI® type includes advice on giving feedback, describing types, exploring type in different contexts, observing behavior, and investigating the implications of type dynamics and development.

Flex™ Care
Flex™ Care

Developed for use in a FLEX™ workshop, using the Flex™ Leader's Guide, this workbook teaches how to recognize your own preferred style of communication, how to recognize behavior cues that indicate personal interaction styles in others, and how to adjust—or "flex"—your style to better respond to particular individuals.

Flex™ Sell
Flex™ Sell

Developed for use in a FLEX™ workshop, using the Flex™ Leader's Guide this workbook teaches how to recognize your own preferred style of communication, how to recognize behavior cues that indicate personal interaction styles in others, and how to adjust—or "flex"—your style to better respond to particular individuals.

Flex™ Talk
Flex™ Talk

Developed for use in a FLEX™ workshop using the Flex™ Leader's Guide, this workbook teaches how to recognize your own preferred style of communication, how to recognize behavior cues that indicate personal interaction styles in others, and how to adjust—or "flex"—your style to better respond to particular individuals.

Gifts Differing
Gifts Differing

When Isabel Myers created the MBTI® assessment it was her dream that people use type "for the constructive use of differences.

In the Grip
In the Grip

This is an outstanding introduction to the inferior function - an often hidden part of our personalities that emerges most dramatically during times of stress, fatigue, and illness.

Introduction to Type®
Introduction to Type®

This edition of Introduction to Type® offers revised type descriptions in a new format to make the information more accessible.

Introduction to Type® (Spanish)
Introduction to Type® (Spanish)

This edition of Introduction to Type® offers revised type descriptions in a new format to make the information more accessible.

Introduction to Type® and Careers
Introduction to Type® and Careers

A booklet that provides career information for clients, with interactive exercises and realistic explanations of personality type and career matching.

Introduction to Type® and Change
Introduction to Type® and Change

Change affects people in many different ways. Introduction to Type and Change offers readers an understanding of how type preference can play a critical role in designing, implementing, and participating in change.

Introduction to Type® and Coaching
Introduction to Type® and Coaching

This practical type resource, designed as a planning tool and guide for anyone involved in employee development, is a comprehensive source of information about type and development that can be used with all members of an organizational team, including staff, management, or executives.

Introduction to Type® and Communication
Introduction to Type® and Communication

With today's emphasis on team-based and collaborative management and decision making, communication can make or break an organization.

Introduction to Type® and Conflict
Introduction to Type® and Conflict

This new booklet is for practitioners looking for a conflict management model that works in conjunction with type. Included are comprehensive conflict profiles that summarize how each type contributes positively to conflict situations, what generates conflict for them, what they need from others, how others perceive them, how they look under stress, what their blind spots are, and more.

Introduction to Type® and Decision Making
Introduction to Type® and Decision Making

Decisions, decisions—every day we are faced with opportunities that require choices. Fortunately personality type offers a way to guide us through the decision-making process—both our own and those around us.

Introduction to Type® and Emotional Intelligence
Introduction to Type® and Emotional Intelligence

Emotional intelligence (EQ) is a term used to describe our ability to control impulses, show empathy, and persist in the face of obstacles with resilience and flexibility.

Introduction to Type® and Innovation
Introduction to Type® and Innovation

This unique booklet is for organizations that seek to apply the power of psychological type theory to help achieve continuous innovation, and for individuals who want to improve their potential through increased understanding of how the personality types approach the innovation process.

Introduction to Type® and Leadership
Introduction to Type® and Leadership

Introduction to Type® and Leadership offers a unique Leadership Map that helps leaders chart their own course to becoming even more effective.

Introduction to Type® and Learning
Introduction to Type® and Learning

We all learn in a variety of ways–some of us learn by seeing, some by listening, and some by doing. No matter what your learning preference, this insightful booklet will help you make the most of your learning opportunities.

Introduction to Type® and Project Management
Introduction to Type® and Project Management

Almost all our work can be framed in terms of a project, and at the core of these projects are the team and the leader who have to deliver a unique product or service.

Introduction to Type® and Selling
Introduction to Type® and Selling

This booklet focuses on ways for salespeople to approach customers, gain information, and make decisions based on type differences to build strong relationships with clients.

Introduction to Type® and Teams
Introduction to Type® and Teams

Help individuals better understand how their MBTI results influence team involvement. This revised and expanded edition features new descriptions of the eight preferences and their influence in the workplace, along with an in-depth discussion of six core issues: communication, team culture, leadership, change, problem solving/conflict, resolution and stress.

Introduction to Type® and the 8 Jungian Functions
Introduction to Type® and the 8 Jungian Functions

Introduction to Type® and the 8 Jungian Functions goes beyond general descriptions of the 16 personality types to include the flexibility each personality type has with regard to the eight Jungian functions.

Introduction to Type® Dynamics and Development
Introduction to Type® Dynamics and Development

This booklet is for anyone who has taken the MBTI® instrument and wants to learn how psychological type can further influence and enhance their lives.

Introduction to Type® in College
Introduction to Type® in College

Prepare high school and college students for the rigorous academic and social aspects of university life. This booklet describes how a student's MBTI® type can affect learning styles, study habits, test taking, roommate and personal relationships, and stress in the college environment.

Introduction to Type® in Organizations
Introduction to Type® in Organizations

Provides MBTI® users in business and organizations with an introduction to Jung's typology in language appropriate for these settings.

Introduction to Type® Library
Introduction to Type® Library

The Introduction to Type® Library is wonderful reference for professionals who work with type and for students exploring the applications of the MBTI® instrument.

LIFETypes
LIFETypes

A popular introduction to type describing the preferences with styles of communication, relationships, work, and careers.

Looking at Type® and Learning Styles
Looking at Type® and Learning Styles

Written for both students and teachers, this book helps gain insight into personal learning styles in order to develop more effective study and test-taking strategies and help teachers facilitate learning.

Looking at Type® and Spirituality
Looking at Type® and Spirituality

Are you excited by active expression of your spirituality, or are you more interested in opportunities for reflection upon the divine? Learn more about how these preferences can have a powerful impact on how you express your spirituality, common stumbling blocks to spirituality, and how your spirituality can grow deeper.

Looking at Type® Booklet
Looking at Type® Booklet

The crisp graphics of this revised edition bring a contemporary sparkle to this proven classic material that explains personality type with easy-to-understand illustrations and keywords.

Looking at Type® in the Workplace
Looking at Type® in the Workplace

A fundamental introduction to how an individual's psychological type affects daily interactions at work and can influence everyday workplace activities such as responding to conflict, work style, being part of a team, making decisions, dealing with change, and communication.

Looking at Type® Series
Looking at Type® Series

The Looking at Type® series includes one each of Looking at Type®: The Fundamentals, Looking at Type® and Careers, Looking at Type® and Learning Styles, Looking at Type® and Spirituality, and Looking at Type® in the Workplace.

Looking at Type® The Fundamentals (Spanish)
Looking at Type® The Fundamentals (Spanish)

Looking at Type®: The Fundamentals is designed to give a clearer picture of results from the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® assessment.

Looking at Type®: The Fundamentals
Looking at Type®: The Fundamentals

Looking at Type®: The Fundamentals is designed to give a clearer picture of results from the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® assessment or the Murphy-Meisgeier Type Indicator for Children® assessment.

Looking at Type®: Your Career
Looking at Type®: Your Career

The standard for MBTI® feedback in career counseling, this book describes how type is useful in career selection, linking type to interests, values, skills, decision making, and action planning.

MBTI® Introduction Workbook
MBTI® Introduction Workbook

A participant workbook is also available as a companion piece to the MBTI® Introduction DVD presentation. In addition to basic type information, it has descriptions for each of the 16 types that include short descriptions on Communication Style, Problem Solving and Stress, Values, Workplace Contribution, Leadership Qualities, and Team Spirit.

MMTIC® Manual
MMTIC® Manual

Includes a general introduction to type and the Murphy-Meisgeier Type Indicator for Children® (MMTIC®) assessment. The development, administration, and scoring of the MMTIC assessment are explained, along with information on the reliability and validity of the instrument.

MotherStyles
MotherStyles

Janet Penley, author of The M.O.M.S.® Handbook, offers MotherStyles, a new inspirational tool to help every mother understand herself, break the myth of the ideal mother, and find the strength to develop her own style.

Navigating Your Career
Navigating Your Career

The Navigating Your Career guide is intended to help you use your results from the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®) assessment in your career exploration, decision making, and development.

People Types & Tiger Stripes
People Types & Tiger Stripes

People’s behavior often seems randomly varied—but according to Carl G. Jung, behavior actually follows patterns.

Please Understand Me II
Please Understand Me II

This greatly expanded edition presents a more comprehensive approach to the four temperaments. In it, Keirsey continues to investigate personality differences that refine his temperament theory and define the facets of character that distinguish each of the four from another.

Psychological Types
Psychological Types

Jung reviews concepts of type in classical and medieval thought and in modern philosophy, poetry, aesthetics, psychopathology, and biography, and goes on to discuss his own epoch-shaping ideas.

Statistics & Measurement
Statistics & Measurement

In this new edition of Statistics and Measurement: An Introduction, Ray Zeissett offers a fresh approach to the study of statistical research with step-by-step instructions, practical definitions of key terms, and quizzes to test understanding.

The 4 Temperaments Workbook
The 4 Temperaments Workbook

A participant workbook is also available as a companion piece to The 4 Temperaments DVD presentation. In addition to basic type information, it has descriptions for each of the temperaments that include Pathways, Pitfalls, Leadership Style, Influencing Strategies, Learning Style, and Teaching Style.

The Art of Dialogue
The Art of Dialogue

An MBTI book with a dynamic explanation of psychological type and communication researched and crafted by leading type expert, Carloyn Zeisset.

The Chemistry of Personality
The Chemistry of Personality

Every student learns differently. The Chemistry of Personality is every teacher's invaluable guide to a powerful and simple method of understanding such diversity, exploring a positive approach to personality differences with their students, and using effective teaching methods that reach and engage every young mind.

Type and Training
Type and Training

Are you new to facilitating workshops using the concepts of personality type? This booklet will help you create and conduct engaging and effective training sessions that lead to success for you and your participants.

Type Tales (Hardcover)
Type Tales (Hardcover)

Author and artist Diane Farris uses innovative photography to illustrate four charming tales about canine friends Millie and Momo.

Type Tales (Paperback)
Type Tales (Paperback)

Author and artist Diane Farris uses innovative photography to illustrate four charming tales about canine friends Millie and Momo.

Una mirada a los tipos psicologicos (Spanish)
Una mirada a los tipos psicologicos (Spanish)

The original Looking at Type® presentation by Earle Page provides clear and entertaining situational graphics to introduce people to the concepts of psychological type.

Understanding Your MBTI® Step II Results
Understanding Your MBTI® Step II Results

Help your clients learn more about their MBTI® Step II results with this new booklet. The 27-page guide, designed for those who have just taken the Step II instrument, helps people gain a greater understanding of type through their facet results.

Understanding Yourself and Others®
Understanding Yourself and Others®

An updated introduction to Keirsey's temperament theory, which is based on the observation that throughout history human behavior has been repeatedly identified as consisting of four major patterns or configurations.

YOU
YOU

Based on MBTI® personality type and the 20 underlying facets of the Step II instrument, You is full of tips and tools designed to help people become more personally and professionally effective.

   
 
 
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