Welcome to ORI Values Alignment Process 2023-2024
As part of the ORI team, you are part of a values-based culture that has remarkable potential, in Humber and far beyond.
How can this potential be fully unleashed, developed and most importantly, sustained?
It starts with YOU.
Workshops and Resources
Resources: Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
Values and Types Represent Human Energy
Get energy through operating in harmony with your strengths—and use some of that energy to build up capacity where you have natural blindspots.
Changing behavior requires energy. You will want to focus on one area that you can change, and that you believe will be worth the effort, and will benefit both you and for those around you. It often lies in the “inferior function”—the opposite to your most-preferred function, and likely the one you are least skilled at. It is also the function you may slide into when under prolonged stress. Getting a grip on it can improve your resiliency.
All it takes to begin working on “all cylinders” is to:
1) Become aware of what you need to become more effective (what are your type strengths and blindspots?)
2) Set an intention to work on it (best to start with one goal that will be the easiest for you to focus on and stick with it)
3) Get ready for an expenditure of energy (and make plans for using your favored strengths/preferences to replenish your energy accounts afterward).
Some Stereotypes about Types
NO, Extraverts are not drama-seekers and Introverts do not try to emulate dust bunnies and disapear from sight. Both can be Selective about their behavior, and you could say that Introverts tend to be more selective about whom they let it all hang out with (because they can). Extraverts need time out too, sometimes.
Nah, Sensing preference people are not droids that run on data. And though our society at large tends to cliam for iNtuiting types that they are The Creatives—that’s WRONG. All preferences are creative—just in different ways. We are all capable of coming up with original ideas, and we are all capable of picking up clues about our environment from the five senses.
Nope, Thinking preference people are not unfeeling robots. And Feeling preference people are not all soft and squishy. Both are fully human, just a little different in the way they choose to come to conclusions when presented with trade-offs and dilemmas in the world, as we all are.
NO WAY. We all possess a Voice of Judgment (VOJ)—and most of us have deployed it in the mirror, as well as toward others we might feel are doing something we would prefer they did not.
Judging and Perceiving are about the attitudes we take concerning, generally, whether we prefer to maintain relatively steady-state organization and structure in our lives in order to feel comfortable; or we rely on pressure-prompting to get certaint things done, or prefer keeping options open to see whether anything better might show up (which can make it hard to decide on a movie to watch or a restaurant to choose before they all close for the night). Either way, we can risk annoying others (which might trigger their VOJ), but we are all equally capable of keeping our rooms clean when we need to, and letting it all hang loose when we need to do that.
If we want a stereotype, it might look more like this:
But we know better than to stereotype, don’t we?
Getting the Most Out of MBTI
Best Resource of ALL
In our opinion, the single most useful resource on MBTI we have ever encoutered can be found in the ORI Lending Library: YOU, by Roger Pearman with the collaboration of M. Lombardo and R. Eichinger. It provides great descriptions of all the types, and is the only source we know of that goes so deeply and in detail into behavioral challenges you, or someone you live or work with, may face as a natural blindspot—and provides solid tactics and strategies for addressing behavioral change, based on type. Even if type in and of itself does not interest you, the behavioral information will.
There’s lots out there on MBTI. Other useful books include:
Please Understand Me II, by David Kiersey
The Art of Speedreading People by Barbara Barron
In the Grip: Understanding Type, Stress, and the Inferior Function by Naomi L. Quenk
Any of the Introduction to Type series published by CPP on multiple MBTI topics
On the Internet…
Psychology Junkie
Founded by Susan Storm, an MBTI® certified practitioner, this friendly site is loaded with excellently informative, digestible and fun insghts about all types and type dynamics.
Facets of Type…
are very helpful in learning how to spot type characteristics, in yourself and in those around you. If you have taken the MBTI through ORI, you have been privileged with the Step II report, which gives you information on the “facets” of each of your preferences. This can tell you a lot about how strong your type preferences are, and what facets are in operation that make everyone’s profile unique. This is a simple, downloadable powerpoint show:
MBTI Step II Facet Breakdown
Did You Know…
Data is collected on the prevalence of types at work? Check this out, along with additional observations and type tips:
Percentages of Types in Organizations
MBTI in Family Life—It Starts Early!
Here’s a great page on the CPP/MBTI site about family and type dynamics. In our practice, we have found that children as young as age 11 can complete an MBTI test—but type shows up discernably in many cases from a very young age. We all pop out differently!
Be a Better Family
Primary and Inferior Functions—Complex and Fascinating, and Worth Examining…
Type dynamics open up a whole realm to explore that can give you deep ways of thinking about what type is and how it works, and what difference it can make, personally and professionally. This site is part of the information services of CPP, the publishers of MBTI:
MBTI Type Dynamics
And, When You Are In The Grip…
There are a lot of sources on how type affects our reactions to stress and conflict. If you are interested in this subject, look around for a site that explains these natural reactions in terms that make sense to you and can help you cope with stress and recover normal equilibrium. That said, stress is a great life-teacher as so many of us know. It’s a gift—sometimes a dire one—that can help us to return to a stronger self if we pay attention to it.
How Each Personality Acts During Grip Stress
Zoom address for Workshops:
Wednesday, March 13 1-2 pm EDT
What’s Your Preference? MBTI Secret Superpowers
What gives you energy? What depletes it? What happens when you face challenges (for example, conflicting values or necessary trade-offs) at work or in relationships? What do you need to know in order to positively influence others? Type preference tools like the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) are frequently misused. Learn the pitfalls and the great advantages of how to recognize the trait indicators that are meaningful and useful to you—personally and as an ethical influencer—and what you can usefully ignore. There’s an art to it, and that art helps you to more fully grasp what is REALLY going on rather than stumbling in the darkness of Assumption Alley—and if you can master it, it is a Superpower.
Something Special on Offer:
Want a Salon on MBTI?
You Organize It, We’ll Be There
What questions do you have about putting values into practice? What skills would you like to hone at work? What works for you: what successful practices do you have to offer to peers? These and other questions can be explored in topic-based Salons. Have a burning question? Cheryl and Kenton offer to host a dialogue session on burning topics of interest. Just gather at least three ORI team members, make the request, and we’ll make it so.