Types and Teams: Understanding and
Using the HumanmetricsJung Typology Test
BUS 302: The Gateway Experience
Uses of the Typology Test
Better understand your own and others’
behavior in teams.
 Develop a language for talking about
individual differences in an objective
manner.
 Understand how individuals’ different
ways of approaching a problem can
improve team performance.
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Understanding the Test
Reflects back what you say about
yourself in a systematic way.
 Profiles what you prefer to do, not
what you can do.
 Letters represent ends of one scale,
your actual score is somewhere along
the scale.
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Type Indicators
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1st Letter
– Energizing: Orientation of your energy
either:
• Extroversion: towards the outside world,
people activities and things
• Introversion: toward the world inside
you, emotions and impressions.
Type Indicators
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2nd Letter
– Attending: what a person pays attention
to, either:
• Sensing: noticing what is actual, taking
in information through the five senses,
focus on specifics first.
INtuition: noticing what might be, take in
information through a 6th sense, focus
on the overall pattern first.
Type Indicators
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3rd Letter
– Deciding: how a person makes decisions,
either
• Thinking: preference for structuring
information to decide in a logical
objective way
• Feeling: preference for structuring
information to decide in a personal,
values oriented way.
Type Indicators
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4th Letter
– Living: orientation to the outside world,
how you deal with life: either
• Judging: preferring a planned organized
life
• Perceiving: preferring a spontaneous,
flexible life
Creating Teams Using the Indicators
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Homogeneous
Groups
– Start fast.
– Reach agreement
easily.
– People feel
comfortable.
– Generate fewer
creative solutions.
– Tend to have
collective blind spots.
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Heterogeneous
Groups
– Start Slow.
– Have more conflict
and have difficulty.
reaching agreement
– People feel less
comfortable.
– Generate more
creative solutions.
– Catch errors and
over sights.