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Overview of Profiling Tools

The document provides an overview of four popular psychological profiling tools: the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), DISC, the Team Management Profile (TMP), and the Hermann Brain Dominance Instrument (HBTI). The MBTI measures preferences in extraversion/introversion and four functions. DISC considers four dimensions of behavior. TMP measures preferences for eight types of work functions. Finally, HBDI measures preferences for right-brain and left-brain thinking. All four tools are used for personal and career development, team building, and improving performance and understanding between individuals and teams.

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Overview of Profiling Tools

The document provides an overview of four popular psychological profiling tools: the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), DISC, the Team Management Profile (TMP), and the Hermann Brain Dominance Instrument (HBTI). The MBTI measures preferences in extraversion/introversion and four functions. DISC considers four dimensions of behavior. TMP measures preferences for eight types of work functions. Finally, HBDI measures preferences for right-brain and left-brain thinking. All four tools are used for personal and career development, team building, and improving performance and understanding between individuals and teams.

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OVERVIEW OF PSYCHOLOGICAL PROFILING TOOLS

INTRODUCTION

Various diagnostic tools are available that can be used with teams and/or individual staff to
provide insight into differences regarding:
• Ways of working
• Learning styles
• Individual strengths
• Individual areas for development
• Career preferences.

Below is an overview of some popular profiling tools.

MYERS-BRIGGS TYPE INDICATOR (MBTI) – www.austpsychpress.com.au

Background
The MBTI is used widely across the world. It was designed during World War II by a mother
and daughter team, Isabel Myers and her mother, Katherine Cook Briggs and is based on the
work of Carl Jung.

Jung believed that each person has a preferred way of taking in and organising information
and coming to a decision. To determine preferences, one needs to identify whether a person
is oriented to the outer world (extraversion) or inner world (introversion), then to assess a
person's preference for four psychological functions - thinking, feeling, sensing or intuition.

The MBTI instrument provides insight to preferences for Introversion and Extraversion and
the four paired functions - Thinking versus Feeling and Sensing versus Intuition – then adds a
fourth dimension to measure whether a person relates to the external world through
Judging or by Perception.

Uses
The MBTI is useful in a number of ways, including:
• team building,
• self insight and therefore personal development,
• staff development needs, and
• career development.

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DISC (DIMENSIONS OF BEHAVIOUR) – www.discprofile.com

Background
DISC is based on the 1928 work of psychologist, William Moulton Marston. It is a personal
assessment tool currently used by over 50 million people worldwide and presents a plan for
understanding oneself and others in a specific environment.

The tool considers a person's profile in light of four Dimensions of Behaviour - Dominance,
Influence, Steadiness, Conscientiousness.

Dominance has an emphasis on shaping the environment by overcoming opposition to


accomplish results. Influence has an emphasis on shaping the environment by influencing or
persuading others. Steadiness focuses on co-operating with others to carry out the task.
Conscientiousness focuses on working diligently within existing circumstances to ensure
quality and accuracy.

These profiles are considered in the context of a person's perception of his/her environment
and his/her power and control over that environment.

Uses
DISC is a useful tool for:
• heightening an understanding of one's own behavioural profile and identifying the
environment most conducive to one's success,
• learning about the differences of others and the environment they require for
maximum productivity and teamwork in the organisation.

TEAM MANAGEMENT PROFILE (TMP) – www.tms.com.au

Background
Dr Charles Margerison, an action-learning expert from the UK, teamed up in 1982 with Dr
Dick McCann, a professor of management development in Queensland.

Together, they undertook extensive research with teams around the world to identify ‘Types
of Work’ functions. They identified 8 core activities that a team needs to focus on – Advising,
Innovating, Promoting, Developing, Organising, Producing, Inspecting, Maintaining. They
then set about developing a way of predicting which, if any, of the Types of Work functions
individuals preferred to undertake at work. In doing this, they linked back to Carl Jung’s
personality type theory.

TMP measures individual preferences on 4 dimensions and enables team members to


identify their work preferences against the 8 ‘Types of Work’ functions.

Uses
TMP is useful for:
• team development and team building,
• enhancing team performance,
• career development,
• personal development.

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HERMANN BRAIN DOMINANCE INSTRUMENT (HBDI) – www.hbdi.com

Background
In 1976, Ned Hermann began research into ways of measuring whether a person has a
preference for right-brain or left-brain thinking.

Right-brain is responsible for more a conceptual, emotive and spatial way of thinking,
whereas left-brain is responsible for more linear, analytical and rational thought.

From his research, Hermann developed the HBDI, although he was keen to demonstrate that
it is possible for a person to develop 'whole-brain' thinking.

The HBDI gives some indication of how people process everyday business activities.

Uses
HBDI is useful for:
• teambuilding,
• creativity training, and scenario planning.

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