MYERS-BRIGGS TYPE INDICATOR® | STEP I™

INTERPRETIVE REPORT
Prepared for

JANE SAMPLE
April 22, 2015
Interpreted byKevin Consultant
ABC Consulting

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About Your ReportYour Myers-Briggs® Interpretive Report is designed to help
you understand your results on the Myers-Briggs Type
Indicator ® (MBTI®) assessment. This assessment identifies
IMAGINATIVE
MOTIVATOR

which of 16 different personality types best describes you.

Your reported Myers-Briggs personality type
ENFPYour preferences
Extraversion | Intuition | Feeling | Perceiving

The MBTI assessment was developed by Isabel Briggs Myers and her mother, Katharine Cook Briggs, who spent years
observing people. They created the assessment based on the personality type theory proposed by psychologist CarlJung. Their goal was to help people understand how natural, healthy differences in the way people take in informationand come to conclusions lead so clearly to the different ways people act and react, make life choices, relate to others,
and make sense of the world. These insights help explain why different people are interested in different things, prefervarious kinds of work, and sometimes find it hard to understand each other. The MBTI assessment is now used byorganizations and individuals around the world to improve their interactions and to promote effectiveness in their workand personal lives.
• Organizations use it to improve communication, teamwork, and leadership.
• Those entering the work world use it to choose careers likely to match their interests and strengths;
those seeking a change use it to target new career directions.
• Educators and students use it to make learning more interesting and compatible with individual
learning and teaching styles.
• People in relationships of all kinds use it to better understand one another, improve communication,and reduce conflict, resulting in more positive and productive interactions.
Isabel Briggs Myers created descriptions of the 16 personality types, including the description presented for you in thisreport. Your type description will help you see your type’s distinctive characteristics and how your type differs fromothers. The insights gained will help you better understand and appreciate the basic differences between people andmore successfully manage the impact of those differences.

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ENFP | 3Your Myers-Briggs Personality Type: ENFPThe questions on the MBTI assessment are designed so that when you respond to a question, you show which preference
in one of the four pairs of opposites you prefer.

EXTRAVERSIONorINTROVERSION

Opposite ways to direct and receive energy

SENSINGor

INTUITION

Opposite ways to take in information

THINKING

or

FEELING

Opposite ways to decide and come to conclusionsJUDGINGorPERCEIVING

Opposite ways to approach the outside world

Although each of us can and does use all of the preferences at least some of the time, people typically find one in eachpair more comfortable and natural than its opposite. Think of your choices as something like being right- or left-handed.
Both hands are valuable and useful, but most people use the hand they favor naturally more often and become more
adept with it. In the same way, your type preferences are choices between equally valuable and useful qualities. Your ENFP
results are described below.
THE WAY YOU DIRECT AND RECEIVE ENERGY

Extraversion
People who prefer Extraversion tend todirect their energy toward the outside
world and get energized by interacting withpeople and taking action.

Introversion
People who prefer Introversion tend todirect their energy toward their inner world
and get energized by reflecting on theirideas and experiences.

THE WAY YOU TAKE IN INFORMATION

Sensing
People who prefer Sensing tend to take in
information that is real and tangible.
They focus mainly on what they
perceive using the five senses.

Intuition
People who prefer Intuition tend to takein information by seeing the big picture.
They focus mainly on the patterns andinterrelationships they perceive.

THE WAY YOU DECIDE AND COME TO CONCLUSIONS

Thinking
People who prefer Thinking typically basetheir decisions and conclusions on logic,
with accuracy and objective truth theprimary goals.

Feeling
People who prefer Feeling typically basetheir decisions and conclusions on personaland social values, with understanding andharmony the primary goals.

THE WAY YOU APPROACH THE OUTSIDE WORLD

Judging
People who prefer Judging typicallycome to conclusions quickly and want tomove on, and take an organized,
planned approach to the world.

PerceivingPeople who prefer Perceiving typicallylook for more information before coming
to conclusions and take a spontaneous,flexible approach to the world.

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Your Type Description: ENFP
ENFPs see life as a creative adventure full of exciting possibilities. Unusuallyperceptive about people and the world, they are insightful about the presentand future. ENFPs experience a wide range of feelings and intense emotions.
IMAGINATIVEMOTIVATOR

They need affirmation from others and readily give appreciation and support.
ENFPs are innovators, initiating projects and directing lots of energy
into getting them going. They are stimulated by new people, ideas, andexperiences. They readily find meaning and significance in things andLife is full of possibilities

see connections that others don’t. They are likely to be curious, creative,

Enthusiastic, warm, imaginative

ENFPs value harmony and goodwill. They like to please others and will adapt

Make quick, confident connections
between events and information andproceed accordingly

imaginative, energetic, enthusiastic, and spontaneous.

to other people’s needs and wishes when possible. ENFPs tend to makedecisions by applying their personal values while keeping others’ needs inmind. They are likely to be warm, friendly, caring, cooperative, and supportive.
They have exceptional insight into possibilities in others and have the energy

Want frequent affirmation, readily

to help bring them to fruition.

appreciate and support others

ENFPs are usually lively, gregarious, and sociable, with a large circle of friends.

Spontaneous, flexible, verbally fluent,often rely on their ability to improvise

They are interested in almost everything and have a zest for life that draws
others to them. At the same time, they value depth and authenticity in theirclose relationships and will go to great lengths to create and support open
and honest communication.
ENFPs hate routine, schedules, and structure and usually manage to avoid
them. They are normally verbally fluent, even in extemporaneous situations;however, when talking about their deepest values, they may suddenly
become awkward and express their opinions with uncharacteristic intensity.
Others usually see ENFPs as personable, perceptive, persuasive, enthusiastic,spontaneous, and versatile.
Sometimes life circumstances have not supported ENFPs in the development
and expression of their Intuition and Feeling preferences. If they have notdeveloped their Intuition, ENFPs may fail to take in enough information,
mistrust their own insights, be uncertain, and accept others’ perceptions
too quickly. If they have not developed their Feeling, they may go fromenthusiasm to enthusiasm, never committing themselves, or they may makeoverly personal decisions.

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Your Unique Personality Type: ENFPThe two middle letters of your Myers-Briggs personality type show the two mental processes that make your type unique.
THE MENTAL PROCESSES

Taking In Information
SENSINGorComing to Conclusions
INTUITION

THINKING

orFEELING

Your two middle letters are N (Intuition) and F (Feeling). As an ENFP, you devote most of your energy to Intuition andsupport your Intuition with Feeling. Thinking (T) is not as appealing for your type and therefore is much less likely to beused. Least preferred and most rarely used of all is Sensing (S). ENFPs tend to develop Intuition and Feeling during the firsthalf of life, and at midlife they begin to find Thinking and Sensing more interesting and easier to use.
The letters of your type also show what others are most likely to notice about you—what you use in the outside world
versus what you reserve for your inner world of ideas and impressions. Here’s how that works for ENFP.
You use your favorite process, Intuition, mostly in the outer world of people, things, and activities; this is what people caneasily see when they observe you in action. You use your second process, Feeling, mostly in your inner world of thoughts
and ideas, where others are unlikely to see it. You tend to use your third and fourth processes, Thinking and Sensing,when a situation requires their use but quickly return to what is most natural and comfortable for you, Intuition andFeeling. Sensing is least appealing for you.

4 SENSING

1 INTUITIONN

Most undeveloped

Used most often and isbest developed

Used in the inner world

Used in the outer world

SF

3 THINKING
Relatively undeveloped
Used in either world

2 FEELING

T

Supports the #1 process andis second in development
Used in the inner worldYour type description takes all of the above into account in describing ENFPs in everyday life. Review your description
carefully. Does it match up with your self-knowledge? If the description makes you feel comfortably understood, thenthe Myers-Briggs personality type described for you is likely on target. The description is meant to help you trust anddevelop the preferences that come most naturally to you, while keeping in mind that, like most people, you use all of thepreferences from time to time, depending on what the situation calls for.

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Clarity of Your Preferences
Your MBTI responses also provide a picture of how clearly or consistently you chose your preference in each pair ofopposites. This preference clarity index (pci) is indicated in the graph below. A longer line suggests that you are quite sureabout a preference; a shorter line means that you are less sure about whether that preference truly describes you. Yourpreference clarity does not indicate how well developed your preferences are or how well you use them.
CLARITY OF YOUR PREFERENCES: ENFP
VERY
CLEAR

EXTRAVERSIONeSENSINGs

THINKINGtJUDGINGj

MODERATE

SLIGHT

MODERATE

CLEAR

VERY
CLEAR

•I

•FEELING•252015EXTRAVERSION | 26105INTUITION | 260INTROVERSIONINTUITION•30PCI RESULTS:

CLEAR

51015FEELING | 32025PERCEIVING30PERCEIVING | 25Do your assessment results seem to fit? Many find that their type results capture their personality attributes quite well.
Others find that changing one or more of the preferences in their four-letter type yields a type description that fits thembetter. If in doubt, consider these suggestions.
• Think back to your frame of mind when you took the assessment. Did you answer the questions describing whattruly comes most naturally and easily to you? Were your responses perhaps influenced by the situation in which you
answered the questions, or by how you felt you should respond? If your responses did not reflect your natural way ofbeing, then the type description presented for you may not entirely match.
• Was it hard to decide between the response options for some of the questions? If so, those choices may haveaffected your results and created a mismatch. You will find complete descriptions of all 16 Myers-Briggs personality
types in the Introduction to Myers-Briggs Type® booklet by Isabel Briggs Myers. Review them with your typepractitioner, who can assist you in finding the type that fits you best.

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