Myers Briggs and My Voice

From what has been written so far, I believe I know my voice fairly well.  I understand how she would react to family situations, schoolwork, and the way that she lives out her daily life.  This is similar to how the creators of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator first became interested in personality.  They wanted to understand characters in literature and were by modern terms, "people watchers".

Where does Noor get energy from?  Does she spend time with people and things or with her inner thoughts?  From what I gathered, Noor is an extrovert.  She enjoys being around people, and feels comfortable when she is working with others in a formal or informal setting.  She has a wide range of friends; from her girlfriends to the members of the mosque she belongs to and each play an important part in her life.  When looking at either sensing or intuition, she probably would enjoy more hands-on experiences, she likes to think beyond the norm and likes the exploration factor within her education major. This would mean she would fall into a category of intuition. The third preference pairing is dealing with thinking or feeling.  Being that she is a mother, can empathize with others,  and is lead by her emotions, I believe that she would be would be more feeling than thinking.  She believes that the best way to look at situations is being able to empathize with others.  Especially, in teaching, though she has to be fair and just, looking more in-depth about situations.  Questions arise such as: Did the child get a meal this morning? Was the kid up all night listening to his parents argue?  Is the kid getting harassed by someone at school?  The final pairing is judging and perceiving.  With being able to balance a family, school, and a social life, I believe that a person such as Noor would have to be organized, come into situations with a plan, and makes lists in order to get things accomplished.  With this all being said, Noor would be characterized as judging.

The final formation of Noor's personality type would be a ENFJ.  A person with a ENFJ is characterized as being warm, empathetic, acts as a catalysts for group/individual growth, additionally they are social, and provides leadership that inspires.  The one major thing that an ENFJ would need to work on is being able to know when to move on in certain situations.  In education, people have to understand that there are factors that are uncontrollable and out of our hands.  There are things we can fix and others that people need to do on their own. 

In order to help Noor achieve growth, an advisor may challenge her to volunteer so she may not see outcomes but understand she is doing well.  As a professor, I would encourage Noor to be reflective, understand that her actions effect the outcomes, and learn disciplinary techniques and classroom management skills in order to improve as being more of a thinker.  I would help Noor create a mindset in the classroom that the environment is volatile and sometimes, situations do not pay attention to a lesson plan.  The important part for a student affairs professional to do is to notice the context in which Noor leads her life, her major, and schoolwork in order to prepare to assist in the growth of the individual.

Taken from in-class handout:

The Myers & Briggs Foundation