Webinar 1 - Using MBTI Type to Explore Your Leadership Identity

Sep 17, 2026

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A leadership-focused webinar explains how leadership differs from management and why self-awareness drives more effective leadership outcomes. It reviews key leadership features, presents factors that influence leadership such as organization type and leadership style, and introduces MBTI as an indicator of preferences rather than a personality test. The session covers MBTI type preferences, the E/I energy orientation framework, and emphasizes that successful leaders exist across all types.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryResearch & Report

FormatPDF

Pages25

Reading Time1 h 3 min

AccessFree to download

Series Objectives

Key Features of Leadership

Leadership vs Management

Self-aware Leaders are More Successful

Self-awareness and performance

What Influences Our Leadership?

Leadership style

MBTI Type Preferences

About the MBTI Assessment

Preferences, not personality traits

Jung’s Observations: Inner and Outer Worlds

The MBTI Dichotomies

Extraversion (E) or Introversion (I)

Extraversion–Introversion Differences

Energy direction and communication

2/12/2020 1 “Management is about persuading people to do things they do not want to do, while leadership is about inspiring people to do things they never thought they could.” Steve Jobs 2 SERIES OBJECTIVES 3 | HOUSEKEEPING | | | --- | --- | | | | 5 2/12/2020 | HOSTS/PRESENTERS | | | --- | --- | | | | | Jenny Inker, PhD, MBA, LALFA
Assistant Professor & Co‐Director
Assisted Living Administration Specialty Area Virginia Commonwealth University
Jennifer M. Pryor, MA, MS, LALFA
Gerontologist
Instructor
Gerontology Program Director
Joint Program Director, Assisted Living Administration Specialty Area Virginia Commonwealth University | | 6 7 | Learning Objectives | | | | --- | --- | --- | | | | | 8 9 2/12/2020 | Key features of leadership | | | | | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | A process rather than a state | | The rule of thirds: up, down, and sideways | | Every moment presents a chance to work on leadership! | | | | | | | 10 Leadership vs Management 12 11 | Successful leadership is rooted in | | --- | |
Behaviors and skills that are acquired and demonstrated
| 16 2/12/2020 Self‐aware leaders are more successful! • Leaders with greater self‐awareness: – More accurately assess their strengths/weaknesses – Incorporate information to improve performance 17 | Self‐aware leaders are more successful!
• Leaders with greater self‐awareness:
– More accurately assess their strengths/weaknesses
– Incorporate information to improve performance
• Leaders with positive “self‐other” agreement:
– Have higher performing followers
– Are more likely to be promoted | | | --- | --- | | • Leaders with inflated self‐regard have followers with lower:
– Job satisfaction
– Satisfaction with supervisor
– Organizational commitment | | 19 Self‐aware leaders are more successful! • Leaders with greater self‐awareness: – More accurately assess their strengths/weaknesses – Incorporate information to improve performance • Leaders with positive “self‐other” agreement: – Have higher performing followers – Are more likely to be promoted 18 What influences our leadership? C Organization type, location 20 2/12/2020 What influences our leadership? 21 What influences our leadership? C Organization type, location 23 | What influences our leadership? | | | --- | --- | |
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| 22 What influences our leadership? Leadership style MBTI® Type Preferences Leadership Skills leadership behaviors • Up • Down • Sideways Organization type, location C O N T E X T 24 2/12/2020 | What influences our leadership? | | | | --- | --- | --- | |
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T | | RESULTS | 25 27 What influences our leadership? C Organization type, location 26 About the MBTI® assessment • An indicator, not a test • Preferences, not personality traits • Forced choice questions sort preferences • No better or worse types • It’s about attraction, not ability 28 2/12/2020 29 We all live in two worlds: Jung’s observations The inner world of our own thoughts, feelings, and reflections We each have a preference for either the outer world or the inner world – but we inhabit both 30 31 2/12/2020 33 | | • There are successful leaders of all types
• There are no desirable or undesirable types
• There are differences within the same types
• Type does not predict ability
• Type does predict preferences!
• You are NOT your type! | | --- | --- | 35 | The MBTI® dichotomies
The MBTI® instrument indicates preferences on four pairs of opposites, called dichotomies:
Extraversion E or I Introversion
Sensing S or N Intuition Thinking T or F Feeling | | | | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Judging | J or | P | Perceiv

FAQs

How is leadership different from management in the webinar?

Management is framed as persuading people to do things they do not want to do, while leadership is framed as inspiring people to do things they never thought they could.

Why are self-aware leaders described as more successful?

The webinar links greater self-awareness to more accurate assessment of strengths and weaknesses, better performance through incorporating information, and stronger self-other agreement that is associated with higher-performing followers.

What does the webinar say about the MBTI assessment?

MBTI is presented as an indicator of preferences rather than a test, using forced-choice questions to sort preferences, with no better or worse types, and a focus on attraction rather than ability.

Sep 17, 2026

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