021: I wish I knew this… when taking over my first team, with Jordan Mendoza.
Jordan Mendoza is the host of the Blaze Your Own Trail Podcast. As a sales and training professional, Jordan helps people discover their Myers-Briggs 4 letter type, taking them from self-awareness to coming up with their personal Leadership philosophy. In this episode, Jordan and I discuss the Myers-Briggs assessment, how it has impacted his leadership style, and how he teaches leadership through the lens of the MBTI assessment.
Key Takeaways:
- Myers-Briggs (MBTI) is one of the most widely used personality assessments in the world
- Firstly, you, we, are all way more than just a type. We are humans first
- MBTI has 4 preference pairs that are opposites of each other:
- Extroversion/Introversion – we get our energy from the world (internally or externally)
- Sensing/Intuition – how we take in information
- Thinking/Feeling – how we decide and come to conclusions
- Judging/Perceiving – opposite ways we approach the world (and not people)
- We may be a version of each of these pairs and their opposites, but we don’t do them with equal ease
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About the host, Rob Fonte
Rob Fonte is the founder and President of Sarto Leadership Group, whose reputation has been built on being a transformational leader and inspirational coach with a passion for developing others. His twenty-year career spans across multiple disciplines including leading award-winning sales teams. Rob is an academically trained Executive Coach certified by The University of Texas and the International Coach Federation.