Type Dynamic Indicator – TDI
Personality profiling can help you address issues such as communication, decision making, problem solving and influencing. You will recognise patterns of behaviour that work well and those that hold you back, providing invaluable information for your coaching programme
TDI (Type Dynamic Indicator) is a comprehensive approach to measuring Psychological Type based on the work of Carl Jung. It is considered to be an improved and updated alternative to Myers Briggs (MBTI). TDI is a proven framework for raising self-awareness and enables you to make more conscious choices about the way you approach your work and your life.
This questionnaire has been developed by one of the UK's most experienced and leading psychologists, and is supported by extensive research and validation.
What is Type Theory?
'Type' theory is built on the concept of opposites and the nature of preference. The report assesses style and preferences, not ability or competence.
Just as we can choose between using our left or right hand, the theory suggests that we can choose between using opposite sides of our character. If it feels more natural to use your right hand, you will use your left hand less, and yet you can use both if necessary.
Jung proposes that this applies to personality, our choices involve the following four pairs of opposite personality styles.
1. Extraversion (E) and Introversion (I) Where do you get your energy from?
- Do you thrive where there is a lot going on, or do you prefer a quieter environment?
- Do you prefer discussion and interaction with others or time to reflect?
- Do you get bored with silence and solitude or seek out the buzz of activity?
2. Sensing (S) and iNtuition (N )How do you perceive the world?
- Do you focus on the facts and the detail, or do you focus on the big picture?
- Are you more practical and down to earth or do you prefer new ideas and the future?
- Are you happy to deal with routines or prefer to disrupt routine in favour of novelty?
3. Thinking (T) and Feeling (F) How do you make your decisions?
- Do you need rationale and logical analysis or focus on values, relationships and feelings?
- Do you base decisions on objectivity or subjectivity?
- Do you need to know the logic or understand the value?
4. Judging (J) and Perceiving (P) How do you manage the world around you?
- Do you like to plan or play it by ear?
- Are you motivated by reaching the end goal or by starting a new project?
- Are you frustrated when interrupted or welcome the variety and distraction?
When you put the four preferred letters together, you get your personality type code, one of sixteen combinations. For example, INTJ indicates that you prefer Introversion, iNtuition, Thinking and Judging (remember, this indicates preferences only – an INTJ also usesExtraversion, Sensing, Feeling and Perception).
From here we explore the dynamic interaction between the elements of your 'type', and how the development of your type will enhance your performance.
The concept of preferences is not to pigeon-hole you, nor to limit you. It is possible for your profile to change as you develop your ideas about what is most important and rewarding to you, and as you develop and adapt your styles and behaviours.
TDI profiling, along with FIRO B, forms the basis of your Personal Development Programme.
