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Models can be used as "bridges" across personality differences.
Personality type models ...
are frameworks to learn to appreciate the differences between people.
Valuable insights are derived from models including Interaction
Styles, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator®, Temperaments, Social Styles,
DiSC®, True Colors, and Thomas-Kilman Conflict Modes.
Notes on personality
type models ...
"not a way to manipulate people into buying what they don't need
... [but rather, they're] tools that, when used appropriately, will
change not only how you listen but what you hear and thus how you
connect."
- Brad Cooper
Personality "type" approaches are different from "trait" approaches.
Type models are neutral regarding emotional health, intellectual
functioning, and psychological adaptation; every personality type
is equally necessary and good. There is no right or wrong to type
preferences; each personality type identifies normal and valuable
human behaviors. Type inventories such as the Myers-Briggs Type
Indicator® do not "tell" a person who she or he is; rather, it is
a tool to indicate preferences, and each person must self-determine
a best-fit type for himself or herself. It is ethical only for Qualified
MBTI® Practitioners to assist individuals in this self-discovery
process.
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