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Q4 • 2022


FEATURE Building a


Great Team


Using Personality Tests


By Sherry Cry Chiger w


hether you’re leading an executive team or building a


lea ve t


small marketing team, personalities and c


individ


can determ whether y o lo perform


iduals’ e


iduals modi operandiper mine


you have a high- or w-performing group.


Especially in a tight labor market and a challenging competitive landscape, you want to be certain your team is working to their fullest potential—not just individually, but together.One tool that can help: personality assessments. When most laymen think of sting, me


personality tes of the Myers-B


som variation -Briggs pe Typ Indicator®


(MBTI®) comes to mind. You can fill out free versions of the Myers- Briggs questionnaire online to find out which of 16 personality types you are: INTJ (introverted- intuit


versus feelin


lin


uitive-thinking-judging), say, s ESFP (extroverted-sensing ling-perceptive). Having your


g-


employees take a test like that can be a fun activity. “For a team that doesn’t know each other well, what a cool way to build trust,” ysays Skye Mercer M , o


who offerso HR


H services and leadership coaching at Skye HR Consulting. “Why not get together and talk about our


strengths? There’s huge value in just participating in the exercise.”


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