Take advantage of the differences

Preference Doctrine - The Doctrine of What You Prefer

Preferential learning has helped millions of people around the world gain insights about themselves, and how they interact with others. The insights provide a basis for developing how they communicate, learn and work. It provides a powerful framework to build better relationships, drive positive change, benefit innovation and achieve quality.

Type indicators make Carl Jung's theory of psychological types both understandable and very practical. One measures people's consciousness for their own preferences. Preference, in this context, means what a person prefers when that person can choose freely.

The indicator measures preferences along four “main lines” (dimensions) in the personality with 8 preferences distributed across the 4 dimensions. From the 8 different preferences, type understanding for each person shows a combination of 4 preferences—the one that the person prefers on each dimension. In total, 16 different types emerge, each of which has its own unique characteristics, strengths and potential pitfalls.

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The preference indicator is not a test...

This powerful tool is often mistakenly referred to as the Type test or the personality test. The preference indicator is not a test, but an expression of how conscious we are of what we prefer.

Type Indicator is a non-evaluative psychological tool. That is, the indicator says something about how people can be different, without this sorting into “good” or “less good”. The indicator is based on the Swiss psychologist C.G. Jung's teachings on psychological types.

Type understanding is easy to use and easy to understand. It makes it possible to say something about what is typical of a person, i.e. what falls naturally for the person to do (the person's preference) in a given situation, without the person necessarily having to act the same all the time.

Type understanding is useful in many contexts. It can help us understand the similarities and differences between ourselves and other people, why we prefer some tasks and ways of working over others, why we quickly “find the tone” with some people, while we may perceive others as more difficult to communicate with.

Type understanding is valuable at, among other things:

Career Development and Career Counseling
Team Development/Department/Corporate Development
Leadership Development
Sales/Service Training
Workplace environment development
Conflict management
Competency development/personal development
Choice of profession

Some limitations of the model:

No system can but imply similarities and differences between people.Type Indicator is also no exception
Says as little about each person's unique personality as any other system
All adult people use more or less all preferences.
Nevertheless, these limitations do not deprive the practical usefulness of the type indicator

Jung's intention:

Don't just classify people into groups
More to examine the difficult topic of” personality” in a methodical way.
Typology is primarily a critical tool for the user who needs “unambiguous” angles and guidelines.
Type Indicator is, in a sense, a “psychological compass”.

Jung warned against:

“Even in medical circles, the opinion has spread that my therapy technique consists of pushing clients into the system, and then giving them the corresponding good advice.
Jung said, “My typology is more of a means of sorting through an overwhelming amount of psychological material, and not a method of putting labels on people.”

Type Indicator

Type Indicator is a simple and powerful tool.
Helps us understand how people can develop positively- as individuals, and in collaboration with each other

Advantages of Type Indicator

Easy to use — easy to understand
Does not divide into “winners” and “losers” types
Positive human vision as a foundation

Type Indicator can be used for:

Identifying strengths and development needs
Facilitates better collaboration and communication in the workplace
Deal with conflicts constructively
Create mutual respect and understanding
Create better results

Type Indicator Professional Solid:

Satisfies quality requirements imposed on psychological tools

Why use Type Indicator?

Professionally managed, analyzed and interpreted
Indicates the individual's preferences
Tools that can follow the organization- get better with use

Practical utility:

Better motivation
Get a logically ordered model of human behavior
Understanding emotions from an objective framework
Communicate more effectively with others
Working together better at home and at work
Understand why something is easy for some, heavier for others
Reducing unproductive conflicts
Identify strengths and opportunities in the group
To get a theory that is easy to understand.

Development trend and critical areas of change:

Each era must develop organizational forms that suit
The only way is to change organizations is to change their culture, i.e. the tacit values and norms of the organization's daily life
Doing so requires a high degree of social awareness on the part of the organization's members

Preference understanding and Type Insight can contribute by increasing social awareness.

Type Indicator and practical utility: