This professional handout is meant to go with Earle Page’s Looking
at Type but is quite suitable to use independently. It would be useful
with both adults and teenagers.
The ideal time to use it would be after administrating the MBTI® instrument and explaining the eight preferences. It could also be used independently from Jung/Myers theory in a situation where you were asked to talk about the it but not actually give the Indicator.
The materials consist of a 2 page leader’s guide, a Tug-of-War worksheet and 4 page leaflet with statements about each of the preferences. A package has 25 copies of the worksheet and the leaflet. The leader has two people alternately read statements on the four dimensions of behaviour. People check off statements that apply to them. They tally up their scores and then place a mark on the appropriate Tug-of-War diagram showing which side of the knot they are on. (Of course people have to be cautioned that this is not a valid indicator in of itself.) An additional feature of the four functions is that people are to mark them as statements they would make out loud or seen by others, or ones they would make to themselves or not likely observed by others. This introduces the concept of the attitudes of the functions.
I liked this handout as it involved people in the presentation and the Tug-of-War diagram was attractive. Since so much of a presenter’s work involves dealing with basic concepts, this could be a frequently used set of materials.