Monday, June 29, 2009

What's Your Myers Briggs?

Dear Community,

A few weeks back, the Online Help Team did a personality type workshop. We structured our workshop loosely on the Colors framework, which is based on the Myers Briggs typology- the whole idea being, if you understand the strengths, weaknesses, motivations etc of your teammates, you will be a happier, more productive team.

The Online Help Team that sits in the US looks something like this

INTJ (me!)
ESFJ
ISTJ
ESTP
(yes, we're a small team)

To be honest, I would have expected us to be more similar than we are, but, the great thing is, because we are do different, the division of labor is easier. The things I'm bad at, Andrew is really good. The things Allison is good at, I'm bad at. So essentially, Im bad at most things and my teammates make up for it.... But the division of labor thing is a nicer way of putting it. :)

I also had all of the Top Contributors on the Help Forum take the quiz to see their type-which, for me, was the most interesting of all. Again, a huge range of personalities, all attracted to similar work, but all approaching it with their own flare.

The full Myers Briggs test is long, but I found that this quick little quiz is pretty accurate when it comes to identifying your type. If you have a minute, its fun to see where you shake out. Anyone who ends up being an INTJ wins a prize :)

Love,
Sarah

1 comment:

  1. Hello Sarah Hobbs,

    This is Tony Joseph from INDIA..>ASIA. First let me introduce about my self so, that there will be no PANDAS comming in between... :) Haa..I truly agree that Pandas are cute.

    - Sarah, I came from Middle class back ground, with minimum family support and 100% support from God Almighty.

    - I worked for HP-Hewlett-Packard for almost 4 years, as Seniour Tech support and have to Quit my job at the time of recession few months back.

    - Before joining HP, I do have my computer hardware services of my OWN. After joining HP, I used to shedule my Service work at the week ends.

    - When working in HP, I came to know about Google adwords and used to learn about it in free time (weekly 1-2Hrs) Max.

    - Now, after loosing my job, I am concentrating Fulltime on my Computer Hardware Service work and on my Google adwords.

    - Recently, I am cought up with some issue with my Google adwords account (tool) and my ads are not at all running smoothly, Clicks-0, Impressions-0

    - Sarah, I have seen your Google adwords reply to the Customers and wanted to be touch with U to learn some good things about Google adwords (Rules to be followed to run my Ads Smoothly), Delicious recipies and About Pandas tooo... :)

    So, now comming to my issue with goole adwords...I had recently created new adwords account, I had seleted the payment "Prepaid" and I do have Credit amount.

    - My ads are still showing as Click-0, impressions-0, so I contacted Google adwords team in India through Help button on Top of the Google adwords tool page.

    - G-team, replied back saying "["We disabled your AdWords account after a review of the landing page quality evaluations in this or a related account, because we believe that this kind of poor-quality site creates a seriously negative or possibly harmful user experience.]"

    - First of all, I didnot even start my Online campaigns yet. Now, I replied back to there Email and from the "HELP" from the tool but till date no reply from them (6:23 PM 2/4/2010). It is almost 4days now. I gave proper explanation with Proof.

    NOTE: The URL I used is "www.Worlds-Best-Quality-Natural-Herbal-Store.Com"

    Sarah, could help me to get this issue resolved, I will be the happiest person on this planet after U....and UR PANDA

    Needed any information about this PLZ reply back to this, I need your help Baddly.

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