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FORT STEWART, Ga. – Leaders of 3rd Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, attended a leadership development workshop, Oct. 14, on Fort Stewart, Ga., to learn how personality types affect the way they lead.
The class, which was lead by Maj. Dan Hardin, the 4th IBCT chaplain, focused around the personality types as defined by the Myers-Briggs Type Indicators. The MBTI assessment is a questionnaire designed to measure preferences in how people perceive the world and make decisions through four categories: sensation, intuition, feeling and thinking.
“I think leaders need to really understand themselves, to know themselves and to know their strengths and weaknesses and assess that clearly,” said Hardin, a native of Dayton, Ohio. “What I like about [Myers-Briggs] is that it offers, I think, a balanced view of human behavior.
“Strengths and weaknesses are in all of us,” Hardin said.
The workshop included a practical exercise in which different groups with specific profiles were given a timed task. The practical exercise showed how different personalities tackled the tasks and offered participants an opportunity to guess which way their own personality type leaned in the four categories.
“I feel like I have a little bit of everything inside of me,” said 2nd Lt. Scott Delsart, a platoon leader with Company B, 3-7 Inf. “I think that the importance is to realize that we are going to lean mostly one way, but we need to try and find those different qualities within us in order to develop better relationships and better working environments.”
“There are very few times in the Army that we get that kind of instruction or are presented with an opportunity to increase our self awareness and this is one of those times,” said Hardin. “If you can know yourself, you have a better probability of controlling yourself and you have a better probability of a more positive interaction for a desired effect.”
Hardin added MTBI is used widely throughout the military and in other branches of government to provide individuals with a tool for productivity.
“Everyone kind of knows what they are, without having to take an exam, but this really describes in depth why we might be a certain way and what the implications might be,” said Delsart, a native of Green Bay, Wisconsin. “It’s definitely a good tool to have.”
After the workshop Delsart said he would like to see junior non-commissioned officers go through similar training.
“Those are the guys closest to our soldiers,” he said. “Each one of their soldiers will come from a different background; they’re going to have a different personality type. You can’t always take one approach to influence them. You have to step back, think about things that you can learn from a class like this and then apply it.”
The workshop provided 33 leaders from across the battalion with the opportunity to know more about their own personality type.
Delsart concluded, “If you can’t work with others, you will not be successful in the Army.”
| Date Taken: | 10.14.2014 |
| Date Posted: | 10.20.2014 10:44 |
| Story ID: | 145477 |
| Location: | FORT STEWART, GA, US |
| Hometown: | DAYTON, OH, US |
| Hometown: | GREEN BAY, WI, US |
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