If the only tool you have is a hammer...

Great personal test.

I'm a ESTJ.

I'm an INTJ. Since we can't physically talk to each other this is at least another way for us to get to know each other and where there view are coming from.

To answer the original question, I like the hammer quote because it is to the point and sums up all the information concisely.

I'm a skeptic, Gord, but Myers Briggs has worked in too many situations with too many people (in just my personal experience) for me to dismiss it.

Curiously enough, in some Myers Briggs manuals there is a description of certain MB types who will dismiss MB personality typing out of hand! I just don't remember which types those were...

On the other topic, the leader BBQ/Christmas Cheer/leader family tobogganing days/etc. are helping to reduce the 'silo' tendencies in our group. Sections are in better touch. As a note to those trying this, approach the spouses of leaders when planning leader and 'leader families' - they are often more 'into' getting out for some fun with their kids than the leader is!

Jim

If the only tool you have is a dutch oven, you will see every problem as cobbler.

INFP, always have been, always will be...

INTJ here, and also kinda skeptical about the MB. It's a good idea, but can be over applied.

I've found the planning meetings are a good time to get to know the other leaders better. The challenge is often during the regular meetings the kids are occupying all our attention.

As for the broader section; we have the same silo issue. I've met our area commissioner and that's it outside of my section. I've only been around since December, but still...

I too am skeptical, because I'm an ENTJ:

slightly expressed extravert
distinctively expressed intuitive personality
slightly expressed thinking personality
distinctively expressed judging personality

Not to be a bummer, but referencing an earlier point, personality tests are very complex and are, in their true form, administered by a psychologist or psychomestrist with training in the field. The MB test simply reinforces our natural inclination to catgorise and catalogue complex information to make for simpler processing.

To say that "I always have been and always will be" a certain type of personality is bound to lock you into a bit of a mental box. Personalities change over time and adapt to experience.

INTJ