Jungian personality types and team role analysis

Jungian personality assessment characterized Maria as ESFJ, or an extroverted, sensing, feeling and judging person. This suggests that she is a team member who is most 'alive' when she is engaged with the social world of others, an important aspect of both being a leader as well as a team player. Her sensing characterization suggests a person who is observant and likes to make decisions based in factual and concretely demonstrated analysis, not according to abstract theories. However, her feeling characterization also suggest that she possesses a sense of empathy, and means she can offer the group emotional as well as logical understanding. Maria's judging orientation suggests that she likes things to take place in an orderly fashion, according to rules, and a timetable.

This combination of feeling and logic suggest an ideal leader.

Similarly, Myranda, an ESTJ is also a social and outwardly directed, extroverted 'people person,' with sensing and judging orientations to offer the group practical advice and structure, but her thinking orientation means she is more apt to make decisions on thoughts, not feelings, which can be helpful when the group needs a cool-headed and unbiased analysis. Myranda seems like an ideal researcher, treasurer, or secretary who keeps the meeting's minutes and sets the agenda.

To counteract such a love of logic and structure in the characters of her two teammates, however, Kimberly, an ENFP can offer an intuitive, feeling, and perceiving orientation, using intuition and less logically and time-conscious ways of viewing the world. Intuition allows for more 'leaps' in understanding, and more creative ways to view the world, although her extroversion and sensitivity to others will allow her to communicate such feelings to the world with greater ease than Scott. Kimberly would be an ideal marketing or sales person.