INFJ Ability and Job Satisfaction Characteristics!

You are INFJ, Introverted with Intuition, Feeling and Judging, with INFJ ability, or you are interested in someone who is, and you are perhaps seeking information regarding how the INFJ personality type and associated INFJ ability gleaned from the Myers Briggs Test can perform optimally and at their very best in the workplace. You may also be seeking information as to how INFJ ability can be maximally used in the workplace and how all this knowledge of INFJ ability can increase workplace motivation and job satisfaction for you, and your organization.

You can also learn how knowledge of INFJ strengths and weaknesses in the workplace, that is INFJ ability, can insure that the INFJ will not fall victim to job dissatisfaction which has been termed “Falsification of Type” and which is the core reason an estimated 70% of all the workers in the world dislike (or hate) their jobs!

INFJ Workplace Strengths

INFJ ability and strengths are many and would mean for you in the workplace that you:

• are someone who reaches understanding by contemplating and thinking, pondering things, someone who wants to really think about it
• are reflective, quiet, and prone to consider before acting
• prefer physical work space which allows for privacy and concentration
• participate and speak up after observing and formulating your own impressions and questions; may need to be asked what you think or feel
• regard meeting as taking time away from work and as places where more work gets generated or assigned
• are aware of internal guiding principles, philosophy, and commitments
• focus first on and are most interested in the big picture, global issues, future possibilities; you notice the “forest” before noticing the “trees”
• are speculative and work toward “what if”
• work in bursts, await inspiration, may skip around, pursuing what “strikes your fancy;” may work on several things at the same time
• want a team to have an engaging vision and mission; initiate and enjoy consideration of possibilities or theoretical matters
• arouse energy and zeal, especially for pursuing the mission and for innovations
• are amiable and approachable; are sensitive to others, sometimes at the cost of being direct
• often want to spend some time getting to know others and build relationships before getting to the work at hand
• believe the best work from a team will emerge from cooperation
• are sensitive to how others will react or be affected; promote harmony, conciliation, and well-being; seek win/win results
• urge actions congruent with individual values and the professed values of the organization
• are dependable, deliberate, decisive, and focused; stick to commitments, plans, and schedules
• may be uncomfortable proceeding without a plan

Basically those jobs/careers that would allow the INFJ to use the strengths listed above, INFJ ability, as a natural part of doing the job would be the jobs/careers providing maximum workplace motivation for the INFJ. With increased workplace motivation normally follows increased job satisfaction. Likewise, jobs/careers not allowing the INFJ ability to be used will provide much less workplace motivation and consequently much less job satisfaction for the INFJ personality type.

INFJ Workplace Weaknesses

INFJ personality and INFJ ability would include a tendency toward the following workplace weaknesses:

• may need to be asked what you think or feel
• may view meetings as naturally negative events that cause more work than is accomplished by having them
• will have difficulty seeing the big picture
• may have difficulty focusing on one thing for great amounts of time
• want the work of a team to be engaging vision and the mission may have trouble being realistic, practical and in-the-moment for too long
• will be uncomfortable to troubled proceeding without plans
• may initially see give and take as disruptive arguments and conflicts
• may not take “constructive criticism” well, may see it as personal

Now take a few moments and consider how INFJ’s behave and perform in the workplace from the following six aspects:

What Others Might Observe First

• are warm, cooperative, trusting, sensitive, tactful, and easy to get along with (though they may also keep their distance or seem aloof at first)
• have good communication skills, and persuasive, and are good listeners
• are dependable and persistent; they do what they agree to do and meet obligations
• seem to “have their act together”

Work Style

• prefer a supportive environment that is friendly and non-competitive and where harmony and praise are common
• see work as a mission or service-want work to make a difference for others and they want to grow through their work
• like variety and opportunities to be creative, and they dream up new approaches to the routine
• value independence and autonomy, and want to organize their own time, effort, and work environment

On Work Teams/In Groups

• are imaginative, have or generate ideas (though ideas may have to be drawn out of them), are comfortable with abstraction and complexity, and can synthesize multiple perspectives or diverse information
• encourage and empower others, want and give appreciation and affirmation, seek to create cohesion, and take a facilitative approach
• prefer to have both organization and structure and concern for people and human values; want the team to organize itself around vision and values
• are good at working on teams, though too much of a group can fatigue or overload them

Facing Change

• may experience tension between being too oriented toward newness and change and honoring traditions and what has proven to be comfortable for people
• look for and may be aware of significance in events that others may miss or deem unimportant
• use symbols and metaphors to visualize and talk about change
• may withdraw if their ideas are not accepted or their values are not respected

During Conflict

• prize and strive for harmony
• are often peacemakers and mediators who know how to resolve difficulties and are able to find some good in a painful situation
• may take on and/or internalize others’ concerns
• under stress, may want to be alone, may make absolute statements and speak harshly of themselves or others, and/or may become distracted and give considerable energy to a low priority tasks

Workplace Contributions

• strong and idealistic belief in people and in what they can accomplish, and encouragement of others to maximize their abilities and potential
• visionary-advocating their visions, values, and ideals
• insight into people, sometimes being aware of others’ needs before others themselves are
• promoting integrity and the alignment of values and actions for individuals, groups and organizations-calling upon organizations to “walk their talk”

May Be Experienced As

• having strong convictions, inner vision and lofty goals and sometimes as being single-minded and inflexible about how things ought to be
• indirect and private, so they may be hard to get to know
• self-critical, hard on themselves, and “perfectionistic”
• liking to dig into things deeply and sometimes as tending toward exhaustive exploration or over analysis

The Myers Briggs Test can be looked upon sometimes as an ability and personality test. Once you have identified your personality type via the Myers Briggs Test and have some understanding of the associated strengths, weaknesses, abilities and behaviors of your type you can better determine the kind of work environment and associated factors that provide the maximum workplace motivation and job satisfaction for you. Again, view the results of the Myers Briggs Test concerning work as a kind of ability and personality test.

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