MBTI Profiling

Personality profiling for realising team and personal potential - Jungian Framework & the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator ®.

Footprint Directions Principal, Jane Oliver, was accredited by the Australian Psychologists Press in 1991 and has used the MBTI with hundreds of personnel in Australia.

For details about this most reliable instrument and why it is used by over 5 million people a year, view the Centre for Applied Type website - www.capt.org

Teams that have worked with Jane Oliver in Australia include:

Thomas Noble & Russell - Auditors & Accountants - all senior management and the majority of middle managers (2007-2009) - includes the use of the Lencioni planning model
Northern Rivers Surgical Supplies Pty Limited – Senior Management and the Lencioni planning model (2007)
Community Connections North Coast: Senior Management profiling and the Lencioni planning model (2007)
Community Transport (Northern Rivers) – MBTI – introduction (2007) - 1 day only
Disability & Aged Information Service Inc. –team building using MBTI and the Lencioni planning model (Stage 1) 2006-07
YWCA – Lencioni team building and Death By Meeting and Jungian concepts (2006)
Executive Leadership Conference 2006 - Anglican Schools Commission - St. Johns College, University of Queensland (10 senior principals and business managers).
Northern Rivers Community Transport
Anglican Schools Commission Office (Diocese of Brisbane)
Norco (Lismore) Finance & IT Department
Northern Rivers Regional Chamber of Commerce & Industry Inc.
Northern Rivers Regional Development Board
Brisbane Young Entrepreneurs
Anglican Schools Commission (Office)
Learnscope (Northern Rivers) project
The Family Centre Community Projects Inc.
Corporate Vision (Sydney) with D&D Consulting
Sheraton Hotels (Sydney) with D&D Consulting

Additionally more than 50 individuals have chosen to work with Jane Oliver in addressing their "Type Development” requirements. Contact Jane to discuss your MBTI and Jungian Type framework to explore strengths, predictable behaviours and blind spots.

Download a humorous view of the 16 Types as revealed through MBTI Prayers here.

An Expanded Interpretative Report (EIR) sample is available for download here.

To see the range of the 20 facets of the Expanded MBTI Report that Form Q explores, download this simple 1 page document.

Jane Oliver is the only accredited advanced administrator of the indicator in the Northern Rivers region, and you can undertake the full online questionniare by contacting her: jane@footprintdirections.com. This EIR approach is recommended for people with significant responsibility in the workplace, a desire to further explore their first step MBTI report, or for those confused with their reported Type. For under $100 you can have the questionnaire, 18 page report and a brief analysis. To read about Jane's comprehensive expertise in the MBTI field, download a 1 page (76kb) summary "About Jane Oliver" here, or see below.

Contact: jane@footprintdirections.com or telephone 61-2-6688 2081.

Jane Oliver, Senior Partner, Footprint Directions
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator accredited administrator

Jane was educated in Brisbane and studied her Bachelor of Arts at the University of Queensland up until moving to Sydney. She transferred her undergraduate studies to include industrial psychology to the University of Sydney in 1984. Her current research in Sustainable Development examines equity, economic and ecological change management from an emotional construct.

In 1990, while working as a training manager with Apple Computer Australia, Jane was introduced to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator by an INTP barrister (who later became her mother in law). A longstanding working relationship developed while Jane became accredited by the Australian Psychologists Press to administer the Myers Briggs Type Indicator. She was one of the first non-psychologists permitted to administer the Indicator without supervision. She remains the most experienced administrator in the region where she lives, and achieved advanced accreditation status for the latest Expanded Interpretations in February 2006.

When setting up her own consultancy firm, (1993) she used the Indicator alongside that INTP barrister, with 440 personnel from the Sheraton Hotel chain, including senior management and front-line staff. Matching it with a complex 9-month continuous improvement program, she went on to explore

the challenges leaders and managers face in the workplace,
problem solving client service communications in self-improvement team environments, and also
provided comprehensive small-team leadership training to assist in achieving a targeted 18% staff redundancy program without industrial issue during a significant recession.

Within another two years, Jane had provided MBTI-based management consultancy services to the most-funded NGO in Australia of the day (The AIDS Council of NSW), the corporate change agent Corporate Vision using both DISC and the MBTI for the Commonwealth Bank's restructuring in the post-recession 1990s, and three educational services including Apple Computer's Training Unit and the Department of Education.

By early 2000 Jane was working with 120 small businesses in regional NSW in a Department of Education & Training funded pilot project that examined barriers to successful communications and management. She worked with the Regional Chamber of Commerce to develop e-commerce strategic planning, introducing clients to the world of "Type Development" and what opportunity it presented for saving money in their workplaces. In 2001 Jane was acknowledged by the Department for the highest standards of facilitation and innovation seen in the Professional Development project sector across Australia for that year.

Alongside the commercial work Jane enjoys an ongoing relationship with many community-based organisations. Types collect in groups, so it was no surprise to find many of people in the region she lives and works in, shared the common dialect of similar Types. Jane found a niche in working with troubled organisations that

had complex human resources problems,
usually suffered from lack of Type diversity in the workplace, and
had an inability to address pitfalls as well as strengths in a systematic, reliable and validated way.

In the past three years, Jane used her MBTI skills and Jungian theory knowledge to develop an Attorney-General's Department project that aims to increase awareness and reduce conflict for parents in entrenched conflict. She also provided MBTI-based management services to the Family Centre Tweed Heads, Anglican Schools Office (Qld) and 7 senior personnel from Australian Anglican schools, the Norco Dairy Corporation, the Ballina & District Community Services Association (the district's largest community services group), the Disability & Aged Information Service, Brisbane Young Entrepreneurs, the Department of Commerce, and other smaller organisations.

In working with senior management in mentoring or strategic development roles, Jane has used the MBTI with Patrick Lencioni models to examine team functionality, leadership restraint and growth, and enjoys the challenges presented by gaining such measured new awareness, confidence and skills the MBTI provides. An example of a firm that has expanded the capacity of its investments is Thomas Noble Russell, Accountants & Auditors who have worked with Jane to ensure their critical Human Resources outcomes are achieved.