Type and Teams

ENFP

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1 Favorite process EXTRAVERTED
INTUITION
2 Second process INTROVERTED
FEELING
3 Third process THINKING
4 Fourth process INTROVERTED
SENSING
EXTRAVERSION INTUITION FEELING PERCEIVING

Communication

ENFPs contribute by:

  • Responding appreciatively to different viewpoints
  • Articulating values, possibilities, and generalities with enthusiasm

May irritate team members by:

  • Talking too much or randomly interjecting ideas
  • Persuading others to follow a plan without a thorough investigation of facts and specifics

May be irritated by team members who:

  • Concentrate on details rather than possibilities
  • Interrupt or criticize others

Can maximize effectiveness by:

  • Speaking less, reflecting more
  • Investigating facts and realities before rallying others to a course of action

Team Culture

ENFPs contribute by:

  • Striving for diversity and fostering cooperation and fun
  • Providing creativity, energy, and warmth

May irritate team members by:

  • Being too flighty, flitting from cause to cause
  • Expecting others to be comfortable with a free-flowing, open-ended approach

May be irritated by team members who:

  • Restrict options and won’t at least consider the impossible
  • Fail to acknowledge the importance of insight and imagination

Can maximize effectiveness by:

  • Determining what is most important to them and sticking to it
  • Recognizing the usefulness of structures and guidelines

Leadership

ENFPs contribute by:

  • Democratically soliciting everyone’s opinions and negotiating differences
  • Acting as a spokesperson for new ideas that relate to people

May irritate team members by:

  • Promising more than is reasonable or possible
  • Neglecting to give specific directions

May be irritated by team members who:

  • Don’t allow everyone to participate or have a role
  • Place too many constraints on how and when a project should be completed

Can maximize effectiveness by:

  • Prioritizing projects and saying no
  • Offering others a detailed blueprint of what is desired so that the job is done right

Change

ENFPs contribute by:

  • Joyfully embracing the novel and untried
  • Supplying energy to initiate a new course of action

May irritate team members by:

  • Encouraging change for change’s sake
  • Failing to appreciate the merits of tradition and past experience

May be irritated by team members who:

  • Are overly cautious or resistant to change
  • Cling to established routines when adaptation is required

Can maximize effectiveness by:

  • Understanding that change is not always desirable or necessary
  • Recognizing that the past can offer direction for the future

Problem Solving/Conflict Resolution

ENFPs contribute by:

  • Seeing the need to include people and values in the decision-making process
  • Being imaginative and flexible in their approach to a problem

May irritate team members by:

  • Wanting to keep the process open, thereby causing delays in decision making
  • Losing track of the details in their enthusiasm for the big picture

May be irritated by team members who:

  • Fail to consider the impact on people
  • Are narrow-minded or see the problem in black-and-white terms

Can maximize effectiveness by:

  • Recognizing the importance of setting limits on the process so that a decision can be made
  • Understanding that a better solution will arise if it is supported by facts and specifics

Stress

ENFPs contribute to reducing team stress by:

  • Injecting fun and spontaneity
  • Keeping everyone energized by fostering variety

Under stress may irritate team members by:

  • Being overly optimistic
  • Overextending themselves and then shutting down, thereby breaking commitments

Under stress may be irritated by team members who:

  • Insist on following rules, upholding entrenched bureaucracy
  • Expect precision of facts and figures

Can maximize effectiveness when under stress by:

  • Carefully examining details and data to come to a more realistic understanding
  • Screening projects rather than trying to do them all