Type and Teams

ISFJ

SiFeTNeisfj
1 Favorite process INTROVERTED
SENSING
2 Second process EXTRAVERTED
FEELING
3 Third process THINKING
4 Fourth process EXTRAVERTED
INTUITION
INTROVERSION SENSING FEELING JUDGING

Communication

ISFJs contribute by:

  • Listening carefully and being considerate of others’ needs
  • Presenting accurate information and checking the accuracy of information given by others

May irritate team members by:

  • Not championing their own ideas
  • Being too focused on specifics, facts, and details

May be irritated by team members who:

  • Get off track and don’t follow the agenda
  • Talk too much and interject random ideas

Can maximize effectiveness by:

  • Speaking up and sharing strongly held convictions with others
  • Challenging themselves to examine the larger implications of an issue or idea

Team Culture

ISFJs contribute by:

  • Showing sympathy, loyalty, and kindness
  • Lending stability, organization, and structure in the service of team goals

May irritate team members by:

  • Placing too high a value on traditions, institutions, and hierarchies
  • Being too serious or exacting

May be irritated by team members who:

  • Are disorganized or irresponsible or who lack commitment
  • Are loud, aggressive, or confrontational

Can maximize effectiveness by:

  • Basing respect on merit and competence as well as on title and position
  • Relaxing, allowing themselves and others to have fun

Leadership

ISFJs contribute by:

  • Quietly assisting the work of others in a nonthreatening, encouraging style
  • Honoring commitments and modeling thoroughness and follow-through

May irritate team members by:

  • Being reluctant to take on leadership roles
  • Expecting strict adherence to traditional roles and methods

May be irritated by team members who:

  • Dominate or act without regard for the welfare of others
  • Rely on improvisation to meet a goal

Can maximize effectiveness by:

  • Realizing that their ability to organize people lends itself to leadership
  • Appreciating that there are many ways to successfully meet goals, not all of which involve standard procedures

Change

ISFJs contribute by:

  • Being mindful of what has worked in the past to pave the way for a stable future
  • Supporting change that is of practical value to people

May irritate team members by:

  • Being overly pragmatic and focusing on the here and now
  • Wanting change to adhere to current rules or procedures

May be irritated by team members who:

  • Overlook the realistic concerns of people
  • Fail to acknowledge the value of the tried and true

Can maximize effectiveness by:

  • Considering what the current reality suggests about the future
  • Realizing that new guidelines may need to be developed to more effectively manage change

Problem Solving/Conflict Resolution

ISFJs contribute by:

  • Being thorough, organized, and task oriented in working toward solutions that benefit people
  • Carefully summarizing concrete and factual data

May irritate team members by:

  • Wanting the problem-solving process to follow tidy guidelines
  • Being too painstaking where details and specifics are concerned

May be irritated by team members who:

  • Pressure them to apply impersonal logic to a decision
  • Insist on defining a problem in terms of conceptual models or abstract theories

Can maximize effectiveness by:

  • Understanding that tightly controlling the process may prevent others from airing their feelings
  • Recognizing that not all facts are essential and indeed some may be trivial

Stress

ISFJs contribute to reducing team stress by:

  • Willingly taking on work to benefit the team
  • Being thoughtful and showing concern for the comfort and security of others

Under stress may irritate team members by:

  • Being too rule bound and conventional
  • Focusing on the negative, adopting a pessimistic outlook

Under stress may be irritated by team members who:

  • Fail to appreciate their diligence and conscientiousness
  • Make light of their worries and concerns

Can maximize effectiveness when under stress by:

  • Loosening up and trying new things
  • Reevaluating the facts, understanding that usually things are not as bad as they first appear