Why You Need to Know Your Personality Type 

Firstly, it’s important to understand that personality typing is not designed to classify a person or to say that one personality is better than another. Each personality has its unique characteristics, strengths, and weaknesses. An empowering personal development tool, personality typing will help you to:   

• Understand your thoughts, feelings, and motivations.
• Identify your strengths and weaknesses. 
• Make smarter education and career choices.  
• Be confident in a job interview.
• Network successfully.  
• Be happy in your workspace. 
• Maintain healthy relationships. 
• Live your best life.

Introduction to Personality Typology 

The road to modern personality typology was first paved by Carl Jung, a Swiss psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst. Based on Jung’s work, psychologists Isabel Briggs Myers and Katharine Briggs created the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). The MBTI identifies 16 different personalities, and it is one of the most popular methods of personality typing today.  

To further explain how people differ in the way they use their cognitive functions, Myers and Briggs use the following preferences for their self-evaluation personality assessment. 

1. Introversion (I) or Extraversion (E). Where you get your energy from. Do you draw your energy from your inner world or the external world and people? 
2. Sensing (S) or Intuition (N). How you receive information. Do you prefer to use your senses to receive information from your surroundings, or use your intuition to interpret and add your meaning? 
3. Thinking (T) or Feeling (F). How you make decisions. Do you take a logical approach, or do you prefer to look at people and circumstances before deciding? 
4. Judging (J) or Perceiving (P). How you interact with the outside world. Do you prefer to have things decided and organized or do you like to remain open to new information and options? 

The letters that are assigned to each of the above preferences make up a four-letter code for each of the 16 personality types. This simple coding system shows you how each of the four preferences interacts, and which one you tend to use first.  

How you use these preferences can change over time and some of these preferences may be used more often than others.  

For example, an ENFJ person is described as an extroverted person who uses intuition, feeling, and judging preferences. 

Personality Profile of the ENFJ 

ENFJs are extroverts which means they draw energy from the external world, and they like to be around lots of people.  

Extroverts are easy to spot as they are friendly, cheerful, talkative, and energetic. Wherever there is a party, an extrovert will be there making everyone laugh with their jokes and stories. Despite their constant cheerfulness and light-heartedness, ENFJs are loyal to friends and family.

ENFJ characteristics 

Like the INFJ, the ENFJ is very rare, and approximately 2-5% of the US population have this personality. Despite their rarity, ENFJs are the strongest “people-focused” extroverts. They are extremely gregarious and can connect easily with a wide range of people. 

ENFJs are also known by the nicknames “The Giver”, “The Protagonist” and “The Teacher” because they are warm-hearted, kind, compassionate, generous, empathetic, and nurturing. They focus on ideas and concepts rather than facts and details. 

Giver/Protagonists are wholeheartedly committed to helping people. When they see injustice, they will not stand idly by and do nothing. Just like a storybook hero, they will embrace a humanitarian quest to defend and take action for the poor, the bullied, and the socially disenfranchised. 

ENFJs are good leaders because they are confident, charismatic, and optimistic. They are highly organized, provide a clear vision for the future, and have smart problem-solving skills. 

While they are ambitious, everything ENFJs do is for the common good. They are so dedicated to their philanthropy, they may ignore their own needs or even put themselves in dangerous situations to further their cause.  

ENFJs are unique extroverts. Even though they are people-orientated, they are also task-orientated, and focused but also imaginative.  

While they are creative and lovers of art and culture, ENFJs are intellectual. Continually absorbing knowledge and honing their skills is extremely important to them so that they can become more proficient at caring for others.  

The future is more important to them than the present, so they need to be mindful of the little details which are just as important as the big picture. 

Cognitive functions 

Intuition 

Intuition is very important for ENFJs as they rely on this cognitive ability to receive information from their surroundings and determine future outcomes. They interpret and add meaning to the stored sensory data from their insightful impressions and perceived patterns that have been picked from the external world. 

ENFJs might explain their intuition as having a “hunch” or a “gut feeling” about a certain situation or person and the strange thing is, they are often right about their “hunches.” 

If their intuition tells them that a certain person may not be genuine or has suspect motives, an ENFJ may warn you to stay away from that person. They may even stop supporting a cause because of their prophet-like perceptions. 

Feeling 

As feeling people, ENFJs prefer to make decisions based on their emotions as well as their values, beliefs, and ideals. They like to please others so their decisions may be subjective to other people’s feelings. 

Even though they are motivated by their heart, ENFJs are no shrinking violets, and they do not back down easily from challenges. 

Judging 

An organized life is important for ENFJs. Their judging preference helps them to maintain the order and stability that is necessary for them to function in a rapidly changing world.  

They like to have a plan rather than be completely flexible and spontaneous. Once everything is sorted and decided, an ENFJ will feel at ease with the world. 

ENFJs maintain an ordered life by making careful judgments about situations and people and following a systematic way of thinking. They will often have a particular routine, schedule day-to-day activities, and use a list to keep them on track. Once they have met their deadlines and responsibilities; they can relax and have fun.