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Majors PTI™

The Majors Personality Type Inventory™ (PTI™) is an instrument designed to help your clients learn valuable information about how they direct their energy, take in information, make decisions, and how they orient themselves to their environment. The result is the popular 4-letter personality type code that is based on Jungian Type Theory (16 Personality Types) and is used by organizations worldwide (see below).

Personality type theory can help you understand why some situations are enjoyable and energizing, while others are uncomfortable and draining. Developed by Dr. Mark Majors, the Majors PTI™ is intended to help you in the process of self-understanding and continued personal and professional growth.

The Majors PTI™ is a shorter, less expensive alternative to other Jungian Type instruments and is more accurate. Unlike the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® instrument, the PTI™ does not use a forced choice format for item responses. Instead, the PTI™ uses levels of similarity to provide clarity of results and increased precision.

Business Applications

The Majors PTI™ can be used for the business applications listed below. In addition, data from the PTI™ can be mapped to the results of the Breckenridge Culture Indicator™ (BCI™) to: a) establish the “fit” of key players within an organization’s culture, and b) quantitatively assess the distribution of an organization’s leadership and management bench strength.

The Majors PTI™ is a B-Level instrument that requires training and qualification to administer. People who have a degree in psychology or counseling, and have had psychometric coursework are qualified to use the Majors PTI™. People who have been qualified to use the MBTI® instrument, Majors PT-Elements™, Golden™ Personality Type Profiler, or other instruments where the coursework included training in psychometrics and test interpretation are qualified to use the Majors PTI™. Consistent with these standard guidelines, ethical use of the Majors PTI™ requires that people have a personal knowledge of the theoretical model and psychometric properties of the Majors PTI™ instrument, as well as proper methods and practices of interpretation.

All other people must complete Majors PTI™ qualifying program in order to administer the instrument to others. Call the Breckenridge Institute® today at 1-800-303-2554 to explore ways we can help you use this powerful tool to harness the invisible power of your culture.

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