What is MBTI?
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is one of the most widely used personality frameworks in the world. It classifies people into one of 16 types based on four psychological dimensions:Extraversion (E) / Introversion (I)Sensing (S) / Intuition (N)Thinking (T) / Feeling (F)Judging (J) / Perceiving (P)
Each person ends up with a four-letter code (like ENFP, ISTJ, INTP) that gives insight into how they communicate, process information, and make decisions (themyersbriggs.com).
Despite long-standing debates about its scientific validity, MBTI is still used by over 10,000 companies, schools, and agencies globally - mainly for leadership training, team-building, and personal development (wikipedia).
Why MBTI still matters at work
While MBTI doesn’t predict job performance, it’s valued for what it does do well:
- Improves communication by helping teams understand different styles.
- Reduces friction by showing how colleagues prefer to work and decide.
- Builds awareness around potential blind spots in collaboration or leadership.
That’s why HR professionals, team leads, and coaches often use MBTI in onboarding, conflict resolution, or leadership development (cmg-agency.com).
Real MBTI profiles, backed by meeting data
Ulla works with internal tools to provide rich personality insights (including MBTI and Big Five) mapped directly from interaction patterns - not from transcripts or metadata.
By analysing how people interact in meetings - how they speak, contribute, listen, take initiative - Ulla generates MBTI-style reports for every team member. These reports reflect actual behaviour, not self-assessments, and are based on patterns across real working conversations.
This helps team leads and HR professionals understand how different personality types show up in collaboration - and where support or balance might be needed.
For example, Ulla can identify when a colleague with an INTP profile (analytical, quiet, big-picture thinker) is consistently invited to fast-paced status calls where their voice is missing - suggesting a mismatch between format and personality.
And unlike standard MBTI assessments, Ulla grounds its analysis in real behaviour: speech patterns, meeting participation, interaction style, and topic focus.
It’s not just theory. It’s dynamic personality awareness, integrated into your everyday collaboration.
MBTI in the context of AI: 2025 trends
- AI researchers are increasingly exploring how MBTI-style frameworks can help optimise communication, improve team composition, and personalise digital tools (arxiv.org).
- MBTI is also being paired with real-time analytics (like those from Ulla) to inform leadership training and reduce team burnout before it escalates.
And yes, Ulla also supports Big Five personality models - coming in the next article 😉
Should you rely on MBTI alone?
No - and Ulla doesn’t either.
MBTI is a useful lens, but it should always be part of a broader understanding. It’s great for discussion and awareness, but it doesn’t replace feedback, performance, or emotional intelligence.
That’s why Ulla gives you both:
- MBTI reports to understand personality preferences
- Meeting analytics to see how those preferences show up in practice
Used together, they help team leads spot patterns, support quiet voices, and fine-tune meeting dynamics in ways no personality test alone ever could.
TL;DR
MBTI is still a relevant tool in 2025 - especially when it’s grounded in real data.
Ulla offers automated MBTI insights based on how people behave in meetings, not how they say they behave in a quiz.
It’s personality awareness, backed by analytics.And for any team that values both people and performance, that’s a powerful combination.
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