The Personality Types That Work Best as Leaders

Have you heard of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator personality test? It essentially states that everyone has a natural leadership style that correlates with different personality types. Of course, this means that some people may be better leaders than others. The experts at Banana Life do a fair bit of leading during our virtual online team-building sessions, so we decided to look into this a little more!

According to some research, the majority of the world’s leadership positions are held by people who exhibit preferences for thinking and judging, as opposed to feeling and perceiving.

The characteristics associated with thinking are analytical types who like solving problems with logic. These people are often reasonable, fair and tough-minded. Therefore, those who are judging types are very organised, systematic and big fans of decisiveness. The following personality types are those who work best as leaders. 

ENTP: Extroverted + Intuition + Thinking + Perceiving

An ENTP is often energetic, analytical, theoretical and enthusiastic. They thrive when it comes to solving problems creatively. Above all, the reason why they make great leaders is that they work well with others.

ENFJ: Extroverted + Intuition + Feeling + Judging

This personality type is social, warm, passionate, charismatic, empathetic, and imaginative. With powerful humanitarian values, they love positions that allow them to support others. Therefore their great communication skills make them great leaders, and they really love working with lots of people.

ESTJ: Extroverted + Sensing + Thinking + Judging

If you are logical, assertive, decisive, and results-oriented, then you are an ESTJ, the natural-born leader. These types of people have a tendency to take charge no matter what kind of job role they perform.

ENTJ: Extroverted + Intuition + Thinking + Judging

The ENTJ personality type is often very organised, critical, and logical. They really like to plan ahead and are very career-driven. As a result, this also makes them hard workers, which in turn results in this type often being a great leader as well.

Why does this matter?

If you have a little insight into your employee’s personality types, it makes it easier to guide them to the best role and environment. Everyone has a diverse personality, and if you acknowledge these differences, you’ll bring out everyone’s productive best.

Want to find out more about your team’s personalities?

The team at Banana Life can help you find out a lot more about your staff by running them through the gauntlet with our fun activities online. Get in touch for a demo today!