Accept yourself and others just as you are. Focus on your strengths and use your knowledge of people's personality preferences to avoid conflicts and power struggles.

Understanding your personality type and those of your loved ones and co-workers will help you avoid arguments due to misunderstandings and let you get on with the business of building rewarding relationships that will stand the test of time.

WHAT YOU GET FOR 99 CENTS:

Section I: Start your assessment - click to open

  • This 62-item TypeFocus Type Indicator has gained the respect of professional personality type practitioners because it has proven to be a reliable and valid assessment. It is the same indicator used by all our TypeFocus programs – it has not been watered down for this app.

Section II: Understand Yourself - click to open

  • Personality Results - summarizes your unique results
  • Your Strengths – your results are related to your relationship strengths so you don’t have to know a lot about personality theory to make immediate use of these insights
  • Your Blind Spots – your results are tailored to understanding how your strengths may lead to blind spots in your relationships and how to overcome them
  • Your Four Letters – this is the theory behind your results – and is tailored to your specific results
  • Rewarding Careers – become aware of how your personality relates to job satisfaction.
  • Results Don’t Fit? – explains why your results may not seem to be accurate and gives you options to correct it.
  • Preference Graph – shows how “clear” your results are.

Section III: Understand Your Friends - click to open

  • Wheel of Questions – displays thought-provoking questions that are good ice-breakers when meeting someone new or great fun at a party with your friends.
  • Your List of Friends – lets you add your friends so now you can see where you are the same and where you are different and how to build rewarding relationships regardless of your results. This is your PAYOFF! Rewarding relationships with your friends, family, co-workers and loved ones – more honest and accurate, less conflict and heartache.

Section IV: Videos - click to open

  • Myths of Introversion – explains how introverts are unappreciated in our extroverted culture
  • TypeFlex – explains how to communicate with different personalities
  • Reframe – explains how to view differences as positive and build on those differences
  • Stages of Development – explains how we progress from frustration to appreciation of differences
  • How to Argue – regardless of one's personality there some ways of handling conflict that are more effective than others
  • How to Listen – probably the single most important relationship skill to develop
  • How to Apologize – everyone hurts their loved ones eventually – learn the most effective way to restore your relationship
  • Psychometrics – explains how we can say that our TypeFocus Type Indicator is trustworthy

Section V: Share - click to open

  • The usual social media links are available so you can share with your friends, family, co-workers and loved ones.

About Us - click to open

TypeFocus is a leading developer of online personality type resources. Established in 1997, TypeFocus is currently used by organizations across the world, including schools, employment agencies, colleges, universities and corporations.

With an established reputation for quality content, innovative technology and exceptional customer service, TypeFocus has created a loyal band of clients.

TypeFocus is committed to continually updating and improving our programs to better serve clients now and in the future. To this end, we invest heavily in research and development, we listen carefully to our clients' needs and expectations, and we seek out complementary partnerships and alliances to ensure TypeFocus remains at the forefront of personality type online programs.

Why TypeFocus - click to open

You can count on TypeFocus for these reasons.

  1. Focus on your personality type
    Your reports will be based upon the work of C. G. Jung, a Swiss psychoanalyst who published a book called Psychological Types that changed the way people saw themselves. When people understand their personality preferences, they often experience a surprised "ah-ha" feeling of enlightenment. Choices and events that used to be puzzling now make sense.

    Join the millions upon millions who have discovered what strengths they have based on their personality preferences.


  2. Scientifically validated assessment tools
    All the assessment tools in the different TypeFocus programs site have been scientifically validated and proven over time to be what they say they are: some of the best assessment tools that can be created. This means you can trust them.

    The TypeFocus Careers program measures three interactive concepts: personality, interests and values. The combination of these three instruments gives unparalleled power to providing you with great insights and accurate results.

    The TypeFocus assessment tools have been designed to be interactive and fun as well as reliable and valid.
    What do we mean by Scientifically Validated?

    Procedure

    In 2009, Dave Wood asked the TypeFocus clients (career centers in high schools, colleges, universities and community offices like OneStops) to help update the TypeFocus Type Indicator instrument. With their help he was able to distribute over 1000 Form M MBTI® instruments along with an equal number of the new TypeFocus® questionnaires. This gave him an excellent sample size and allowed him to state with scientific certainty that the TypeFocus® and Myers-Briggs® instruments are measuring the same concepts.

    Sample Size and Demographics

    Sample Size Age Students Ethnicity Sex
    720
    School age(14-17)15%
    College age(18-21)53%
    Adults(> 21)32%
    Students85%
    Non-students15%
    White64%
    Black7%
    Asian:5%
    Hispanic18%
    Other6%
    Male38%
    Female62%

    Reliability Results

    The reliability of the TypeFocus Type Indicator ranges from 0.88 - 0.89 for split-half correlations. These are very high reliability scores and indicate that the TypeFocus results will be consistent.

    To put those figures into context, the reliability of the MBTI® Form G (Table 8.1 in the MBTI® Manual) ranges from 0.82 to 0.86 for split-half correlations and this is considered excellent. The reliability of the MBTI® Form M (Table 8.1 in the MBTI® Manual) ranges from 0.89 to 0.92.

    Validity Results

    Validity means measuring what you think you are measuring; assessment tools need to demonstrate through empirical (i.e. scientific) studies that what they say they are measuring is in fact true. This is usually accomplished by correlating one result with another. For example, if a test purports to measure intelligence, then high scores on that test should correlate with higher marks in school.

    In our case, if the TypeFocus test is actually measuring personality type as measured by the MBTI® then the two tests should be highly correlated. And they are.

    The TypeFocus Type Indicator results correlate strongly with the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® results:

    • E-I continuous scores = .83
    • S-N continuous scores = .80
    • T-F continuous scores = .83
    • J-P continuous scores = .83


    These high correlations indicate that both instruments are measuring the same thing and therefore the research results based on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® can be applied to the TypeFocus results as well.

    Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is a registered trademark of Consulting Psychologists Press Inc.



  3. Useful application tools
    TypeFocus reports are heuristic - this means the reports "serve as an aid to learning, discovery, or problem-solving by experimental methods."

    Another way of saying this is that the TypeFocus reports will give you feedback in such a way that you can help yourself. The reports are designed to be used to improve your performance. That's why the TypeFocus motto is Success Through Self Awareness.

    As you become more aware of why you do what you do, you become more effective at what you do. It is a positive feedback loop and is the most effective way for anyone to learn - through experience.


  4. User friendly Program Design
    TypeFocus has really focused on making your online experience a happy one. Our approach to site navigation and support is second to none. You can focus on how to use your personality strengths to be successful - everything you do is saved so you can come back again and again to explore your results.

Contact Us - click to open

To All Our Valued Clients Please Note:

These email addresses are not hotlinked (to avoid spam) and need to be entered into your email program manually.

General Questions

If you have a general query about anything that TypeFocus does or anything about our different programs, let us know and we'll do our best to answer your questions.

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Service/Technical Support

Please describe the nature of the support you need in as much detail as you can and someone will get back to you right away.

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Educational Sales

Universities, colleges and high schools use the TypeFocus Careers Program through a cost-effective site license allowing unlimited student use and re-entry. Briefly describe your educational organization (high school? college? community career office? size?) and your contact information and someone will get back to you right away to discuss your needs and arrange a free trial.

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Corporate Sales

Some of the world's largest corporations use TypeFocus programs in their HR and Training & Development programs. Briefly describe what interests you and your contact information and someone will get back to you right away to discuss your needs and arrange a free trial.

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TypeFocus Certification Program

Becoming a TypeFocus Certified Practitioner gives you the confidence and credibility to take your career coaching/counseling business to the next level. Briefly describe what interests you about this program and someone will get back to you right away.

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Partnership/Advertising Opportunities

We welcome any company that has a passion for helping people become successful. Tell us the nature of how you see working together or advertising on our site and someone will get back to you right away.

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General:

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Victoria, BC V8N 3E2
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Telephone: 1-250-477-6179

TypeFocus Certification Program
The TypeFocus Certification Program is an online program providing a cost-effective way to upgrade your credentials. TypeFocus Practitioners enjoy the benefits of advanced training and ongoing support in personality type applications. Members can access advanced TypeFocus program features designed to support counselors and coaches in private practice.

The TypeFocus Certification Program consists of several components:
  • Guidebook with assignments
  • MBTI® Manual
  • Live webinars
  • Your own TypeFocus mentor
  • Two client debriefing sessions
  • Final interview with a TypeFocus Master Facilitator
  • Access to a moderated certification forum
The MBTI® Manual has to be borrowed or purchased.

The webinars, mentor to monitor assignments, assistance with debriefing, access to forum and final interview are only available to those participants who want to be certified as a TypeFocus Type Practitioner.

When a person becomes a Certified TypeFocus Practitioner, their contact information will be listed on our website to authenticate their standing. They will also be able to purchase any of our programs at a discount and offer their clients services through a website branded to their name.

The certification process itself will have no set time frame. To achieve certification, a person must:
  • complete all assignments,
  • debrief two clients using the TypeFocus program and
  • demonstrate their mastery of the program content via the final interview.
Mentor assistance, professional forums and live webinars are available as supports but are not requirements.

The fee for certification is $350 and some eligibility requirements exist; you can register at www.typefocus.com/certification

MBTI is a registered trademark of Consulting Psychologists Press Inc.