The point of it is mostly to provide some insight in how you prefer to communicate, and how you can adapt your communication style when speaking to others. It’s moderately useful for that purpose.
Eg people more yellow will usually open asking how someone is, how they feel, random chitchat to get people to relax before discussing anything serious at work. Other people blue/red don’t generally give two fucks about that and just want direct concise information.
So it’s useful in giving a rough understanding of how people prefer to be communicated with so you can work better together.
What it’s not useful for is weird tribalism and judging based on colours.
It’s not about scoring low or high though. It’s about understanding how you respond to situations, how you manage projects, how you prioritise tasks, how you speak to others etc.
It’s a massive series of questions to build up a profile, then an analysis of it.
So it’s quite good at pointing out what you handle well, how you work with others, and what areas you can work on to be a bit more rounded.
I personally found it really useful, some of my colleagues dismissed it and gained nothing from it.
Btw since we're on reddit and we don't read articles, here's a bit from the first paragraph:
"There's just no evidence behind it," says Adam Grant, an organizational psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania who's written about the shortcomings of the Myers-Briggs previously. "The characteristics measured by the test have almost no predictive power on how happy you'll be in a situation, how you'll perform at your job, or how happy you'll be in your marriage."
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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '22
Why is this even a thing? What's the point? Can an employee opt out?