Comparing types
ESTJ
vs ESTJ
Efficient organizer
INFP
Thoughtful idealist
Strengths
ESTJ wants
- Providing clear plans, organization, and structure
- Avoiding unnecessary change by clearly explaining what’s working well and what could be improved
INFP gives
- Inspiring others through a belief in their potential
- Working hard to achieve harmony and cooperation between friends and colleagues
Stretches
ESTJ wants
- Frustration with people who spend a lot of time exploring possibilities
- An impatient or impersonal manner toward others
INFP gives
- Focusing on people issues at the expense of commercial goals
- A tendency to delay important decisions while searching for the perfect answer
Likes
ESTJ wants
- Taking charge to bring order to the world around them
- Being decisive and goal-oriented
- Challenging and critiquing systems to test their logic
INFP gives
- Living with conviction according to their values
- Trying to make the world a better place for others
- Engaging emotionally with the world around them
Working together
ESTJ wants
- Organized, efficient processes
- Accuracy and facts
- Opportunities to find and solve problems in the world around them
INFP gives
- Tolerance and support
- Commitment to ethical behavior and ideals
- Encouragement to help others develop and achieve their goals