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Sensation is when people directly sense or experience things, for example by seeing, feeling or smelling and immediately experience some tangible factors. The first two functions, sensation and intuition relate to how people gather and interpret information.

Jung introduced four psychological functions sensation, intuition, feeling and thinking. Jung’s type theory is helpful in the way that it explains how people function by demonstrating how people think, feel and experience the world in different ways. The theory postulates that human behaviour is based on the way people uses their mind in one of two ways when gathering and processing information. Jung introduced a theory about psychological type. Some tools have been established with the purpose to help with the identification process, and among them is the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® instrument or as often referred to as the MBTI® instrument. There is no clear way of doing it, and there are no definite categories for each personality since they vary between each person even though they might have the same background, interest etc.

However, identifying people’s personality can be more difficult and complex. Identifying people’s knowledge and competences is quite simple and can be done through interviews, tests and performance auditions for example. It is a very complicated and difficult job to find the perfect people for each project.

īut how can the project manager identify what kind of personality the people have in order to allocate them in the right way? And what kind of people should be combined in a team? The manager’s job is than to connect these diverse people and direct them to work towards shared purpose.

In order to accomplish that, the manager needs to observe the project as a collection of people all with different background, competences, interest and last but not least, with different personalities. Today, people and people’s behaviour is considered one of the fundamental facet when it comes to managing projects.It is essential to project managers to be able to “assigning the “right” people to “right” tasks” and manage the resources in an efficient way. In recent years, an increasing interest in people and their behaviour has slowly led to essential change in how projects are managed.