Which Simpsons Character Are You?

This week's post is compliments of Peter Carter at Today's Trucking. Our VP of Product Development, Jane Jazrawy, has contributed a couple of guest columns to Today's Trucking over the last little while, and she's working on another one now. As part of the back-and-forth between writers and editors, Peter forwarded a copy of a PowerPoint presentation which helps you figure out which Simpsons character you're most like.

You can get a copy of the presentation as a PDF here.

The presentation is basically a Myers-Briggs type assessment applied to Simpsons characters. For any of you not familiar with it, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is a personality assessment tool that uses a series of characteristic pairs to identify different communication and behavioural preferences. For example, Introvert vs. Extravert is one pair. I'm not doing it justice with this description, but you can find out lots more by Googling "Myers-Briggs".

I've done MBTI assessments before, and I'm a big fan. It's a great tool for identifying communication preferences within a team and helping to understand how people react to different situations. 

What I really like about this presentation is that it adds a bit of fun to the exercise as well. These HR things can sometimes be a bit dry and it can be tough to get people to complete them. However, by adding the Simpsons element, the whole thing becomes much more interesting on a personal level, and much more of a conversation piece among participants as well.

If any of you are planning driver meetings over the next few months, this might a be cool exercise to go through as part of the meeting.

By the way, it turns out that the Simpsons character I'm most like is Lisa. 

I have a feeling I'm going to be mocked for this.