Thank you so much for your blog. Reading it, I realised that I have done exactly as you advise. My preferred type is ENFP and am a Finance professional with a passion for Accounting! Highest level of education is Executive MBA and working on senior management level in a big international company. Next to that my professional, more rational role, I have developed myself as ICF certified coach and trainer working with NLP and I am MBTI Step II certified practitioner. Fortunately I am also able to work as coach and trainer in the same international company!
As long as I can remember my mission is to getAccounting@theTablein orgaisations. However having the ENFP personality, it felt like this could not work, as I am too different than my Accounting colleagues. It has taken several years and a lot of coaching to be able to embrace the fact that bringingAccounting@theTableis my mission. Being an ENFP and having the knowledge and experience in Accounting is actually an enormous advantage. I am approaching the Accounting profession from a different perspective than other Accounting professionals. Now I have written a book about the Accounting Architecture Model, which I develop myself, taking it more from a people point of view. Analysing the mix of Accounting co-workers from a MBTI perspective is really exciting and I am really working a lot with this now. Next step for me is on the way, offering Accounting trainings from the different perspective, mixing it with my ENFP strengths, like coaching and NLP techniques.
Yes, NF's can excel in Business as we combine our strengths and talents with the business and this makes us unique :-)!!!
Marinda van Harskamp (not verified)says...
Hej Mikayla,
Thank you so much for your blog. Reading it, I realised that I have done exactly as you advise. My preferred type is ENFP and am a Finance professional with a passion for Accounting! Highest level of education is Executive MBA and working on senior management level in a big international company. Next to that my professional, more rational role, I have developed myself as ICF certified coach and trainer working with NLP and I am MBTI Step II certified practitioner. Fortunately I am also able to work as coach and trainer in the same international company!
As long as I can remember my mission is to getAccounting@theTablein orgaisations. However having the ENFP personality, it felt like this could not work, as I am too different than my Accounting colleagues. It has taken several years and a lot of coaching to be able to embrace the fact that bringingAccounting@theTableis my mission. Being an ENFP and having the knowledge and experience in Accounting is actually an enormous advantage. I am approaching the Accounting profession from a different perspective than other Accounting professionals. Now I have written a book about the Accounting Architecture Model, which I develop myself, taking it more from a people point of view. Analysing the mix of Accounting co-workers from a MBTI perspective is really exciting and I am really working a lot with this now. Next step for me is on the way, offering Accounting trainings from the different perspective, mixing it with my ENFP strengths, like coaching and NLP techniques.
Yes, NF's can excel in Business as we combine our strengths and talents with the business and this makes us unique :-)!!!