top of page
ENFJ 
ENFJ 

The Warm & Caring Leader

  • Enthusiastic, affectionate and warm

  • Eager to please

  • Friendly and outgoing

  • Strive for harmony

  • Have strong values and beliefs

  • Likes to express their feelings

  • Takes good care of others feelings , may give up their needs to recapture harmony

  • Creative and imaginative

  • Love theoretical concepts

  • Enjoy learning and entertaining others

  • Desire to understand the meaning of life

  • Want closure , organisation and productivity in life

  • Enjoy being in charge and are often inspiring leaders

  • Like to have a plan of action

  • Hard – working, takes commitments seriously

  • Values their appearance , wants to balance their individual expression and strong need to fit in

  • Tolerant – they listen to others opinions even if they contradict their own.

  • Reliable – they are very committed to a person or cause they believe in.

  • Charismatic – they are charming and popular.

  • Altruistic – they are warm and selfless people, always eager to help others.

  • Natural leaders – they often end up in leadership roles if others want them to.

  • Overly idealistic – they may idolise people or believe their ideals to be completely true, ignoring other's opinions.

  • Too selfless – they feel other's problems as their own and strive hard to meet their expectations, to the point of breaking down.

  • Too sensitive – they sometimes try to fix things they can’t fix , and often worry if they are doing enough.

  • Low self – esteem – if they fail to help others or meet a goal, they will lose self-confidence.

  • Struggle to make tough decisions – they are scared to make decisions, fearing that they may make mistakes.

At their best

  • Loving, genuine and empathic people with great charm and incredible warmth

  • Their natural compassion and globalistic view of the world makes them inspiring and caring leaders

  • Have enormous and productive creative energy and commitment to complete the things they believe in

ENFJ as Children and Students

  • Enthusiastic and energetic

  • Excited to play with other children or interact with adults, if they feel safe and supported by a nearby parent

  • Love to talk and make others laugh

  • Have high need for social interaction and are easily saddened and bored when there’s no one to play with

  • Highly imaginative children with a love of fantasy and curiosity about new and different ideas

  • Like to draw, color and paint and choose bright , bold colors 

  • Most artwork is filled with images of their personal lives showing their relationships and their personal emotions 

  • Highly empathetic , will do their best to comfort a upset person

  • Gentle with children younger or smaller than themselves

  • Often cooperate with whatever their friends are doing

  • Love to snuggle with and hug their parents

  • Happiest when they have their parents constant reapproval and praise

  • Be most secure when they have routines they can count on

  • Punctual , hate to be late

  • Bright and enthuasiatic learners

  • Likes school , as it has many of their favourite things : lots of friends and interactions, opportunities to learn , a clear system of rewards for achievement, and praise for following the rules

  • Likes to be prepared all the time

  • Likes helping the teacher and making friends

  • Enjoy group activities , may join a lot of clubs

  • Likes participating in team sports

  • Likes to express their creativity and originality through writing, theater, music and other performance arts

  • Philosophical and spiritual, may be mature than children their age

  • Eager to share their personal opinions and viewpoints

  • Fascinated with alternative lifestyles and interested in people of other cultures or religions

  • Deeply values their appearance to the world outside  as they approach adolescence

istockphoto-1075554520-1024x1024_edited.

  • Continue to do well academically

  • Like to study issues in more depth , and use their imagination to interpret materials

  • Needs encouragement to be different from others to investigate their own interests

  • Enjoy the humanities, litereature, social studies and learning new languages

  • Remain involved in a variety of group activities 

  • Have very active social lives

  • May begin to spend more time inside their own heads , and seek more time alone

  • Love to daydream, like imagining exciting scenarios they would never carry out in real life

  • Begin to pull away from their families to find their own identity

  • Want to find a sense of internal balance between the outside world and becoming their own person

  • Enjoy journaling to express their thoughts and feelings

​

  • Their self-esteem comes from having their values and feelings validated and supported ; they can't live without love and support

  • The more oppourtunities they get to talk about and see the implications of their feelings and values, the more they will be able to fine tune them and learn to be more flexible and independent.

  • Need privacy , permission and encouragement to dream and express their creativity in their own way

  • ENFJs who feel free to express themselves without fear of rejection , embarrassment, or criticism grow up confident, accepting of others and responsible for themselves.

  • Encourage them to listen to their own hearts and trust themselves , rather than rely on the opinions of others

  • When encouraged to trust themselves and their values, they become healthy , strong, open-minded adults.

© The Quirky Classroom

  • Facebook Social Icon
  • Twitter Social Icon
  • Instagram Social Icon
bottom of page