Role type | Description | Characteristics |
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Implementer | Likes to get on with the team's task(s) and sort out practical details | Dutiful, practical and quite cautious; predictable and sometimes inflexible |
Coordinator | Encourages team members to make their point but keeps the team going in the right direction | Calm, self-confident and supportive; does not get involved in matters of detail |
Shaper | Provides drive and energy to the team's work, but can try to influence it with their own views | Outgoing, dynamic, challenging; impatient and sometimes provocative |
Plant | Offers lots of imaginative ideas or specialist knowledge to the task | Creative thinker, often unorthodox; likes to work alone and not very practical |
Resource investigator | Provides lots of information and has lots of useful contacts | Highly communicative, enthusiastic and curious; easily bored |
Monitor/Evaluator | Likes to observe and measure how well the team are doing | Prudent, hard-headed and a good judge; at times rather unemotional |
Teamworker | Does things to keep up team spirit or morale | Socially orientated, sensitive and responsive; sometimes indecisive |
Completer/Finisher | Makes sure that all tasks are finished off completely | Painstaking, orderly, conscientious; can be anxious and find it difficult to ‘let go’ |