Hello Basil

• How was your day?

Let's start with • What are your expectations?
check-ins • Your favourite emoji and why?
 Things to keep in mind
• Make sure you use this space for learning about
yourself and not to judge others.
• Keep an open mind.
• Every team role is equally important for a team.
 • RI- Resource Investigator
• PL- Plant
• CO- Co-Ordinator
• SH- Shaper
Personality • ME- Monitor/Evaluator
types • TW- Team Worker
• IM- Implementor
• CF- Complete Finisher
 Strengths
• Extrovert, enthusiastic, curious and
uninhibited about asking questions.
• Develops contacts, communicates and
negotiates on behalf of the team.
Resource • Gets along with people quickly and
Investigator easily. Communicates voluminously
with lots of body movement and
gestures.
• Self-starter, active under pressure and
responds to challenges and
challenging situations.
 Weaknesses
• Liable to lose interest, restless and
Resource easily bored, needs to be pushed and
Investigator stimulated.
• Tends to follow own fancies at the cost
of others.
 Strengths
• Concentrates on fundamental and
major issues.
• Extremely intelligent, provides
Plant original ideas leading to major
developments.
• Tackles complex problems.
• Excellent at initial stages of
a project or where a project is failing.
 Weaknesses
• Appears to be absorbed in thought and
not listening to others.
• Little concern for
interpersonal connections. Gives offence
easily.
Plant • Prone to generalizations, careless with
details and forgetful.
• Not a very good manager as he is selective
about who to work with.
• Devote creative capacity along
lines of personal
interest rather than teams needs.
 Strengths
• Clarifies goals, organizes and is visibly
in control at all times.
• Delegates easily and encourages.
Co-Ordinator • Seeks views, summarizes discussions
and is constantly driven by goals.
• Calm, controlled and confident,
never loses grip on situations.
Tackles problems and setbacks calmly.
 Weaknesses
• Can be lazy and over-dominant.
Co-Ordinator • Not the most creative member in the
team.
 Strengths
• Presses for decisions and actions,
challenges status quo and inertia.
Shaper • Hardworking, single-minded,
leads from the front and its
determined to win and achieve results.
• Outgoing and dynamic.
 Weaknesses
• Blunt, insensitive, argumentative and
competitive.
Shaper • Assumes more authority than
the status in the group warrants.
• Over reacts to disappointments.
• Prone to irritation and impatience.
 Strengths
• Analyses problems, evaluates ideas
and suggestions.
• Makes considered and shrewd
Monitor decisions.
• Detached and extremely objective,
Evaluator  spot flaws in illogical or impractical
ideas. 
• Judgmental, weighting pros and cons
with no hurry.
 Weaknesses
• Can deflate and demoralize others by
Monitor being critical.
• Lacks the drive and charisma to
Evaluator inspire others and slows things down.
• Low achievement orientation.
 Strengths
• Listens attentively, rarely criticizes,
responds positively and builds on
others ideas.
• Fosters team spirit by  putting team
Team Worker goals above own need.
• Extremely flexible and works well with
a wide variety of people.
• Seeks compromise and
expresses willingness to go along with
the majority.
 Weaknesses
• Indecisive at moments of crisis and
crunch situations.
Team worker • Dislikes friction,
hence avoids issues and conflicts.
• Over dependent and
over influenced by the team.
 Strengths
• Conservative and dutiful, takes
responsibility for implementation.
• Very systematic, methodical and
Implementer protects systems and procedures.
• Practical, hardworking and self-
discipline, having a common-
sense approach to issues and
problems.
 Weaknesses
• Unadventurous, conservative and slow
to respond to new ideas.
Implementer • Lacks flexibility, flounders in fast
moving situaions.
 Strengths
• Perfectionist, looks for mistakes to
improve the finished products.
• Personally checks all details,
Complete compulsively looking for deadlines and
Finisher schedules.
• Impatient and
intolerant towards casualness
• Seeks clarification and points
out omissions.
 Weaknesses

Complete • A tendency to worry too much about

small things.
Finisher • Can lose sight of the team objective.
• Reluctant to delegate.
We hate it too • How was the meeting?
but, it's time to • Did you learn something new about yourself?
say goodbye...