The Management Team Role Indicator approach

• Myers developed the MTR-I approach in 1990 and based it on Jung's theory of personality.
• The MTR-I approach investigates the roles played by each team member
• The MTR-I instrument identifies eight roles within a team, which describes what each person does at a particular time
• Coach

  • Create harmony and agreement in the team
  • Build relationships, create positive atmosphere
  • Look after welfare of team
• Conductor

  • Good at organising
  • good at planning
  • work in structured environment
• Crusader

  • Importance to ideas, thoughts and beliefs
  • Value driven, focus attention on team members issues
• Curator

  • Good at gathering information
  • Bring clarity to ideas and info
  • good at creating a clear picture of situation
• Explorer

  • Find new ways of doing things
  • Good at uncovering new opportunities by looking beyond the obvious
• Innovator

  • Imaginative and creative
• Scientist

  • Good at supplying explanations of happenings
  • Collect and analyse information
• Sculptor

  • Get things done quickly
  • Action orientated and goal driven
  • Motivate group members to start working