Margerison-McCann Team Management Systems Profiles

• In 1984 doctors Margerison and McCann research the question, 'Why do some teams perform while other teams fail?'
• They noted that it was easy to include team members with knowledge and experience
• According to this theory, people do better at things they enjoy doing.
• A team will be successful if one can create a team where preferences of team members have the right skills, and complement and balance one another
• Reported Advisor

  • Enjoys giving and gathering information
  • Supportive, tolerant and knowledgeable
• Creator-Innovator

  • Likes new ideas and ways of approaching taks
  • Imaginative and creative
• Explorer-Promoter

  • Enjoys exploring new opportunities
  • Persuasive and outgoing
• Assessor-Developer

  • Works with alternative ideas
  • Analytical and objective
• Thruster-Organiser

  • Push forward to get results
  • Results-orientated
• Concluder-Producer

  • Works systematically
  • Practical, efficient, likes to plan
• Controller-Inspector

  • Detail-orientated and meticulous
  • Does not like interacting with people
• Upholder-Maintainer

  • Uphold standards and values
  • Loyal
  • Strong sense of right and wrong
• Linker

  • Coordinating and intergrating the work of others