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Your MTR-i Team Role

The Myers-Briggs Personality Indicator can also be used to identify your Management Team Roles Indicator (MBT-i). The MBT-i assesses a person's impact on the outer world of people and things or on the inner world of ideas and information.

When your team role does not match your preferred role, you will not enjoy your work. Matching your role to your preference will create a less stressful situation.

These team roles, as identified by Steve Myers at 16types.com, can change depending on the situation and can be defined as stated below:

Team Role Description Closest
Type
Sculptor Sculpts things into completion. Makes sure things get done and get done now! ESTP
ESFP
Curator Brings clarity to the world of ideas and information. Helps provide understanding and a better knowledge. ISFJ
ISTJ
Coach Creates agreement and harmony in the world. Builds rapport with people. ESFJ
ENFJ
Crusader Campaign for thoughts, ideas, and beliefs. Makes sure that urgency and priority is understood. ISFP
INFP
Innovator Uses imagination to create new ideas and gives new perspectives. The creative one with alternative ideas. INFJ
INTJ
Explorer Promotes looking at new and better ways of doing things. Always trying to improve and look for possibilities. ENFP
ENTP
Conductor Brings organization and logical structure. Good and planning and project management. ESTJ
ENTJ
Scientist Provides explanations of how things work. Likes detail and knowing why things happen. ISTP
INTP

Each team member contributes a different perspective trying to achieve a different effect. One member may ask for clarity, another may want immediate resolution, while another wants an explanation. These interactions are based on each person's team role. Alignment between your preferred team role and your employer's and team's expectations is important. Being able to recognize other members' team roles is also important for effective teamwork.

Research (Myers, Steve, MTR-i: a new arena for team roles, Training Journal, January 2002) has indicated that only one in four people has a very good match between his or her actual team role and his or her preferred team role. On the other end, one in four people has a large stretch between the preference and the actual team role. The farther the stretch between the preference and the team role, the more stress is created on the job. Employees become unmotivated and unhappy, and productivity declines.

Degree of Stretch

(between Myer's-Briggs personality type and MTR-i team role)
MBTI
preference
Coach Crusader Explorer Innovator Sculptor Curator Conductor Scientist
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