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A shaper and plant.

Shaper

• Highly motivated with a lot of nervous energy and a great need for achievement.
• Like to challenge lead and push others to action, can be headstrong and emotional in response to disappointment or frustration.
• Generally make good managers because they generate action and thrive on pressure.

Plant

• Innovators and inventors – can be highly creative.
• Often enjoy working on their own away from other members of the team.
• Tend to be introvert and react strongly to criticism and praise.
• Great for generating new proposals and to solve complex problems.

For this reason, and explaining successes of the past, I need to team up with the following, a:

• Co-ordinator
• Monitor/ Evaluator
• Implementer
• Team worker
• Completer-Finisher
• Specialist

As we often take on two or three roles this explains how a team of three or a band of four may be enough. They're called:

• An accountant
• Sales