Teambuilding: Some Assembly Required

The skills that each member brings to the team are more important than his or her personality type. Remember, you couldn’t build a rocket ship if you had one of each character on the project team, but none of them was a rocket scientist. If possible, though, you should at least seek one each of the first three types: D. R. Iver, Gloom N. Doom and Op T. Mystic. But if your team consists of all D. R. Ivers or all Op T. Mystics, that character’s negative qualities can end up dragging down the whole team. The same can happen if one person manages to dominate the team, even if it’s well-balanced. In these cases, the best tactic is for you as the team leader is to take that person to one side and ask him or her to back down.