Building on Strengths

The exercise is designed for users of the MTR-i team role questionnaire. The instructions below assume you have a copy of the manual and materials.

• To identify the probably strengths of the team
• To identify any ways in which those strengths can be built on

• Complete the MTR-i and relevant exercises to give delegates a good understanding of the MTR-i team roles
• Draw a flipchart table, with team roles in the rows and team member names in the columns, plus an extra column called "total"
• Ask team members to write up their MTR-i scores in their own columns
• Delegate different team members to add up the total scores (along each row) for each team role
• Write up the primary 2 or 3 team roles (ie the ones with the highest total scores) on the flip chart
• Split the team members into pairs or threes, and ask them to brainstorm ideas on:
  - what are the likely strengths of having a team that focuses primarily on these team roles
  - how can those strengths be even more exploited
• After 10 or 15 minutes, get them to feedback their conclusions to the group
• Facilitate a discussion to agree actions on how to build on team strengths