Dear LO'ers,
I was inspired by the message of Koebelin, De Lange, and Belbin
categories, and I have tried to show below how their categories can be
compressed in the DISC/DESA system originated by the industrial
psychologist, William Marston. Marston was a contemporary of Myers and
Briggs. I have put the general system of Marston into my Negotiator Pro
software (see last column, NPro).
I am curious if folks think that compressing the 8 categories into 4 loses
something in the translation?
I think we all agree that teams are a multi-individual group which shows
group consistancy over a longer period in a dynamic environment. This
broad view of humans and their different proclivities is also shown the
Howard Gardner's vision of multiple intelligences (MI). The net effect of
having a well-rounded team is that they are more efficient if they can
value their internal diversity.
BELBIN TEAM DE LANGE ESSENTIALITIES QUALITIES NEGOTIATOR PRO
Shaper: "becoming-being" (liveness) NPro-Extrovert
Team worker "open-paradigm" (openness) NPro-Amiable
Plant "connect-beget" (fruitfulness) NPro-Amiable
Monitor/evaluator "quantity-limit" (spareness) NPro-Analytic
Resource investigator "associativity-monadicity" (wholeness) NPro-Analytic
Company worker "identity-categoricity" (sureness) NPro-Pragmatic
Completer/finisher "quality-variety" (otherness) NPro-Pragmatic
Chairman NPro-Extrovert
Dan Burnstein,
617-738-9300
www.negotiatorpro.com
[Host's Note: I hope Dan's well-formatted table isn't mangled by your
email gateways. ...Rick]
--Dan Burnstein <npro1@ziplink.net>
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