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bullet1 PART 5: ANNEXES
bullet2 (4) Team Roles: Margerison & McCann

bullet3 CREATOR-INNOVATORS:

Role preference: Creating and experimenting with new ideas

These are people who have a number of ideas which may well contradict and upset the existing way of doing things. Such people can be very independent and wish to experiment and pursue their ideas regardless of the present systems and methods. They therefore need to be treated in such a way that they can pursue their ideas without disrupting the present way of working, until their new approaches have been proven. Many organizations set up research and development units (often separated from the production units) to allow people who have ideas the chance to see if they can bring them to fruition. On every team it is important to have people who are ideas orientated and to give them the opportunity to talk through their views, even though at the time they may seem to be disturbing the existing of way of operating.