The MTR-i is a powerful team diagnostic and development tool that helps team members focus on the most productive ways to improve team effectiveness and from a personal perspective develop their individual team and management skills. The MTR-i profile and report provides a unique insight into an individual's team strengths and his or her influence on team dynamics whilst highlighting areas where development could be beneficial. This instrument, introduced in 2000, has high value as a team-building tool, enabling participants to:

• Clarify the team roles each person is undertaking within the team
• Recognise and understand the implications of the roles they are undertaking, both for themselves and the team
• Recognise potentially harmful team dynamics
• Plan how to build on potential team strengths and mitigate against potential team weaknesses
• Reduce personal stress levels, or increase personal development, through managing where and how you are stretched (“stretch” is the difference between your personality preferences and the team role you undertake)
• Implement a process that enables the team to make high-quality decisions consistently

Use of the tool
The MTR-i is a stand-alone psychometric instrument. It measures what a person is doing in the team, how they are behaving at this time – not what they prefer to do or used to do.

Because it is based on the Jung personality model, it can be used alongside MBTI or used with teams with no mention of MBTI preferences.

It can also be used when coaching an individual and is a good tool for improving cross-team relationships. It has good co-relation and links to Emotional Intelligence and the Enigram tool and can be used in conjunction with the Tuckman Model.

Underlying concepts are that:

• People perform different roles in different teams they are involved with
• Anyone can take on any role at any time
• Your role changes when you move teams
• Your role may change when someone joins or leaves the existing team

The tool does not measure how well a person does their role or even if they like/prefer that role – it provides a non-judgemental way of looking at how teams and individuals are functioning and provides valuable information for planning and decision making purposes.

The MTR-i is recommended as a one-day workshop for teams.

To find out how Nexus Partners and the use of the can benefit your organisation, please click here to contact us, or phone 0800 4 LEADERS (0800 453 233).