The CVI Guy

There are six contributor types in the Core Values System. Do you know what your contributor types are?

While each Contributor Type has positive strategies that lead to success, each also has its blind spots and weaknesses. It is this combination of high benefit and significant challenge that each of us brings to our work team and to our families and friends.

Shared Values

Builders and bankers both value “being right.”  These people tend to think that they are never wrong.  Builders believe they are never wrong because they are acting from the gut, and who can challenge the validity of a gut instinct?  Bankers believe they are never wrong because they have the data to back up their actions and conclusions. They will be happy to prove you wrong anytime you choose to disagree with them.

Contributions to Team

Practical contributors are tough people to get around.  Their belief that they are always right makes them self-assured and motivated to achieve suc­cessful results and to excel with legal and moral appropriateness.  They tend to set a course, hold to it, and do whatever is required to make certain they are able to do so.

When a practical contributor completes a task, it has usually been com­pleted on time, under budget, and with excellent attention to quality.  Prac­tical contributors build efficient, practical, durable, and financially solvent operations.  They are not willing to do less.

Impositions to Team

Practical contributors are so self-assured and so unwilling to be wrong that they may overpower others around them.  These people are more likely to find a way to “run” the business from second and third-level positions than any other value set.  Practical contributors can be so certain they are right, that they don’t bother to gain consensus for their actions or check to see whether anyone else is enjoying the business process.

There are six contributor types in the Core Values System. Do you know what your contributor types are?

While each Contributor Type has positive strategies that lead to success, each also has its blind spots and weaknesses. It is this combination of high benefit and significant challenge that each of us brings to our work team and to our families and friends.

Shared Values

Merchants and innovators both value being needed, either for their solutions and technologies or for their humanity, creativity, and love.  This need to be appreciated drives them to achieve long-term relationships and to develop products and sys­tems that ensure the longevity of the relationships that are formed.

Contributions to Team

The power of a creative contributor is derived from their inexhaustible well of good ideas and new strategic innovations.  This creates a deep sense of optimism.  If the merchant’s dream is not being realized, the innovator can kick in and come up with the appropriate solutions.

Impositions to Team

Unrestrained creative people can be a real challenge to their teams.  The merchant is constantly thinking of new projects and new adventures, and avoiding non-creative, boring work. There is always a brighter future or a glorious past accomplishment that will distract others from the need for ac­countability today.