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

Merchants and bankers share the concern for good community. They each want the environment at work and within their social group to be a good and beneficial environment.

Contributions to Team

The worth of community contributors is best seen in situations that re­quire highly technical or profuse knowledge that needs to be disseminated to others, or situations in which the demand for risk is high and the need for detail and follow-through is extreme.

The community contrib­utor’s capacity to keep many balls in the air and to develop unmatched staying power, as­sures these persons of staying at play longer than others, being able to go after more opportunities and have something to show for it in the end.  When long-term relationships and long-term results are the desired outcome, a leader who is a community contributor will provide maximum assurance of a positive outcome.

Impositions to Team

The opposing values of love and knowledge make community contributors prone to a little social inconsistency.  When they shift into their merchant role, they are charming, visionary, and full of energy.  They tend to be a surprise to the people around them, because in business their banker values often cause them to hide their merchant characteristics for fear of being perceived as being silly or unprofessional.

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

While builders and merchants are intuitive in their thinking, innovators and bankers are cognitive in their thinking. All innovator/banker thinking is guided by reason. Innovators and bankers both value making decisions based upon assessment and analysis.  They make decisions based upon what they think or know versus what they feel.

Contributions to Team

Cognitive contributors are rationally based, working from fact, provable systems, and logical flow.  A person with this Core Values Nature can rapidly assess a situation and come up with multiple solutions or systems to support the stated objectives.  Once conceived, the ideas are analyzed, organized, proven on paper, and perfected in documentation.

Impositions to Team

Cognitive contributors have a difficult time making decisions because of their cognitive thought process and their need to thoroughly analyze and as­sess situations.  Although the banker’s aversion to risk causes them to quickly make a decision in the negative, to say “no” without thought is not making a decision.