We are often asked how to set the perfect team based on Personality archetypes.

Although we would love to have that golden answer for you, it of course depends a lot on your business, culture, and leadership - and especially on what the individual teams need to deliver.

Maybe your People & Organization department would naturally require some Psychologist strengths for the difficult conversations, the development of leaders, and the understanding of people. Whereas, the Finance department may need some thorough Architect qualities to make sure that the accounting and reporting are precise.

Literature and studies have shown, that diversity is a good way to minimize blind spots in a team and to create high performance, but that does not necessarily mean that you should always aim for a high diversity within your team. It takes a lot of cooperative collaborativeness to become a high-performing diverse team. Instead, we would advise you to look in the team overview in your Zoios platform and see which archetypes you are lacking and then reflect on whether it is an issue or not in your team, also taking into consideration what kind of tasks your team deals with.

Diversity reflection exercise:

You can find our reflection exercise below, to reflect on what to do about a lacking archetype in your team.

It is important to note that if your team is “lacking Futurist” it does not mean you have 0 Futurist qualities in your team - only if every team member has 0 Futurist in their pie chart, but this rarely happens. If your team is eg. “Lacking Futurist” it means your team on average is lacking Futurist skills, but individuals might still have Futurist skills.

Reflection exercise.

Here are some reflection questions to ask yourself regarding lacking archetypes in your team. This way you can reflect on whether the lacking archetype is a quality you’re missing in your team to suceed in your everyday work.

Lacking Strategist.

Ask yourself: