IPA Core – Focus
a team roles and style analysis
IPA Core Focus analysis is a further development of IPA Nordic’s original ideas and models around the concept of Role and Style. The development of this new version has been carried out during the period 2021 and 2022, as part of IPA Nordic’s efforts to evolve and adapt our analyses to the changes that are happening in and around us.
In relation to the traditions surrounding the use of person-oriented analyses in the workplace, we at IPA Nordic take our cue from the part of psychology known as Integrative Psychology. Integrative Psychology works with a perspective and synthesis of personality psychology in a field model that captures the angles and possibilities we have to create theories and empirical evidence around personality. This is the prerequisite for us to be able to operationalize the phenomenon of personality through analysis and measurement.
In IPA Nordic, we have developed a “classical” personality model and associated measurement instrument with the IPA Analysis, which registers the part of personality that figuratively appears as the “tip of the iceberg”. These analyses are based on a systematic recording of our behaviour and the patterns in this behaviour that can be conceptualised as personality traits. This behaviourist tradition is well founded and well documented with an almost scientific precision.
Role
The Coordinator
Function
To manage, coordinate and evaluate
Systematises, creates order and overview, maintains, calculates, complies with rules and standards
Role
The Organizer
Function
To organize, execute and complete
Ensures effective governance and direction, assesses objectives and resources, prioritises, optimises and allocates roles and tasks
Role
The Motivator
Function
To motivate, facilitate and create meaning
Builds teams, facilitates collaboration and relationships, handles conflict, negotiates compromises and brings the team together
Role
Change Maker
Function
To put into perspective, change and adapt
Gathers input and ideas, summarises, creates context in relation to the company’s challenges and strategic objectives
Style
The Specialist
Gathers knowledge, analyses, finds errors, corrects
Professional and technical guarantor that things are in order, develops specific knowledge, documents, objective, patient and tenacious
Style
The Driver
Drives, completes, finishes and scores
Delivers results, performs, cuts through, energetic firebrand with high and visible activity level, impatient and restless
Style
The Mentor
Supports, advises, encourages and cuddles together
Conversation partner, catalyst, takes personal responsibility for relationships in the team, open, positive and inclusive
Style
The Idea Creator
Creating ideas, experimenting, exploring possibilities
Enthusiastic exponent of the creative and the changing, original, curious and challenging, free of habits and traditions
In-depth information about IPA Core – Focus
Role – The functional viewpoint
The four basic personal styles (IPA Team roles)
When we look at the concept of style from a personal point of view, and thus describe and explain the behavior that characterizes a given person’s style, there are four basic driving forces that form the basis of the more concrete Style that we later define and operationalize in IPA Team Roles.
Based on the determination of these four basic motives, we have more concretely defined four personal styles, which when set up in a model look like this:
Style – Personal preferences
The four basic personal styles (IPA Team roles)
When we look at the concept of style from a personal point of view and thus describe and explain the behaviour that characterizes a given person’s style, there are four basic driving forces that form the basis of the more concrete style that we later define and operationalize. We can clarify this in IPA Team Roles.