11 Jul 25

Rev Gav

Tyte Team Roles

The 26 (currently) Tyte Team Roles

I have always been fascinated with questionnaires that help define personal and team roles, for example Myers Briggs, Enneagram, Belbin, Strengthsfinder, and APEST, and I would like to develop a web app — an online tool — that allows individuals to confirm their own God-given role in the body of Christ, and how they fit within the wider body — their local church or organisation.

To this end, I have been developing the underlying technology to create a web application that will enable individuals (by way of a profile) to answer questions to help them define their roles, then match with other profiles (in teams) to see how they work with others. This will help highlight strengths and weaknesses within church or organisational leadership teams.

For want of a better title, I call these the Tyte Team Roles and (a work in progress) they are as follows:

  1. Administrator – keeps an orderly account of systems and procedures
  2. Artist – uses their creative skills to make beautiful things
  3. Builder – uses their hands to shape physical objects and spaces
  4. Carer – helps others with their physical wellbeing
  5. Companion – journeys alongside others bringing them comfort and friendship
  6. Connector – connects people to people or projects
  7. Creator – comes up with new material or ways of doing things
  8. Designer – uses their creative skills to make useful things
  9. Developer – puts plans into action
  10. Encourager – helps others with their emotional, mental, and/or spiritual wellbeing
  11. Feeder – ensures people are physically nourished
  12. Financer – gives money to support people and projects
  13. Fixer – sees something that needs doing and does it
  14. Grounder – sees the potential pitfalls and downsides to things and holds others to account
  15. Helper – likes to be asked to do things and directed in how to do them
  16. Leader – holds the vision and helps others stick to the plan
  17. Listener – takes into consideration the opinions of others
  18. Maintainer – works hard to ensure things continue to run smoothly
  19. Marketer – tells others about what is happening and when
  20. Perfecter – puts the final touches or flourishes to things
  21. Pioneer – likes to go places no-one has been before and takes others with them
  22. Planner – coordinates the timing and resources of future events or occasions
  23. Scooper – ensures no-one is left behind
  24. Speaker – enjoys public verbal communication
  25. Supporter – provides a prayerful presence for others
  26. Teacher – communicates knowledge and skills to enable others to flourish
  27. Visionary – sees how things could be arranged in the future
  28. Welcomer – introduces people to each other or to places

The idea behind the web app is that, through the use of an extensive (and easy to use) questionnaire, each individual profile will have a weighting in those 26 roles. e.g. 100% Scooper, 98% Fixer, 68% Builder, and so on.

As profiles can be combined into teams, I can use an algorithm to highlight areas of commonality between individuals and areas where skills or gifting are lacking, thus providing helpful insight into understanding church or team members and how they can work effectively in mission and ministry.

The team roles are based on a mixture of pastoral observation (over twenty years of church leadership experience) and church roles and gifts that are expressed in the biblical narrative. We would hope to emerge with a helpful working tool that can be used by individuals, the church, and Christian organisations.

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C.S.I. Jul 11 15:53pm

This looks like an interesting and potentially very useful project! Thanks for sharing!

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