Personality Characteristics: Stable, dominant, extrovert.

RESOURCE INVESTIGATORS are probably the most immediately likeable members of the team. They are relaxed, sociable and gregarious, with an interest that is easily aroused. They are good at communicating with people both inside and outside the company. They are natural negotiators and are adept at exploring new opportunities and developing contacts. Their responses tend to be positive and enthusiastic, though they are prone to put things down as quickly as they pick them up.

The RESOURCE INVESTIGATORS are the team members who go out of the group and bring ideas, information and developments back to it. They have an ability to think on their feet and to probe others for information. They make friends easily because of their own outgoing and very amiable nature. They are rarely in their offices, and when they are they are probably on the telephone. They are the teams' salesmen, diplomats and liaison-officers; always exploring new possibilities in the wider world outside. Their ability to stimulate ideas and encourage innovation by this activity would lead most people to mistake them for ideas people, but they do not have the radical originality that distinguishes the PLANT. They are, however, quick to see the relevance of new ideas and are frequently instrumental in introducing sound ideas from an external source.

Without the stimulus of others, for example in solitary jobs, RESOURCE INVESTIGATORS can become easily bored, demoralised and ineffective. Within the team, however, they are good improvisers and are active under pressure, although they can over-relax when it eases. They can fail to follow up tasks they undertook in one of their frequent bursts of short-lived enthusiasm. Their range of outside interests can lead them, like PLANTS, to spend too much time on irrelevancies that interest them; nevertheless they have an important team role to preserve the team from stagnation, fossilisation and losing touch with reality.