The Contribution Compass is a profile of how a person naturally thinks and works, and where they make their best contribution in a team.

Enshrine uses it in search and in leadership work at Brandbach Wetlands Retreat. A candidate who has completed the profile and agreed receives it at no extra cost.

What it changes

– The role is matched to the way the person naturally works.

– A team is not hired as copies of the same person.

– The gaps in a team can be seen before the next person is hired.

The four energies

Activating, in the north, starts the idea and pulls the work forward.

Inspiring, in the east, brings other people with it.

Sustaining, in the south, carries the work through and looks after what has been promised.

Refining, in the west, improves the process, the system and the result.

A strong team has all four. One energy on its own starts work it does not finish, or finishes work that should have changed.

The eight profiles

1. Catalyst — Activating — Accelerating change

Dynamic, stimulating and driven. Gets something going, often a new business, a new project, or the next step of a project that has stalled. Lives in ideas and in a picture of the future.

Best in product and service design, a start-up, and the management of a new project.

In a new team, the first person beside a Catalyst is a Coach. The next is a Cultivator.

2. Champion — Activating and Inspiring — Blazing a trail

Shakes up what is already accepted and gets people to look at a message. Takes a proven idea and carries it to a wide audience.

Best in branding, sales and marketing, public speaking and fundraising.

3. Coach — Inspiring — Igniting greatness

Lights the team around one idea. Understands people, and what they need in order to get through a hard patch. Warm, energetic and motivating.

Best in team management, talent and human resources, recruitment, customer acquisition and networking.

4. Connector — Inspiring and Sustaining — Building bridges

Brings the right people, ideas and resources together at the right time. Talks a problem through until the group has a way forward.

Best in stakeholder work, programme coordination and building the network a project depends on.

5. Custodian — Sustaining — Honouring the promise

Looks after the idea, the asset and the deadline. Gentle and practical. Knows what the resources and the timing will actually allow.

Best in operations, customer service and account management.

6. Cultivator — Sustaining and Refining — Nurturing growth

Shapes a team, a project or a business by small adjustments, over time. Manages a complex set of deliverables, and watches the resources and the risk.

Best in project management, risk, quality and sustainability.

This is not the Conductor. The Conductor is precise and commanding. The Cultivator grows what has already been started.

7. Conductor — Refining — Optimising the performance

Directs the parts into one performance. Makes a process run properly. Finds the meaning in the numbers.

Best in production, operations and financial performance.

8. Calibrator — Refining and Activating — Fine-tuning the instruments

Keeps improving the system the work depends on. Tests, adjusts and tries a better way to do an old job.

Best in technical direction, quality, engineering standards and system improvement.

A role is not owned by one profile. A sales team does not have to be all Champions. An engineering team does not have to be all Calibrators. The profile is matched to the work the role actually does, and to the people already in the team.

Our ideology

Enshrine was born from a desire to make a meaningful difference. Every person has a path. When the work matches their natural energy, they contribute at their best.

Re-engineer your life’s journey. Find your purpose. Enshrine your career.