A Plant is a generator of ideas. He is the innovator who looks at problems and comes up with new solutions. A Plant is imaginative and interested in abstract ideas. A Plant bears a strong resemblance to the popular caricature of the absentminded professor-inventor. This role is called Plant to literally indicate if you want to initiate new ideas into a team, you need to ‘plant’ one in there.

• Positive qualities: creative, innovative, knowledgeable, imaginative, unorthodox
• Negative qualities: lack of communication skills, up in the clouds, disregard for practical details