ESTABLISHED RULES & TEAM

Established Rules & Team

Established Rules & Team

Each of the project roles and the team members you are assigning to each role.

For the most part, our team tries to break down each of our projects and delegate responsibility for each team activity. Different members even try to call each other or call the ones that seem to be left behind. If there is a problem with coming up with answers or ways to complete projects the team tries to pull together to get feedback from each member on how to proceed. The leadership of the team is done on an agreed on available part-time or phase of work to be done. When work is completed we all try to confer upon it to get the approval of each member before handing in the projects or questions and posting them. If one member sees a problem with something he or she tries to contact the person working on the project to help in seeing that it is done correctly. All in all, no one is left alone to do anything really by themselves and we must all concur on how things are done or are to be done. Aside from these things we all try to treat each other with courtesy, consideration, and respect.

What each individual brings to that role, their personality, and the benefits and liabilities of having that person on the team.

     Roles within teams are grouped into two main categories. Task oriented roles help teams focus on objectives, which includes giving, and seeking information, elaborating ideas, coordinating activities and summarizing discussions. In his article, "Groups that Work", Gerard Blair states that frequently, the task is the only issue the group considers. Relationship oriented roles typically focus on conflict resolution, maintaining communication, encouraging positive behaviors and identifying process problems (McShane, Von-Glinow, 2004). Blair looks at relationship roles as process roles and states that when the process is overlooked, the value of the group can be diminished as it ceases to work as unit. In our team, the job of team leader is rotated on a weekly basis.  For the purposes of our group, the team leader functions primarily as the initiator, identifying the goals for the week and making the individual projects for the other group members.  In our experience, the team leader also functions in the roles of information giver by sharing information relative to the team task and as evaluator by assessing our progress against the project as identified in the syllabus. Based on the feedback we have received on our weekly team projects to date, each new team leader is able to incorporate more of the positive functionality into the team leader role. Having said that, both Anna and Michael have emerged as informal initiators as both individuals seems to be at the ready each week to initiate the new plan. Interestingly, each also seems to have tendencies to function as group harmonizers making sure their enthusiasm for the next plan is received as ...