Talking about…Team Roles
As a ‘Brainstormer’ I guess my contribution to the team will be based around developing new ideas and solutions (failing so far). It is only early days yet though. I’m looking forward to getting underway with the project. I completely understand why it is important to go through the team roles and the strengths and weaknesses of your team and development of a uniform team agreement but it can be a bit stifling for someone like me who just wants to – for lack of a better word – brainstorm and dissect what needs to be done and think about how we can approach this project.
With saying that, I think it is very important to be aware of the strengths and weaknesses of not only your other team members but also yourself, because in a perfect world a team should be much more efficient than the multiple efforts of individuals. Simply because with a well coordinated team, skills and abilities are drawn from right across the spectrum hopefully resulting in the output being more perfected and holistically developed than that of an individual or a collection of individual efforts.
A weakness our team does have is that no-body has a preferred team role of a ‘coordinator’ which may or may not be a problem depending on how self directed the team decides to be. We have appointed a team leader which will make up for much of the weakness of not having someone who is naturally inclined to that type of role. However to balance it out we do have quite a few team workers which will mean getting in and getting the work done once decided upon shouldn’t be to arduous
