Introduction Throughout the 24 weeks for our Team Project module we as a team voted on creating “A.

During the 1970’s, Dr Meredith Belbin and a team of researchers conducted research on a number of teams in an attempt to discover what aspects of a team’s dynamics can contribute towards the teams overall success or failure. They discovered that the success or failure of a team was not dependent upon the individual team members intellect but upon their behaviour. Following Belbin’s publication in 1981 of Team Role Analysis he concluded that there are nine key roles that are aligned to an individual’s behaviour that can contribute to the make up of a team. It is essential that as a leader I am able to understand the possible behavioural role that an individual may exhibit when

One of the concept I noticed while I was at Boys & Girls Club was the statues and roles. Each staff member had their own important roles that they played part in at B&G Club but the same status; their status was B&G club staff member. For example, Joe status was a staff member but a higher advanced one; Joe was the manager of the club. He had more important roles then the other staff members. Joe made sure everything was going in order. Another staff member is Jeff. Jeff’s role is less demanding. He just helps around Joe and make sure the kids are behaving. Each staff member had a different role they played. Either it was the manager. helping recreations, or small groups, they each put in a different part to help out.

Some people may be good at developing someone else’s idea and so are more effective within a team than working alone.

The identification and understanding of an individual’s role and that of the other team member’s roles is crucial as is the recognition of how the different roles complement each other and work together.

Knowing your own Belbin team role allows you to acknowledge your strengths and weaknesses thus helping you focus on what you need to do to improve. From doing the personality questionnaire I was identified as an implementer and a shaper at similar high scores, however the rest of my scores were evenly spread across the remaining 6 roles. I interpret this as in a group I would fit into the role of planning and carrying out strategies in a resourceful way, whilst providing drive to the team to keep the momentum. I may also be able to slot into any missing roles. Belbin (2009) states that implementers are happy to carry out the less appealing tasks in the team -those that other members do not want to do or

After seeing what choices my assistant, Sarah, would have made I continued the simulation when I encountered my first obstacle. Harvey, my choice for Assessor and Advisor was running into a conflict with the other team members because he was not available to them as much as they would have liked. I met with the team members and explained that Harvey had been given the technological tools necessary so that web conferencing would be able to take place whenever

Additionally, a study calendar outlined with each course study time, test dates, and completion dates will help with forward progress and set a benchmark that can be seen to keep up motivation.Finishing two to three lessons a week depending on the length and complexity of the course will help maintain my six month time line per semester this will also allow adequate time for semester testing. Furthermore, my first semester will have a completion date of January 1, 2017 keeping me on schedule of the four year time frame that I set for myself to complete my

Whilst it is important to know and succeed in your own role within the school it is also beneficial to have knowledge of others roles within your team and how you all can work effectively together.

I personally think I took on the roles of co-ordinator, team leader, monitor-evaluator and completer (Hartly, 2010 p.6), for example, I was the first to comment on the wiki and continue with the groups week to week activities to keep the group moving forward. I also kept the wiki up to date, while also making sure everyone was on task with the assessment. Even though it was a long drawn out process, I tried to get everyone collaborating on the group wiki provided and also took the lead to keep in contact with our eLA about the progress of a team, due to complications with team members not showing or disappearing through the

Roles and responsibilities – It is possible that during the project development some staff may have difficulty in defining their roles within the team or were not part of the role development process that takes place during the forming stage of Tuckman’s team development model. It is also likely within the project team to have duplication of roles/function, even though Belbin’s Team roles model may have been used. However it is not a pre-requisite that all team must have the nine roles specific by Belbin. ‘Team members can take on more than one role and some roles are not necessary in certain teams’. (Horn 2009:13)

Task leadership roles “help the group acquire, process, or apply information that contributes directly to completing a task or goal”, while procedural leadership roles, “are sets of communication behaviors that provide logistical support, keep the group focused on the task, and record the group’s accomplishments” (Verderber, Sellnow, Verderber 134). The task roles were filled primarily by two guys by the name of Eden and Nick, and the team leader Courtney. Courtney took the role of an opinion seeker by probing the team for their thoughts and ideas. The other two both took the role of analyzers by scrutinizing any issues with the reasoning of group discussing and trying to analyze how best to complete the tasks for the hunt. The procedural roles were filled mainly by me and two other people by the names of Sam and Kit. While Sam and I both took roles as expediters trying to keep everyone on track and helping to make sure that we got as many items done as we could. Everybody else in the group either switched between roles or never took any

Understanding the nature of teams and the features of the team roles and responsibilities including advantages and disadvantages.

During the balance of the year, trainers prepared course materials and devoted time to learning

The personal style and personalities of each member in a group may be influence their team effectiveness. Individuals will tend to play an important role in a group and depend on their personality and working group style. To improve a team and effectiveness in project or working, each team member need to understand the role of every member in a group. With 3 contemporary theories of team roles to use in our group is:

Everyone in the team adopted different roles according to their skills and personalities. The roles we played were not agreed by them team but just came according to each one 's abilities. The team had functional diversity, that is, different skills that put together allowed the team to achieve its goals (West, 2012). This also provided the team with different ideas to share and achieve the best outcomes (Sohmen, 2013). One member of the team was a resource investigator (Belbin, 1991-2006). She creates contacts during the fair and explored new selling opportunities, engaging people to come to the table. Another team member was more teamwork (Belbin, 1991-2006) being diplomatic and finding ways to make people agree to each other. The team also had a sharper member (Belbin, 1991-2006) that challenged the team ideas. She was helpful to improve and polish the team decisions, however it lead into some arguments with other team members. One team member played the role of