| Section
4: |
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| Team
Building |
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| Once
a group has established itself, effectively it becomes a team
- this occurs when the strengths (and weaknesses) of individual
group members has been recognised and they have been given or
assumed a role within the team (that hopefully will play to
their natural strengths!) |
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| Often
in such situations no one is responsible for allocating particular
roles or responsibilities to people but there develops an acceptance
amongst the group that certain people are better at certain
things! This process will have happened during the storming
and norming phase whether it was recognised or not! |
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| It
is often the case in smaller groups that there will be more
'jobs' or roles than people to perform them and it is perfectly
normal for group members to undertake more than one role - the
key thing to remember is don't let group members become
overloaded with jobs or responsibility - the route to success
is to share the workload over the whole group! |
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| Again,
much research has been carried out into teams and the roles
or functions that individual group members can be required to
fill. It is also worth noting that a particular role might stay
with a group member or pass between group members at different
times in the projects development. |
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| So
what are the roles group members might take on for the team
to work effectively? |
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| For
a team to work well together and for everything to get done
that needs to be done, on time (and properly finished off) team
members will have to take on the following roles - don't worry
about the names that have been given to these 'roles' the important
thing is what the people doing them are good at! |
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| We
will investigate these roles further in the next bit....
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