Write a blog entry on task-facilitating and relationship-building roles. In your blog, reflect upon your understanding of how these roles enhance team performance.
Consider how you generally relate as a team-member.
I believe I rate extremely high as a team member who is a valued asset. I am generally interested in the issues and problems the team is faced with. I like and enjoy the challenge of dissecting a problem into manageable slices and looking at how they relate to each other and the whole picture. I enjoy forecasting how manipulating the pieces might change the outcome and look for the best outcome.
As a task facilitator, I look for the strong points in individuals and how that can be an asset toward resolution of a problem or completion of a task. I also look at those who may be lacking in certain skills, as a method of equally assigning work to individual groups with differing degrees of experience, education and interpersonal skills.
Do you actively engage your team to accomplish its mission?
Since life is all about group work and since all members (including myself,) may not know all team members, I always make it a practice to go around the room and have everybody introduce themselves and state where they are from and what their primary job is. I believe this adds a method of breaking the ice initially and serves as a way for the team to gain some familiarity early on, since not working well with others can be a reason for failure of the team.
I also state the reason we are a team and the proposed agenda, itinerary and task or problem we are to formulate a solution. I take some time to solicit from the team if its members have been involved prior to with similar issues and to share how those were alleviated? Knowing they might not fit into our scenario, we may be able to adapt and manipulate to our advantage and avoid re-inventing the wheel.
Do you work to improve the team cohesion and collaboration?
As a facilitator, I prefer to use Roberts Rules of Order for record keeping and a method of keeping meetings and topics on track, to avoid redundancy, group think and to accomplish the groups assigned task(s) and as a way to maintain or improve the groups cohesiveness.
I utilize the Technical, Decision-making and Interpersonal skills that members bring to the team individually and collectively, in a manner to accent the group as a whole and not just a portion of. In other words using the right mix of those skills is key to team success.
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