Team Player

Before we started our Museum Commission, we first looked at teamwork, and what makes a good team, as having a good team is important for getting the best possible outcome in a task, especially as a lot of assignments for our course involve teamwork. There are many things that make an effective team such as :

• A range of individuals who can contribute in different ways
• a coordinator who acts like the leader/facilitator
• comfort with disagreement 

Whilst other attributes make for an ineffective team, such as:

• members that are silent and don't contribute ideas
• arguments between people
• lack of clear goals and trust

And so knowing this, we discussed that a successful team was one that had a mix of strengths in the seven generic roles identified, these roles are:

• Evaluator
• Ideas person
• Leader
• Compromiser
• Summariser
• Recorder
• Encourager 

To find out what kind of role we brought to a team, we were asked to fill out an online questionaire (http://www.kent.ac.uk/careers/sk/teamwork.htm) and i got the highest score for summariser, which is quite true, I like to overview everything and understand what's going on as a whole but I also like to keep everything organised and on track, i'm a very organised person when it comes to a team member, and although I already knew what kind of worker I was from experience in was a good task to explore it as a class and try to sort out groups based on what would make us a good team and I hope it will make my team more effective.