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A520.6.5.RB – Team Roles

Both, task-facilitators and relationship-builders are team performance enhancers. Task-facilitating roles are those that “help the team accomplish its out-comes or objectives” (Whetten & Cameron, 2011, p. 513). On the other hand, relationship-building roles are those that “emphasize the interpersonal aspects of them” (Whetten & Cameron, 2011, p. 514). Nevertheless, in most cases leaders are not always capable of making use of both at the same time, leaving always one behind. 

•    Consider how you generally relate as a team-member.

   As a team-member, I generally relate more to the task-facilitator role. In many occasions, I found myself with unclear direction as to where to go with an assigned task. Therefore, I find it very important to help others transition from not knowing to understanding their objective. Demonstrating patience and care for your team as they reach out for help provides them trust in their organization. And most importantly, it shows integrity and in return performance is higher. Nonetheless, a relationship-building role is always in the back on my mind.

•    Do you actively engage your team to accomplish its mission?

I absolutely actively try to engage my team to make sure they accomplish its mission. Maintaining an open communication with your team is what makes a team, work. In addition, providing positive feedback along the way increases the team’s self-steam. Every time a team member accomplishes a milestone, I make sure they are verbally rewarded. It is important to demonstrated appreciation for your employees’ hard work, they feel more valued and invest more time on the well being of the organization.

•    Do you work to improve the team cohesion and collaboration?

Improving the team cohesion and collaboration is my number one priority when participating in a team setting. Nevertheless, it is always a challenge to bring everyone to one same standard and have team members collaborate at the same level as everyone else. While attempting to form a more coherent environment with the team, focusing on one goal at the time seems to help get through each objective. Additionally, I make sure that for the most part; we (the team) all learn to work together without thinking who is better than the other. Diversity always brings the best results and listening to new ideas can make a team a success.

References

Whetten, D., & Cameron, K. (2011). Developing Management Skills (8th ed.). Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson Education.