M1 - Comparing roles of different team members

M1 – To compare the roles of different members of a team

 

For this task, we were told we needed to set up a fundraiser event to raise money for a charity. We organised ourselves into a group of six, which included myself, Chelsi, Jess, Eady, Jack and Jamie. Our plan was to host a ‘total wipe-out’ event, which would include a cake sale and fancy dress. This means our profit would average out to over £1,000, since we would charge £1 for fancy dress, 50p to play total wipe-out and cakes ranging from 50p-£1.50. Bearing in mind there are over 1,000 people in this school. Furthermore, whilst trying to arrange this event, we essentially gave roles to ourselves following Belbin’s ‘Team Role Summary Descriptions.

 

Meredith Belbin is a British researcher who is best known for his theories designated towards teamwork. Belbin created an idea which branched off into nine important team roles. He believes that a tea m has to have these roles to succeed. When doing this task, we naturally fell into certain roles:

 

§  Plant – Creative, imaginative and free-thinking – Everyone

§  Resource Investigator – Outgoing and enthusiastic – Chelsi

§  Co-ordinator – Mature, confident and communicative – Myself

§  Shaper – Challenging, dynamic and non-pressurised – Jess

§  Monitor Evaluator – Sober, strategic and discerning – Eady

§  Team worker – co-operative, perceptive and diplomatic – Jack

§  Implementer – Practical, reliable & efficient -  Myself, Chelsi

§  Completer Finisher – Painstaking, Conscientious, anxious – Chelsi

§  Specialist – Single-minded, self-starting & dedicated – Jamie

 

The plant would class as everyone during this task, since all members in the team put in a certain level of effort and shared creative and imaginative ideas with each other. The resource investigator would be Chelsi, because she is outgoing and enthusiastic and is good for developing new ideas. My role during the assignment would have been put towards the co-ordinator role, because I clarified the goals which were needed to be done and took charge. I tried to contribute a fair amount, since I could be seen as manipulative otherwise. The shaper was Jess since she was challenging and dynamic during the task and shared courage amongst the group. Monitor Evaluator would be Eady because she was strategic and judges everything accurately, so the group doesn’t make any mistakes. Jack would be the team worker in this circumstance since he works effectively with the group and bounces off everybody’s ideas, minimalizing conflicts. He also listens to the group which averts frictions because he is embracing everybody’s points of views.

 

Chelsi and I would be the Implementers because we worked practically and reliably, which made the task organized. We also made ideas into actions, which took a certain amount of responsibility. Chelsi was the completer finisher too, which means she searches out all of the errors and polishes/perfects the task. Jamie would be the specialist here, because she is single-minded and provides very helpful knowledge and skills in rare supply. The weakness with this is that a specialist will only contribute on a narrow front, dwelling on opening up ideas.

 

I believe that our team worked very well during this task, however could be improved. This expands on to opening up our knowledge and also averting conflicts and friction. This can be done by only having one leader, because if they were two then the team would be debating two sides.