This week I have to go away from my normally outrageously
creative blog topics and focus on an analysis of my team members. And then they
get to read it :o lucky they don’t know where I live, well I hope they don't anway!?
Ami absorbed a number of roles, she was like the Pitbull
of the team (the singer not the dog); she was involved in everything! I’d say
her main roles fell under the leadership categories; she took the monitor
evaluator and shaper roles. She was very focused on getting the job done,
making sure all ideas could be implemented. Overtime it seemed she also took over
the Coordinator role demanding the final work to be done by certain dates in
order to make sure we finished in time. She was very logical and seemed to make
impartial judgements when required. One issue was at times it was her way or
the highway. She would state what was happening and if anyone argued she would
almost bully them into submission, and when I say bully I don’t mean she gave
everyone wedgies she more just argued
until she got her way. That being said if she was in minority she would back
down which meant it didn't turn into much of a problem. She also took the role of ‘Completer
Finisher’, editing everyone’s work and creating the final product. A tough job
for one and perhaps more should have chipped in to create a more polished error
free piece of work.
Rose was assigned with the leadership role, she was the
Co-ordinater. Rose has to learn that the role of leader is not simply assigning
roles and setting deadlines, although everyone listened to her it felt she
could have done more and taken a more assertive approach to get better results
from everyone. Her communication skills need work with people at times not
knowing what their jobs were. Ami seemed to take over this role at times, near
the end and it seemed Rose turned into more of a figurehead kind of like the Governor General
of the team. She also took the role of
Shaper, I’d always get texts reminding me of deadlines and asking how my work
was going which was annoying, I don’t like getting asked to do things when I’m
already doing them, but this was much needed within the group creating a slight
pressure on the group to finish things on time. I think Rose also absorbed the
team worker role, she was always trying to create meetings and stay in contact
with everyone.
Kelly was no doubt the Resource Investigator. She was the
one who got two out of three of our surveys interviewing professionals who had
an informed opinion on preventative healthcare. These interviews were vital to the assignment.
Although providing interviews they seemed to be handed in late, pushing the assignment
deadline.
Virginia was definitely the implementer; she did what was
asked of her on time and to good quality. I did notice she didn’t really
provide much more work than her question section. Everyone seemed to have
multiple tasks bar her. I noticed a few
times she may of held a view but didn’t speak up to avoid confrontation with
someone that had the opposite view to her.
Are we supposed to review ourselves? Because if so I’m
awesome, but seriously. It’s a lot easier to review yourself because you know
what roles you tried to adopt when others may not have noticed. I think I fell
into the implementer role, like Bane off batman not the new one but the old-school
one who just did what poison ivy told him to. I love that movie solely because
of Arnie playing Mr Freeze. At the
beginning I tried getting things started and tried absorbing a leadership role
but failed due to missing the role assigning meeting due to having surgery for
my broken arm. Quick tip don’t break your arm because it’s really quite
uncomfortable! I also tried taking on a completer-finisher role because I knew
one person couldn’t do it by themselves.
Our team lacked a plant and a specialist which didn’t
make the job any harder in my opinion. In the beginning I thought maybe
everyone could take a specialist role, being tasked with a specific job each,
maybe like a researcher and a writer and an interviewer etc., but instead jobs
were split up to the people. The lack of a specialist didn’t hinder the team’s
performance in my opinion. The nature of the report didn’t require a plant
because it was quite a black and white assignment, we needed to think of what
side of the fence we were going to sit and then the different topics were split
between everyone to write about. Is it just me or does the plant role sound
like Groot from Guardians of the Galaxy,
not just because he’s a plant but he just seems laidback with a bunch of
unreasonable ideas . I AM GROOT!
The main weakness was definitely communication, at times
people seemed confused about what they were supposed to do and by what date.
That being said communication could’ve been a lot worse, everything still got
done. It was definitely not as bad as talking to Consuela on the phone, only
family guy watchers would get that! A lack of an awesome team name was also a massive weakness, team 16 just didn't have a good ring to it. Maybe something like 'Power Rangers'? Or Planeteers because we did a report on health which is kind of close to the environment, Let our powers unite!
All up I think the team was quite efficient, everything was on time, most of the time everyone knew what they were doing and people chipped into different tasks when required. It was handed in on time with little fear that it wasn't going to be handed in on time. Definitely could've been way worse!
Thanks for reading everyone
bye bye now
