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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.
- Do you actively engage your team to accomplish its mission?
- Do you work to improve the team cohesion and collaboration?
Like a machine, a team has lots of moving parts. Task-facilitating helps to keep all the cogs in a machine (team) running smoothly. One part of the machine cannot just replace another. There are shapes and specific designs that keep the machine moving. When specific roles have been assigned through task-facilitation, the team can become highly effective just like a well-oiled machine.
According to Friends of the Earth (n.d.), the facilitator serves the group, helping them to keep to agreed meeting processes
and attempting to maximize the democracy and inclusivity of those processes. The facilitator is much like the power source running the machine. This comparison serves to explain that the facilitator is the most critical role in providing the team with a clear-cut vision and direction.
In addition to identifying and assigning roles, building solid relationships throughout the team is vital to success. Interpersonal relationships can make or break a team as lackluster relationships can hinder successful teams and sabotage success. Teams that collectively have good relationships and work well together with well-defined roles will most definitely have the clearest path to success. A facilitator should always work on building teams and recognizing what groups of people will form a strong team.
As for myself, I relate as a team member in a very unselfish and respectful manner. I know my strengths and weaknesses, but will always do what is asked from the facilitator/leader and am not afraid to ask for help when needed to accomplish the task(s) that I have been assigned. When asked to be a facilitator, I am generally hands off, but set clear deadlines and "rules of engagement" for my team ahead of time. Knowing as a team member that it can be frustrating having a lack of guidance from a facilitator helps me to be clear and concise as a facilitator when my roles have changed.
Lastly, I work hard initially to place the right members on my team, so less energy has to be spent in building team cohesion and collaboration. This way, a real focus can be placed on the tasks at hand. Not that cohesion and collaboration will be ignored, but every effort to put a solid team that already has these functions down is key. If needed, team building exercises or the reassigning of personnel can be utilized to solidify cohesion and collaboration.
References
Friends of Earth. (n.d.). Facilitating fun and effective meetings. Retrieved from
https://www.foe.co.uk/sites/default/files/downloads/facilitating_meetings_role.pdf
In addition to identifying and assigning roles, building solid relationships throughout the team is vital to success. Interpersonal relationships can make or break a team as lackluster relationships can hinder successful teams and sabotage success. Teams that collectively have good relationships and work well together with well-defined roles will most definitely have the clearest path to success. A facilitator should always work on building teams and recognizing what groups of people will form a strong team.
As for myself, I relate as a team member in a very unselfish and respectful manner. I know my strengths and weaknesses, but will always do what is asked from the facilitator/leader and am not afraid to ask for help when needed to accomplish the task(s) that I have been assigned. When asked to be a facilitator, I am generally hands off, but set clear deadlines and "rules of engagement" for my team ahead of time. Knowing as a team member that it can be frustrating having a lack of guidance from a facilitator helps me to be clear and concise as a facilitator when my roles have changed.
Lastly, I work hard initially to place the right members on my team, so less energy has to be spent in building team cohesion and collaboration. This way, a real focus can be placed on the tasks at hand. Not that cohesion and collaboration will be ignored, but every effort to put a solid team that already has these functions down is key. If needed, team building exercises or the reassigning of personnel can be utilized to solidify cohesion and collaboration.
References
Friends of Earth. (n.d.). Facilitating fun and effective meetings. Retrieved from
https://www.foe.co.uk/sites/default/files/downloads/facilitating_meetings_role.pdf
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