CSI - Normal

CSI – Normal

The Team Role Typology wheel has three different roles within it: task roles, social roles or boundary-spanning roles. Each broad role is broken down into smaller, more specific roles that my team members and I fall under.  I saw my team falling under the contributor, completer, critic, coordinator and the cooperator roles. The three group members that had the information sheets from the case all were contributors. We had information about the case to bring to the team and showing other team members were we got the information. The completer role was done by two team members. They had to write down the information why we cleared the suspects and then cross them off our suspect list sheet. This helped the team stay on track and to see what needed to be done still. The critic role was to keep us all on top of the mystery. Sometimes one of us group members would read a clue, but take it differently than most would. It was the critic’s role to explain that it wasn’t what that meant and to help us get back on track. All the team members had a part in the cooperator role. Since none of us have ever solved a murder case, we all relied on each other to learn what we could from the case. We all come from different backgrounds, so that helped us pick out different things from the clues. The role of the coordinator was to get the information and suspect list to Dr. Sheep for review and then bring the results back to the team.

 I found myself playing the role of the completer, cooperator and contributor. I started out with a fact sheet, so I was able to read over that, pick out the important points and then share that with my group, which would makes me a contributor. From those facts, we were able to have a discussion over the suspect list on who to eliminate. After reading the fact sheet, I began to be a completer. I took the suspect list and started to mark off the men as we eliminated them. This helped our team remember who has already been eliminated and who was left yet. I also had a role as the cooperator. I don’t have much knowledge on solving mysteries, so I relied on my team members to assist me when I needed it.

 I think that all the roles that were shown and mentioned earlier were all important to our team and this case. Without them, we would have lagged in some way. It would have been nice to have a calibrator type on our team. The calibrator would have read all the different sheets and picked up on the differences, which is one thing that our team didn’t discover.

I feel that our group is at the performing stage. We all realize that we want to reach the same goals as each other in class and we strive to reach them. We work together quickly to get our work done, but then we make sure that we are doing it with quality too. We are still learning from each other, but I think that is a never changing process. 

--Krisit Rudin