Throughout the CSI-Normal in class exercise, I saw that each individual of my team was taking on different roles that fell under the three team roles: social roles, task roles, and boundary-spaning roles. Starting with the tasks roles, i saw contributor roles, completer roles, and critic roles. Each group member that had an information sheet would be a contributor, being the ones with the information and bringing what they knew to the table for everyone to hear. The completer roles were done by the two members of our team that were writing down the information as to why we were clearing possible suspects, which helped our team stay on track with where we were in the case and what still needed to get done. They were transforming our ideas of who should no longer be a suspect into action, by crossing them off the list. The critic role was played when a team member would read something off of their sheet that the other members didn't agree with (because this piece of information wasn't on their sheet).
Falling under the social roles, I saw the cooperator role being performed within our team. I saw this role when one team member would suggest a reason as to why i suspect should be crossed of the list, and the rest of the team would agree.
The last role I saw present was the coordinator role, which falls under the boundary-spanning roles. I saw this when a team member would check with Dr. Sheep that we had the right to conclusion as to who had committed the crime.
I played the roles of the contributor, critic, and cooperator. I started out with a fact sheet, so I was able to go over that and bring the key factors from the sheet to the table and share with everyone., which would help us figure out who should be crossed off and who should be suspected. I played the critic role because at one point I didn't agree with what another member had said until they explained and showed it to me on their information sheet. When another team member would point out a good reason as to why a suspect should be crossed of the list, I agreed with them which would make me a cooperator.
I believe that all the roles listed above were important to our team's success but the contributor, cooperator, and coordinator roles were the most helpful to our team's success as to solving the mystery. The contributor role was what brought the ideas and information to the table to help us figure out why suspects should or should not be suspected. The cooperator role was most helpful because it meant that when our team made a strong decision, we all backed it up and agreed, instead of starting a disagreement over it. and The coordinator role was important because it connected us to Dr. Sheep so that we knew whether we had solved the mystery correctly or not.
I think that our team is at the performing stage. We are all aware that we are working together and have the same goals to reach in the end, whether we are working a seperate small tasks throughout or not. We work together quickly and finish our work well. We make sure that we are paying attention and taking the time to make sure the job is finished thoroughly.
-Kylie Merth
I think that the critic role was very important to the success of our team. Without anyone questioning our reasons, we could have got way off path. Being the critic is not something that everyone wants to do, but is still very important for team success. The critic needs to be able to explain themselves in a way that won’t make other team members feel that their ideas are dumb and then not speak anymore. Each of our team members does the critic role very tactfully. That being said, I think that the critic role would have been important to finding out that each sheet had different information. If the critic would have questioned where they found it on the information sheet, and tried to cross reference on their own sheet and not found it, it would have been discovered. No one on the team, including myself, really did that step. We were more focused on getting done first.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that our team in is the performing stage of development. We have gotten over being quiet and conservative around each other and feel free to offer our ideas so we can all succeed. We all have the same goals that we are trying to reach in the end and no one tries to take control of all team projects.
--Kristi Rudin