What a team!

Our team worked unexpectedly well. Despite having very different and busy schedules, we managed to find time to meet and efficiently finish all tasks. Our first meeting consisted of introductions and assigning roles to one another. One team member was pretty confident with the role she wanted to assume to ensure completion of Assignment 2. Suggestions were made that I would be a good leader for the team, while being unsure at first, I believed I could effectively lead our team.

Unfortunately we had lost a team member so we all had to step up and assume many roles at once to ensure we all got the report completed. Another team member and myself were initially implementers - we needed a bit of guidance to begin working on the assignment. One person of the team went above and beyond to startup the process of working on our assignment, she showed strong leadership skills and I believed that she had the strong and positive qualities of a coordinator. As the report progressed and we had finished a draft copy, we all became thorough completer finishers where we constantly read over the report to reduce the word count and make it perfect.

Upon learning the belbin team roles, I believed I had attributes of most of the positions, but agreed that I fit best with the Coordinator, monitor evaluator, implementer and the completer finisher. I agree that I am a good motivator, I set deadlines to have things completed by, I can be manipulative by convincing others that I have a lot to do - dare I say it. Like the monitor evaluator I initially start slow, but once I have a great understanding of what needs to be done I quickly become bossy. An implementer - although I am hard working and will definitely get the job done I definitely need guidance to be able to get to that position. I am meticulous, I read over everything with a fine tooth comb; everything has to be perfect. I make sure that everyone is on track with what they are doing, which are also great qualities of a completer finisher.

With the loss of one of our team members, our tutor suggested that we either drop step 3 of the assignment which was the public survey or to only have 2 topics for step 2. We chose the latter as we had already sent out our public survey and had began collecting results. With the other two team members focusing on the body of our report and the introduction already completed I was at a loss of what I had to do to contribute to this assignment. I was getting worried that I wasn't doing as much as the others and was letting the team down. Upon the second meeting, with the other two working on their sections I began to figure out what I should do as a contribution for the report. With the guidance of others I managed to work through all the bits and pieces that made the report.. a report. I assumed the position of a completer finisher and read through everything excessively to make sure it made sense and we were under the word limit.

Throughout the duration of us working on our report, I believe we successfully worked together to complete assignment 2. Though we had many bumps along the road, we managed to produce a great report as well as learning to work as a team. This new experience has been exciting for me and I am so grateful to be part of a team that was hard working and knew exactly what they wanted to achieve.