We as team 5 were extremely efficient while demonstrating the cooperator role. The Cooperator role is found in the social part of the circle and according to the textbook is defined as, supporting those with expertise towards the team’s goal. We all worked together towards a common goal of trying to figure out who the main suspect was. After reviewing Figure 9.7 in the textbook, I feel that I best demonstrated the contractor’s role. The contractor’s role is a task role and according to the textbook includes behaviors that serve to organize the team’s work. I feel that when the project began I helped assign the roles and the topics we should address about the fugitives. .
In my opinion our group was missing a major part of the task role, the critic role. The textbook claims that the critic role is similar to the term “devil’s advocate.” We all trusted each other in the group and we never picked up on the fact that our sheets were different. If we had a critic in our group it is possible that he would have wished to see everyone else’s sheets to verify what they said. He would not go based solely on their word and would request that they verified their answers. A critic would of kept us in check and provided a lot of benefits to our group.
I feel that we are in the early stages of development as a team. We are starting to get to know each other and becoming comfortable expressing our ideas as a whole to each other but we have yet to be tested. I feel that every strong group is tested and arguing occurs to provide benefits to the group, and we have yet to experience that. Right now we are all calibrating with each other and trying not to start any fighting. I feel that after we become tested as a group, we will bond even closer.
Brian Gabriel
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