I saw Contractor, Contributor, Completer, Cooperator, and Communicator roles being filled during this exercise. Personally, I felt I was fulfilling the Contractor role during this team activity as I was facilitating discussion and assigning duties. Right as we were provided with the packet of information on the case and were told we could begin, I promptly started handing out different sheets to different people so that we could all begin working. After we had all read through the case details, I then started filling out the arrest sheet with the information that I knew to be accurate. I also listened to the input I was receiving from my team members and recorded the information they had gleaned from their reading as well. Since I was also the one taking the initiative to fill out our paperwork, I suppose I was additionally fulfilling the Completer role during this class assignment.
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I really believe we could have used a Critic, as our team was quick to trust each other and rely on each other’s work and not question anything, even when the information we were providing was conflicting. If we had a Critic on our team, they would have noticed that our pages were different and then we would have been able to finish this assignment rather quickly, perhaps even win.
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Obviously, on the day that teams formed in class our team went through the forming stage. Since then, we signed our team contract and discussed a list of statements that helped our team navigate its way through the storming phase into the norming phase. The first in-class activity or two that were designed for teams, our team was still working its way through the norming phase and into performance. Now, at this point in the semester, I feel our team is working well together as a cohesive unit and we are most definitely in the performance stage. We will not reach the adjourning stage until the end of the semester when we are finished with all our team projects and assignments.
Josh Throop
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