On Thursday in Organizational Behavior class the different team were asked to solve a murder crime using clues in a story that we were given. There are many different roles that different people need to take amongst the teams in order to complete certain tasks. During this exercise I really felt like Kenny was the communicator which is a social team role. He was the first to begin communicating the differences in clues and information on each persons sheet. I felt like Greg did a great job in a contractor role as he was the one writing down all the information in order for us to sort out which persons were innocent. And Steve was a major contributor finding many different clues that led to us solving the murder. I would say that I played the role of completer simply because I found the final clue and then brought the paper up to the professor. All of these roles were important and none more important than another.
I think one role that we did not seem to have in the group was a coordinator. I believe if we had a coordinator that we would have finished the mystery first rather than third. It would have allowed us to ask the questions that we needed to as well as share information amongst the group in a more efficient manner. We discovered that the sheets were different pretty quickly, but if we would have had someone to coordinate between the sheets we would have discovered all of the specific differences much faster.
Lastly, I really feel after the past few team exercises that we have done that our team has really gone into the Performing stage of team development. Each person really knows their individual place on the team and we have set norms or standards for what our team expects to get done on certain occasions. We communicate very effectively and have gotten past any forming issues that we may have had.
Ricky Hearden
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