From the course: Teamwork Foundations
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Divide up the work on the team
From the course: Teamwork Foundations
Divide up the work on the team
- Lots of things need to be done within a successful team, and they fall into four main areas. First, management functions. Someone in the team needs to organize things to think longer term, et cetera. Second, people functions. Obviously, it's a team, so the people need to be looked after. Then third, creativity functions. If the team's got to achieve something new, then these are important. And finally, fourth, someone's got to get on and actually do that work. And by the way, you can download a list of the following team functions from the exercise files that go with this course. So we've got four areas, and within each of the areas, there are three main roles that I've identified. Within the management area, there are three roles that need to be fulfilled by someone in the team. And the first one is the organizer, the organizer of people and of ideas, somebody who's going to keep everything neat and tidy. The second management role is the driver. This is the person who's pushing…
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