Our team have raced our way to the finish line and have now
completed all of our assignments for our communications paper. This is the last blog post. This is the sweet, sweet end.
Looking back, our team faced several hurdles in getting through
this course. We had two team members
drop out in the week before our first group assignment was due. Our team started with 5 and it was initially difficult to communicate within the team. While some of our team members were saying the right things, and agreeing to meetings, they would not attend or would reschedule. Eventually, Mel, Yvonne and I realised we were on our own and we were able to pull together. From that point, our team really began to find traction and start succeeding. The three remaining team members pushed
through and managed to complete the task.
I think we were incredibly lucky that within the three of us, we had
access to several of the key Belbin roles.
Yvonne definitely exemplifies the role of Team
Co-ordinator. She was able to deftly
identify Mel & I’s key areas of skill and shape the tasks to ensure we were
working effectively and efficiently.
Additionally, Yvonne took on the role of Completer Finisher. She agonised over finishing the seminar to a
high quality, while I was ready to just hand in any old slop.
Mel was an excellent Team Worker, she was co-operative and
completed all tasks assigned to her. She
was also our Resource Investigator, she single handedly managed the interviews
of the health professionals which gave us the bulk of our resources.
I believe I played the role of Implementer. I created
timeframes and plans, which we didn’t always meet, but we tried! I definitely feel that having timeframes in a
team project is especially important, without timeframes, success or failure
cannot be measured.
I think our team, Mel, Yvonne and I, did amazingly well at
achieving our objectives. We all worked
full time during this paper, all have homes to run and families to see. But we pulled together, completed all the
assignments and are now all exceptionally happy to be able to say….
IT’S OVER BABY!
Peace out!
