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Successful Team Building
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Successful Team Building

by Thomas L. Quick
April 1992
Intermediate to advanced
112 pages
2h 11m
English
AMACOM
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CHAPTER 7

TEAM-BUILDING ROLES

In an effectively functioning team, members consistently perform certain roles that contribute not only to reaching the current objectives set by the group but also to the ongoing improvement in the team’s long-term operation. Some of the most common and helpful team-building roles include supporting, confronting, gatekeeping, mediating, harmonizing, summarizing, and process observing. This chapter looks at each role in detail.

SUPPORTING

Supporting another member of the team goes beyond reinforcing the other’s point of view when you agree with it. That’s immensely desirable, but even more important is providing support ...

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