Essential roles in a self-managed working group (team)
Updated 6/5/2017
Updated 6/5/2017
A quick summary of what team members need to do in a self-managed working group to help it function effectively and efficiently.
Everyone:
- Takes responsibility for helping the team make progress.
- Shares the team goal.
- Helps to plan the path that gets the team to that goal.
- Notices communication problems and acts to resolve them.
- Pays attention to what the team needs for effective functioning "right now."
- Tries to supply the immediate need immediately.
- Points out needed action items.
- Takes action items when possible.
- Helps with action items when possible.
- Keeps track of pending action items.
- Keeps focused on the goal and shares that focus with the team.
Quotes
- Everybody's job is nobody's job.
- The secret to getting there is to know where you're going.
- A problem is just an opportunity to see what you can do.
- The gate to discovery opens if you ask the right question.
- You can get more practice in complaining than you can with fixing.
- If you are perfect on the first try, you have nowhere to go but down.
- If you are not learning new things, you already know all you will ever know.
