Idea 62: How to encourage creativity
It is not always easy to manage the creative and innovative aspects of teamwork. Ideally, individuals need to share the values, characteristics and interests of the other team members, to work with them in harmony and yet have something different to offer.
Belbin identified nine team-member roles, some of which are relatively self-explanatory:
- Plant (solves difficult problems).
- Resource manager.
- Coordinator.
- Shaper.
- Monitor/evaluator.
- Team worker (cooperative, diplomatic).
- Implementer.
- Completer.
- Specialist.
A good team will exhibit all of the above ‘roles’, not necessarily with nine different people, but with fewer team members adopting different roles to complete the task.
Besides helping individuals to ...
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