Team roles

A team consisting only of creative individuals runs the risk of getting drowned in ideas. A team consisting of only achievers runs the risk of getting lots of work done without an attractive result. So it can be useful to be aware of your natural role in a team.

Via the team roles test on the Career zone you can determine to what extent different team roles appeal to you, based on your personality. The extent to which a team role suits you is indicated by a number of points. The nine roles are:

• Implementer
• Resource investigator
• Plant
• Monitor Evaluator
• Shaper
• Coordinator
• Completer Finisher
• Team worker
• Specialist

Assignment:

• Take the Team Roles Test.
• At the end of the test you will be asked to fill in some data. You can skip this if you prefer not to. You will still get the result of the test.
• Read the report carefully so that it is clear how you should interpret the results.
• Also save your test results (pdf) in your Career Planning folder, for easy access.
   
• View your results. Do you recognize the outcome? What stands out? What does this mean in practice when you look at previous situations and you collaborated with people?
• Write down the three roles with the highest percentage in your Career Planning - working document. Give examples of situations where you had to collaborate with others and recognize yourself clearly in these roles. Can you also think of examples of your pitfalls in a team? How could you recognize these pitfalls and prevent falling into the same pitfall next time?
• Also indicate the two roles you received the lowest score in the test. Do you know of situations where you worked with people who fit this role (that you scored low)? If yes, did you experience any issues? How did you solve them / could you solve them?