Reflective aid

1) How do I sabotage my team?

Out of the list we draw today in a seminar, I would choose the Dominance for I feel I'm falling into that. I guess the reason is simple, nobody really cares much about the project, but I just wouldn't like to fail the course simply because of that. So I'm really trying to push that project forward, is it counted as being dominant? I guess, I have to learn how to motivate others as well.

2) Belbin team member profile

There are several types of team personalities in the list we got, such as Implementer, co-ordinator, shaper, plant, resource investigator, monitor-evaluator and team-worker. However, I think, it's hard to choose only one of those. People are different, and we all accept that, then it's obvious that we cannot group people just like that. In my own opinion, there has to be a test that shows this and that results in percentage rate. For example, for me I'd say that co-ordinator suits me 50%, plant 20% and implementer 30%. But of course, this rate depends on the situation, on group, on task, on time, etc.

The three 'types' I would most want on my team are Resource investigator, Plant and Implementer. Reasons: Resource investigator - outgoing, sociable, we need him for drawing in more students to participate; Plant - creative, idea-man, needed for giving interesting ideas and solutions; Implementer - steady, reliable, gets things done, a well-disciplined, organised member of the group to count on.

Shapers are usually to impatient, that's why I prefer not dealing with them. Monitor-evaluator can be replaced by others in our team (by co-ordinator, for example) and team-worker is not needed here at all, 'cause so far we get along well, I think, it won't change radically.