Well today has been a bit of a shock to the system, a course on as Saturday! Anyhow, it has gone well and has been an interesting journey. Today we have looked at Meredith Belbin who identified 9 different behaviour types that individuals display in the work place, these are called the nine Team Roles. Typically, most people have two or three Team Roles that they are most comfortable with and prefer, and a few others that they can manage to cover if they need to; and finally the rest that they prefer not to adopt at all. These are explained in further detail at http://www.belbin.com/about/belbin-team-roles/.
From this research, I was able to identify myself with elements of Plant because I'm able to be creative, imaginative and share ideas. I am also a Resource Investigator as I'm outgoing, enthusiastic and I like to develop contacts. The area in which I have the most skills is as a Teamworker, I've always loved to be part of a team and this is a reason why I'm taking part in this leadership course. I'm also very good at being the Implementer as I can create actions to follow through an idea and organise the work that needs to be done. This is even more evident in my everyday school life as I job share with a NQT and I need these skills to make the relationship work. Whilst reading this team roles I can see that a role that I really need to develop is the Coordinator as I need to be able to delegate effectively, this has been happening through my leadership project as the TA has been running the maths intervention for me. We have worked together to evaluate the effectiveness of Autumn term 2 and will use this information to make changes to Spring 2 interventions. The class teachers have been updated and they are now carrying out maths interventions throughout Spring 1.
Today we looked at good teamwork and what it looks, sounds and feels like. I believe that a good team is approachable, effective, and can work together towards a goal or vision, they are all hardworking and united. Leaders can be changed depending on the task. The sounds that may be heard can be laughter, hard work, good communication and passion. In this environment all team members will feel supported, trusted. supported, have respect for each other and feel happy (most of the time). Effective teams have a great impact on each other. One of our group shared the idea of Eustress.
This was quite a useful idea because it shows how a good leader needs to push their team into Eustress to get optimal performance. I shall definitely begin to use these ideas to support myself as a leader in school and take myself out of my comfort zone a little more so that I can develop in more of Belbin's team roles.
