Both task facilitating and relationship building roles play
a huge part in managing a team. As a
supervisor, I find that I lean more toward relationship building, than task
facilitating. I am generally someone who
tries to understand others emotions and respond based on what I am gathering
from them, so I feel that I naturally lean more toward relationship building
roles. Whetton and Cameron note that relationship-building
roles emphasize support, harmony, tension relief, confrontation, energizing,
developmental, consensus building, and empathizing characteristics. I always try to bring harmony into a
situation by using support and understanding.
I find that a lot of problems occur in a team when people do not respect
the leader. For me, I find that respect
is usually earned when you show relationship building characteristics to the
other individuals. Once I have established
a relationship, task-facilitating roles seem to become easier and provide a
better result.
As we discussed this week in our class discussion, high
performance teams are often built on a variety of individuals with differing
backgrounds. Tossing out tasks
immediately may not go over well because people are still getting to know one
another and understand what they have to offer.
While high-performance teams generally move fairly fast, the relationship-building
segment of the team is crucial to the success.
When the team is getting along it makes it a lot easier to be success
and I believe that implementing the characteristics noted in the reading this
week would aid in that success.
I feel that as a team member, I generally look at how the
team structure is doing – is everyone happy, is there anything I can do, what
is missing, what is and is not working – once I’ve determined those issues, I
can then build off relationships to implement tasks with. I feel that the roles work off of each other
to help make a stronger team, but for me personally, I find that starting with
relationship building is easiest when working on the dynamics of a team
structure.
Whetten,
D. A., & Cameron, K. S. (2011).Developing management skills (8th
ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/Prentice Hall.
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