Second round of pre-MBA workshops

[samvara]

Introduction to Referencing probably wasn’t critical to my survival but it was a good refresher and being there meant I got to have a passionate conversation with one of the (gorgeous, omg perfectly straight waist length hair) Chinese women about styles of leadership and teamwork from a very different cultural perspective. We compared my tendency to leap in boots first, her strong teamwork skills and talked about where that comes from plus the associated pitfalls.

Enhancing Your Team Experience (Pt B) was ridiculously fun. We’re all motivated and have previous experience so we’re being incredibly well behaved and radiating ‘ideal team mate’ at each other. It was a joy to work in a group of five on a timed exercise where we’re all hyperconscious of how we’re treating each other and focussing on creating the best possible team dynamic. We’re also pretty competitive so balancing ‘Task-Goal’ with ‘Team’ was a challenge. My team came second in speed but got the first correct answer, we were rewarded with slim UWA embossed wallets which is handy, I can store my new swipe card/ID in it :p

We did an abbreviated version of the Belbin Model for team analysis – if you’re interested there’s an online variant. The idea is to answer the questions while contemplating how you behave in team situations. I’d love to know what my AD&T team members get! I’m also conscious that for me, this partly reflects my preferences and that in practice with AD&T I Shape and Coordinate more than I Resource Investigate.

1. Resource Investigator 83
2. Shaper 72
3. Coordinator 69
4. Specialist 64
5. Plant 61
6. Team Worker 56
7. Implementer 53
8. Monitor Evaluator 53
9. Completer Finisher 50

Comments

[ascetic_hedony]

Oh dear - identical scores for Plant, Coordinator and Teamworker. Tie breaker has it as Plant. Apparently, I'm the schizotypal one.

[samvara]

C'mon, details!

[ascetic_hedony]

I've long since closed the tab... umm, 72 for the top 3 tie, tie was broken because I picked creative thinking (plant) over being called mature and something else. Implementor and Completer Finisher were my lowest scores, somewhere in the 40s. No surprises there.

[samvara]

*g* Completor-finishers are very rare

[bingeling]

Oh look! I'm theoretically doing an internship as project manager! Maybe I shouldn't! Thankfully I'm designing anyway. xD

You Scored as Completer Finisher

The Completer Finisher is a perfectionist. You can be trusted to have reliably checked the details over. The Completer Finisher has a strong inward sense of the need for accuracy.

Completer Finisher 86%
Teamworker 81%
Shaper 70%
Plant 61%
Monitor Evaluator 61%
Resource Investigator 58%
Specialist 53%
Implementer 44%
Coordinator 42%

[samvara]

Oooh, according to my lecturer Completer Finishers are rare treasures!

*treasures you*

[bingeling]

Lookit, I'm all speshul n stuff! :]

[maharetr]

You Scored as Teamworker A Teamworker is the greasy oil between the cogs that keeps the team running. They are good listeners and diplomats, talented at smoothing over conflicts and helping parties understand each other. Teamworker 86% Completer Finisher 75% Monitor Evaluator 70% Implementer 69% Coordinator 67% Specialist 58% Resource Investigator 58% Shaper 44% Plant 42%

[onceamy]

Coordinator - 78%
Resource Investigator - 70%
Completer Finisher - 67%
Specialist - 67%
Shaper - 61%
Implementer - 56%
Monitor Evaluator - 53%
Teamworker - 53%
Plant - 47%

(There is no way in hell that I'm a completer/finisher as the third tier. But I am good at research, and analysis, so 1) and 2) are spot on, I feel. OI HAI Type A personality that may be sub-consciously after your job.)

[samvara]

*g* Training my potential replacements is totally part of my mission!

[onceamy]

*is a dutiful Samvara-borg*

[cal]

Heee, fun! I'm not sure how reliable it is, as for a few questions I didn't completely get what it was asking, plus I find it really hard to judge that kind of thing even vaguely objectively, so who knows. But fun! (Also, plant? As in, green leaves and sparkly flowers?)

Teamworker 97% Completer Finisher 83% Implementer 81% Specialist 67% Shaper 64% Monitor Evaluator 61% Resource Investigator 56% Plant 50% Coordinator 42%

[samvara]

There's a good list on wikipedia - mostly you are awesome!

Listener, diplomat, person who maintains relationships, person who takes positive action, person who cares about details. All deeply valuable things to bring to the team.

[sidra]

What in the world is a *Plant*? Something that grows? Or someone that's a spy? :)

You Scored as Completer Finisher The Completer Finisher is a perfectionist. You can be trusted to have reliably checked the details over. The Completer Finisher has a strong inward sense of the need for accuracy. Completer Finisher 75% Monitor Evaluator 70% Plant 64% Specialist 59% Implementer 56% Teamworker 55% Shaper 36% Resource Investigator 36% Coordinator 36%

[samvara]

Plant: Plants are creative, unorthodox and a generator of ideas. If an innovative solution to a problem is needed, a Plant is a good person to ask. A good plant will be bright and free-thinking. Plants can tend to ignore incidentals and refrain from getting bogged down in detail. The Plant bears a strong resemblance to the popular caricature of the absentminded professor-inventor, and often has a hard time communicating ideas to others.

That's really cool combination - lots of methodical, logical perfectionism geared towards getting the job done *right*' being rounded off by the creativity to find solutions.