This activity is important because employees take on different roles in team situations, and these roles can have a strong impact on team effectiveness. Managers should be aware of what roles help or hurt teams, depending on the team task, and how they may facilitate positive team processes.

The goal of this exercise is to demonstrate your understanding of team roles by matching employee quotes to some of these types of roles.

Read each employee statement and match it with the correct type of team role.

Team Task Role: Initiator$-$Contributor

Team Task Role: Devil$$s Advocate

Individualistic Role: Recognition Seeker

Team Task Role: Orienter

Team$-$Building Role: Standard Setter

Team$-$Building Role: Gatekeeper$-$Expediter

Individualistic Role: Aggressor

Match each of the options above to the items below.

$$I have an idea!$$

$$Let$$s wrap up this part of the discussion and move to the next item on the agenda.$$

$$Everyone is moving forward on this project without considering the time it will take. I think there may be real problems if we don$$t back up and analyze.$$

$$John$,$ what do you think about the idea? I want to make sure to know your thoughts because you are the expert in this market.$$

$$Today$,$ we should agree to complete one item on our advertising plan and set two goals related to our final report.$$

$$Look$,$ Ken. You haven$$t brought a single new idea to our group, so think about that when you want to leave early.$$

$$Can we put in the minutes that I had the best idea today? I want to make sure we set a high standard for our team and I seem to be setting it$.$