CSI: Normal Team Exercise

1.  During the CSI: Normal my group members and I took on many of the roles from the Team Role Typology. Some of the roles each of us took on at some point or another include contributor, critic, communicator and cooperator. Once our team began to share the information that we gathered for the case reports, we all took on the roles of communicator and cooperator by sharing any idea we had about the case and sharing all the facts that we each gathered from the case reports with each other. We each also took on the role of contributor by sharing what we thought were possible solutions to the case and the role critic when we information that would dismiss someone else’s idea or theory.
2.  Even though each of us eventually took on the role of communicator, it took us longer than it should have to realize that our case reports had different information in them, so if we had taken on the roles of communicators and coordinators right from the start, we would have had a better chance of picking up on the subtle differences of our reports quicker.
3. I think our group is in the performing stage of development because we are able to work together and agree on key issues. We also have very clear goals as a group that we intend to achieve and are able to delegate out tasks to each other to work towards achieving our goals. Our group also has a clear vision and purpose, which is to complete our in-class group tasks and to complete all of our projects for the semester.

--Michael Lorimer