Collaboration
Team Role Exploration
Misunderstandings about roles cause conflict. This exercise clarifies responsibilities, expectations, and decision authority. Ambiguous roles create duplicated effort and turf wars. Clarity prevents those problems.
Duration
2 hours
Group Size
4-10
Category
Collaboration
Difficulty
Easy
- Define role responsibilities. - Identify role overlaps and gaps. - Establish decision-making authority. - Build shared understanding of team operations.
- Clear role definitions with responsibilities and boundaries. - Eliminated role overlaps and gaps. - Documented decision-making authority.
Surface Hidden Assumptions: People operate with unstated assumptions about roles. Make every "obviously" explicit. Revealed assumptions can be aligned. Overlap vs. Collaboration: Some overlap is intentional collaboration. Some is confusion. Distinguish healthy collaboration from problematic ambiguity. Gaps Are Common: You'll often discover nobody owns something important. Assign explicit ownership. I've seen teams struggle with this, so be patient. Decision Authority Matters Most: Unclear decision authority is the biggest source of conflict. Make decision authority explicit for common decisions.
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