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RESOURCE
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Performance Levels for Performing in a Team
Level 5
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Team Catalysts
1.
Stimulate team unity by advancing ideas of others and filling in gaps of team performance.
2.
Leverage their roles to enhance others’ roles and work faithfully to engender trust.
3.
Mediate consensus by actively and sensitively soliciting contributions from all team members.
4.
Facilitate conflict management for both individual and group attainment of common goals.
5.
Always ensure critical elements are vividly documented for continuous reflection and assessment and
inspire others to do the same.
Level 4
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Team Players
1.
Support team unity by valuing others’ ideas through rephrasing and improving others’ performance.
2. Use their roles effectively with others and can be trusted to contribute more than their fair share.
3. Appropriately contribute to the decision-making process.
4. Alter personal behavior to focus on the use of conflict to attain common goals.
5. Ensure all elements of the process and outcomes are frequently documented for use in assessment
and reflection.
Level 3
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Contributors
1.
Add to team unity by listening well, sharing ideas, and assisting in producing outcomes.
2. Accept their roles and responsibilities and are generally reliable for contributions to the team.
3. Contribute to decisions and value the input of others.
4. Appreciate the positive potential of conflict but make limited use of it in attaining common goals.
5. Regularly document some elements of the process and outcomes for use in assessment and reflection.
Level 2
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Group Members
1.
Make a modest impact on team unity by sharing few ideas and doing only what is assigned.
2. Fulfill basic roles’ responsibilities and can be relied on with supervision.
3. Make contributions to decisions but sometimes insensitively or inappropriately.
4. Recognize existing conflicts but contribute little to the use of conflicts to attain common goals.
5. Document own work and provide reflection when prompted.
Level 1
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Individualists
1.
Weaken team unity by ignoring others’ ideas and limiting working with others.
2. Assume role without regard to others and are seldom reliable.
3. Make contributions when solicited without valuing the contributions of others.
4. Avoid or ignore all conflict, which could derail effort toward attaining the common goal.
5. Occasionally document own work and rarely assess progress.