Common Team Roles

Being part of a team can offer positive benefits, both personally and professionally. Benefits that range from fostering innovation, increased efficiency, diversification, and accountability. Everyone brings valuable experience and has a specific role they fulfill to the table.

This micro course, “Common Team Roles” identifies the nine most common roles on teams as well as the benefits and limitations of each. You will learn what team roles are and why they are valuable planning tools to maximize your team’s effectiveness. Finally, you will compare action-oriented roles, versus people-oriented roles, versus thought-oriented roles and when to utilize each.