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1. Which of the ten roles (task/social/boundary spanning roles) did you see people playing in your team? What role did YOU most play? (See Figure 9.7, p. 217, in Chapter 9 of your book). I saw people mostly facilitating the task roles in our group. We didn’t have a lot of the things from other categories. I personally saw myself facilitating the contractor role for this activity. I made an effort to organize the details of the case, and made a timeline of everything that happened. I believe I facilitated that role for the exercise. 2. Which roles were/would have been most helpful to your team’s success in solving the mystery (for example, in discovering that your sheets were different)? Well a communicator role would’ve been much better. That would have helped our team figure out that there was a difference in the documents. Additionally a calibrator role would’ve really helped our group to stay focused and generate more group discussion. We needed a lot more people to facilitate those roles rather than relying on mostly an individual attempt from everyone in our group. Our group did not have really any of these factors to solve the case. 3. What stage of development do you think your group is in? Why do you say that? In my opinion we are stuck in the performing stage. We get stuff done, but the quality of our work isn’t the greatest. We need to pay more attention to how we do it and the quality of the work applied to the issue or problem. Overall we can communicate semi-effectively but we need to better assess how to get something done and the quality. This will be very important for our team paper. In conclusion, I believe we are stuck in performing stage. From our past performance and the grades we have received thus far, that is why I conclude or think this way.