Law & Glover tell us that teams work best when they share a common purpose, when they have a sense of team-identification and when they have interconnecting and interdependent functions. When these three elements are present, the team is likely to be coherent and striving to reach a common goal. The team is unlikely to pull in different directions because the members share a common purpose.
The authors quote Belbin who says that people have an intuitive way of acting when working in a team. For a team to be successful, members need to complement each other and possess a range of skills, abilities and behaviours.
It was interesting to find my "type" in Belbin's Table of "Useful people to have in teams". I believe that I am part Resource investigator and part Team-worker. Looking through the table, I was able to identify the characteristics the other people in my current library team possess. Having a variety of these types in a team is a positive thing as we can each bring different strengths and interests, which in turn will (hopefully) make for an interesting patchwork of productivity.
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