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Schools Fundraisers: Understanding Team Roles

Schools fundraisers should first know the importance of having a team and understanding the team’s individual roles in an organization. By understanding, you can have a better outlook of what to expect from the team and how to treat them based on their personalities and attitudes towards work. 

Everyone in the team is unique and has individuality and character that differentiates them from others. This is normal and should be understood as this shows how each one would react in work and how well they would interact with the team as a separate individual. Also, this will determine the strengths of the individual and will also help the organization know which appropriate position the member will fit in based on his personality and attitude. Sometimes work only becomes effective based on the personality of the person. For example, a person who is very keen with rules and procedures and like the complications of numbers and also computes everything the person has spent can have a future as an accountant. It really depends on someone’s behavior or attitude towards life and work. 

There are mainly four types of team role; the talker, the feeler, the doer, and the thinker. The first one is the talker or associated with the peacocks. The talker in the team likes to have the spotlight. This person loves having the attention of people. Most of the time, he/she initiates the talk, and is very confident, and very spontaneous. This type of person is very talkative as he/ she really expresses ideas in front of the crowd. Whatever transpires in the team, the talker really has a say so he/ she talks first before listening. Next type is the feeler or associated with a dove. The feeler is a friend to everyone. In work, it is important to him/ her that he/ she is a friend to everyone thus making the feeler dependable, supportive and loyal. This type of person will listen to people before talking. The feeler is a peace loving person and will prioritize people before tasks. Then there comes the doer or the eagle. The doer likes to be the boss. As the boss, he/ she is very determined with work and very competitive too. When it comes to work, he/ she is very disciplined and productive. From the name itself, “doer”, he/ she will do everything for the organization. This person is associated as the effective worker as he/ she will work double time for the organization. Then, the thinker or the owl follows. He/ she want to be always right. 

A thinker is very systematic and analytical. Sometimes, the thinker overdoes thinking because he/ she are very perfectionist. In everything the thinker does, he/ she makes sure that all is done the right way and efficiently too. This attitude makes the thinker more of an introvert because of being too much restrained and conservative. The people who are thinkers are the quality controllers of the organization as they make sure everything is done by the rules. So to capsulate everything, team roles are as important as knowing the members who will run your organization.