Responsibility of Team members

Role and Responsibilities of Individual Member

• Team member is selected by the leader, sponsor, or quality council (or) is a member of a natural work team.
• He should actively, participate in meetings and shares knowledge, expertise, ideas and information.
• He should respect others’ contribution.
• He should listen carefully and ask questions.
• He should be enthusiastic.
• He should work for consensus on decisions.
• He should be committed to team objectives.
• He should carry out assignments between meetings such as collecting data, observing processes, charting data and writing reports.

Role and Responsibilities of Team leader

A team leader is selected by the quality council, sponsor or the team itself.

• Team leader ensures smooth and effective operations of the team.
• He ensures that all members participate during the meetings and he prevents members from dominating the proceedings unnecessarily.
• He serves as a mediator between the team and the Quality Council.
• He implements the changes recommended by the team.
• He prepares the agenda of all meetings and ensure necessary resources are available for the meeting.
• Team leader ensures that team decisions are taken by consensus rather than unilaterally.

Role and Responsibilities of Facilitator

• Facilitator is not a member of the team. Yet his role in the team is indispensable.
• Facilitator supports the leader for facilitating the team during initial stages of the team.
• He focuses on team process.
• He acts as resource to the team
• He provides feed back to the team concerning the effectiveness of the team process.

Role and Responsibilities of Team Recorder

• Team recorder is selected by the team leader or by the team and may be rotated on a periodic basis.
• He documents the main ideas of the team’s discussion.
• He presents the documents for the team to review during the meeting and distribute them as ‘minutes of the meeting ‘afterwards.
• He participates as a team member.

Role and Responsibilities of Time keeper

• Time keeper is selected by the leader or by the team and may be rotated on a periodic basis.
• He monitors the time to maintain the schedule as per agenda.
• He participates as a team member.