If you have experience in working within NGO or running it, then we are quite confident that you know that success of that organization is not a one-man show. Skilled, wise and knowledgeful person on the top of organization are wishful situation. However, work of civil society organizations is about attracting people who share the same vision about the world and walking together toward it. Therefore, that person needs as well to be a good leader.
Need to be the captain of the ship. But no matter of situation, that captain need to have its crew.
Before we go into how to take best out of each of the “crew members”, we need to take a look what type of people we should have in our organizations. Of course, this part depends from organization to organization, from its size, resources, intentions, work description, etc.
Each team has different team members. Understanding roles each member has within a team, their competences and skills, will help you and others on board to better work together. Also, going through the tasks you need to fulfil, following theory can help you define which profiles of people you should search for or invest in.
Having said that, approach we consider here is focusing on individual person. By making each individual better, we will make our organizations and our work better. This relies to everyone in our organizations, including us. If we want to have good employees, then we have to be good leaders.
Synergy of the team comes from understanding and appreciating!
One of the most common division of roles within one team is that of Meredith Belbin . He made 9 roles within a team separated into 3 groups:
Action oriented roles
People oriented roles
Thinking oriented roles
As you can see, each of these roles have its strength and its weaknesses.
Think about your team and your strategy which you have designed.
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Which of these roles you already have in the team?
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What roles do you need to execute your strategy?
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Whose capacities you should focus on or build up?
Having in mind new tendencies in work environment and user needs and behaviour, there are also some more modern role divisions, like one on the:
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Team manager/leader – person in charge for taking best out of the team
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Person in charge for productivity
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Creative and innovative thinking person
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