Like we have management style or type of managers, can we have the define the team member based on the behaviour or accepting the challenges or team player may be more fomal definition.
It would help to manage the team. Saving Changes...
Sort By:
Deepesh RammoorthyICT Project Manager ( PMP®AgilePM®Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM®))| Australian Red Cross Blood ServiceTarneit, Vic, Australia
Some assessments like Myers Briggs may help determine the type of the team member you are dealing with . Also important are organization theories like Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, Herzberg's Hygiene theory, McClelland theory, Vroom theory et al . If you can find out what motivates a team member, then you can give them work that will enable them to realize their full potential. Saving Changes...
It's not always possible to get assessments of everyone on your team(s) and some of the most difficult people to work with are not always agreeable to that.
This conversation came up recently at work and 2 PMs showed me a "Spectrum of Helpfulness" they had drawn on their white board. On the positive end, was a functional manager here with who is a joy to work with and always tries to help provide assistance to enable the PMs to be as successful as possible. On the negative and is another functional manager her who starts immediately berating us for bothering them before we even have a chance to state why we're calling. Everyone else falls somewhere within that spectrum.
Probably not directly useful, but do know that people are coming up with their own home-grown ways to classify people they work with in order to personalize their "working together strategies". Saving Changes...
Tamer Zeyad SadiqAssistant Cost Manager| Turner & TownsendRiyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia
There are formats of matrix table to classify the team members and their roles!!! Saving Changes...
Yassine BelkouraProgram coordinator| Douja Promotion Groupe AddohaMohammedia, Outside U.S./Canada, Morocco
Ashutosh, does your team have a team charter?
If not, try to develop one. It sets the ground rules of « playing » and unifys the overall behaviour. Then, I believe that each team member (player) is unique and you have to find the best approach to manage each one. Saving Changes...
