Facilitator-Faculty
Facilitators are "outsiders" to the team, and maintain a neutral position. One of their most important jobs arising from this neutrality is to observe the team's progress, evaluating how the team functions, and use these observations to help the team improve its process (how members interact both inside and outside of meetings). The faculty member will perform this role in the classroom.
- Focuses on the team's process more than its product; is concern more with how decisions are made than what decisions are reached
- Evaluates team task and process performance
- Continually develops personal skills in facilitating, group processes, and planning. Learns a variety of techniques to control digressive, difficult, or dominating participants, to encourage reluctant participants, and to resolve conflict among participants. Learns when and how to employ these interventions and how to teach such skills to team members
- Performs traditional faculty functions