Southwestern College Professional Studies
Memorandum

DATE: April 21, 2013
TO: Leah Hartman
FROM: Team 1
SUBJECT: Team Strategy and Roles

This memorandum provides you with Team 1 members’ primary and secondary roles. It will provide you with an explanation of why the roles were chosen. The memorandum will inform you of each team members’ tasks for completing the Talent Map/Learning Styles Analysis Power Point Presentation. Lastly it will tell you how the team came to this decision.

Primary and Secondary Roles
The team has four members and six roles. Each member has one primary role, one secondary role, and then the team collectively took on two roles. Brayden is primary team leader while team lead is Christopher’s secondary role. Gala and Christie alternate primary and secondary role of recorder and editor. Christopher is the team’s primary analyst with Brayden serving as the secondary analyst. All the members of the team contribute to managing and developing the project.

How Roles Were Chosen
Roles were chosen off of reading the strengths of each member and trying to best fill each one. Brayden’s primary role as team leader ties in with his signature theme of communication because it is needed to lead a team to success. His secondary role of analyst also ties into his communication theme because he will need it to give and receive information from his teammates. Gala’s primary role as recorder ties into her signature themes that fall in the executing category because she is committed to her team and ensuring all of their collaborations are documented punctually. Her secondary role as editor specifically ties into belief because what she lack in editing skills she make up for in a value system that strives to do better and give her best effort not only for herself but for the team. Christopher’s primary role is analyst and his analytical signature theme made him the best candidate for the position. His secondary role as a team leader is most influenced by my discipline theme because it enables him to have a rigid and definite plan that will surely get accomplished by assigning tasks or jobs to do. Christie’s primary role is editor; consistency is one of her signature themes that will help the team provide a meaningful project because people function to their best ability when there is consistency. Her secondary role is recorder; this is where the adaptability theme ties in because she can help the team in other areas when needed. She can be flexible to meet the needs of her team members as well as the project.

Team Members’ Tasks
First Christopher initiated communication amongst the team, and the team collaborated on how to get the ball rolling. Christie filled out the talent map. Brayden established the final roles chart. Gala gathered information from team member for the first assignment. For the analysis questions team members devised a plan to answer the question in a timely manner. Once they are answered Gala and Christie will record and edit the information with the teams help to finally have a power point presentation for submission.

Team’s Decision
The team collaborated to come up with a plan for an effective and productive execution. With different time zones, work schedules, and other commitments, communication was key to finding out each team members’ strengths and utilizing them accordingly.

Conclusion
The team virtually came together and shared information from what has been learned. The team discovered roles by utilizing strengths, talents, and skills. Tasks were established and currently being accomplished, more over the team is satisfied with the decisions made. Therefore, the bottom line is Team 1 has come up with team member roles and a strategy to successfully complete this team project.