Type of Group Roles

There are two kinds of types of ways a member can contribute: task and personal roles. Task roles are task set for individuals that have to do with content. An example of a task roles is an information giver. An information giver offers facts about the subject the group is working on. an administrator is also a task role. A administrator makes sure that everyone stays on track, and makes sure the group accomplished the task on time. These people make sure that the work gets done on time, and all of the information is important and precise. Personal roles are task set for individuals to help the relationship between group members. These people make try to get everyone to get a long, so the group project will be completed on time. An example of a personal role is a harmonizer. A harmonizer is someone that tries to clear the tension between group members from the tension that they might have. A gatekeeper also is a personal task. A gatekeeper tries to keep everyone involved in group decisions. For the most part everyone in the group has both a person and a task role. Usually an individuals role changes in every group, because everyone is different. When I am in a group I usually try to take on both task and personal roles. I usually try to be the information giver and the gatekeeper.