Role Certainty Creates Clear, Cascading Waterfalls Of Success

Role clarity is a prerequisite for effective team performance in general. However, leaders would need to do more than merely describe functions and duties to take a team from good to great.?

Each participant needs to have a clear grasp of their roles and responsibilities in achieving the shared purpose. Each contributor must also have a detailed understanding of the functions of all other team members and how the parts interconnect with each other.

When participants are aligned with objectives and roles, they are ready to respond - without hesitation - to any curveballs that might come their way.

Diligent role definition has a cascading effect.

This confidence, in turn, cultivates cooperation and promotes team cohesion. Cohesion is a state where members maintain bonds that link them to one another and the entire unit.?

Cohesive units don’t happen by chance – it takes skilled leadership and team persistence. A team that networks with a high degree of cohesion provide a free stream of information and build trust amongst participants, which increases collaboration, which, in turn, improves performance.

Research has shown that when a team perceives a task as requiring creativity and implicit or explicit permission to not go along with groupthink, its members are more likely to invest time and energy in collaboration.