Building a Team Is Not Work of Fitting Roles to People
When thinking about how to build a team, with only the viewpoint of who is good at what, division can become biased. There are people who advance, but no one who fixes things in place. There are people who think, but no one who decides. Such a bias can be read not as a problem of individual ability, but as a problem of combinations of qualities in how things are carried forward.
The pillar of this article is the judgment of deciding division of roles. We use the qualities of the signs as a clue for seeing bias in roles within a team. Separately from discussion of one-to-one combinations of a boss and a subordinate, it is read as the composition of the team as a whole.
The Work within a Team Borne by the Four Qualities
The fire quality is Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius. It bears the work of starting, deciding, and moving forward. Power comes out in the launching of a team and in scenes of deciding policy. On the other hand, if only the fire quality gathers, there is much talk of starting, but the work of fixing things in place can be put off.
The earth quality is Taurus, Virgo, and Capricorn. It bears the work of fixing procedures in place, checking by numbers, and making a form for continuing. If the earth quality is insufficient, plans are made but the arrangements for execution become vague. If it leans to the earth quality alone, response to change can become slow.
The air quality is Gemini, Libra, and Aquarius. It bears the work of gathering information, coordinating, and connecting the whole. Power comes out in contact between a team and the outside, and in coordination between departments. If only the air quality gathers, examination advances but decisions can be delayed.
The water quality is Cancer, Scorpio, and Pisces. It bears the work of reading the state of a place, taking in individual circumstances, and supporting. It is easy to notice changes in members, but on the other hand, if it leans to the water quality alone, the standards for deciding can become swept along by the atmosphere of the place.
What is important is not which quality is superior. It is looking at in what proportion the four kinds of work are placed within the team.
What to Decide First in Division of Roles Is the Role That Decides and the Role That Fixes in Place
When deciding division, there are two roles it is good to fix first. One is the role that decides. When examination drags on, you decide who will judge and move things forward. The other is the role that fixes in place. It is the role that brings what has been decided down into the form of procedures and deadlines.
In a team where these two are not decided, burden concentrates on the coordination role. Coordination is important work, but if the coordination role bears both deciding and fixing in place as well, judgment gathers too much on one person. Placing roles divided is the first step of division.
For example, if building a new assignment team, a division where the role that decides policy and the role that fixes procedures in place are placed on different people, and the coordination role is in a form connecting those two, corresponds to this. This is the concrete work example placed in this article.
Bias in Qualities Is Not Fixed Only by Swapping People
When you notice a bias in a team's qualities, there is no need to try to fix it immediately by swapping people. This is because bias can often be supplemented by how roles are placed. If the work of fixing in place is weak, place a regular meeting for checking. If the work of deciding is weak, fix in advance the deadline for a decision and the person who decides. A form of supplementing by system is a realistic way of proceeding.
Conversely, in a scene of adding a new person, a viewpoint of choosing a person who has work that the current team lacks, not only height of ability, is useful. Rather than layering people of the same quality, a combination that supplements what is lacking is more stable as a team as a whole.
Do Not End Building after Deciding It Once
What form fits a team's composition changes depending on the stage of work. In a launching period, the work of fire and air tends to become the center, and in a settling period, the work of earth and water becomes heavier. Reviewing division at a time when the stage changes is part of the judgment of building.
A reading by the qualities of the signs is not for pinning members down. Please use it as a clue for putting bias in a team's work into words and deciding division anew. If bias can be put into words, it can be handled as a problem of roles, without holding it in as a problem of people.