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Re: Who is in charge of your team?

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Originally Posted by unapiedra
With in charge I mean who is the leader, not what is the leader called but who is it.

Who, in your team, makes the decisions (not who signes them off but really decides) and who keeps your team together as a team.

I am not asking about the specific tasks just the overall, like deciding when meetings are, what is being bought or who does what.
The main person is a teacher, who is also the one who founded the team, but some decisions have been and sometimes are made by others or by a team vote depending on the issue.

Now, for example, if one of the mentors on the mechanical team realizes we need a tool, off the shelf part or base stock to make or assemble something then they will locate and order it if it's inexpensive and charge it to the team's account. If it's major then it's brought up before the team.


Now here's where it may get interesting. If you ask me the same question again in a few weeks/month I may have a different answer. The teacher is retiring at the end of this month which will leave us without a main person. We are currently in the process of making decisions and seeing if we can locate a "new" main person on our team. The teacher will still be involved with the team but not as much as they currently are.
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