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Re: What is a Team Captain/Leader's Role?
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Originally Posted by davidthefat
What is a Team Captain/Leader's Role? Is it their role to make design decisions regarding the robot? Is it their role to veto a general consensus regarding the robot? Is it their role to unify the team under one goal? Is it their job to pick up the slack of certain groups? What is their role? I think our leadership structure needs a re haul. I think our current structure allows for corruption and dictatorship. I do not believe that one person (even a mentor) should have the power to veto anything he wishes.
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Beyond bland platitudes about leaders leading, managers managing, captains capt'ing???  , etc. the leader's/captain's role is to do whatever the authority(s) associated with the team assigns to that role.
Notice that the authority might be the team members, or it might be a charter issued by a school or 501(c)3, or it might be a mentor(s), or it might not be defined. PS: Reality and what is on paper are often two different beasts.
Your question is similar to asking "What color should a Team captain's hat be? The answer is "It depends."
To answer the question within the question: Don't look in this thread for allies or ammo to use in a dispute within your current team organization. Given the way you framed the intial question, those answers won't be found here.
Blake
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Last edited by gblake : 15-03-2011 at 08:55.
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