GROUP BUILDING AND MAINTENANCE ROLES

 Encourager

 Praises, agrees with and accepts

 Harmonizer

 Mediates differences

 Compromisers

 Offers compromise

 Gate-keeper and expediter

 Keeps communication open

 Standard setter or ego ideal

 Expresses standards for the group

 Follower

 Goes along with the group

 OBSERVER

 Keeps records of group process

Source: Kenneth Benne, Human Relations in Curriculum Change

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