Subteam Leader Responsibilities
Subteam leaders foster a collaborative learning environment within their project team to maximize the growth of each of the team members. Subteam leaders:
- ensure that all team members have well defined tasks (every week) and appropriate resources to successfully complete those tasks
- foster peer-based learning within their team
- seek out expert advisers to maximize the team's efficiency
- identify impediments to progress and take active steps to address those impediments
- foster a positive collaborative environment that is a prerequisite for a high performing team
- maintain regular electronic communication with team members as well as face-to-face meetings
- guide weekly reflective discussions on the team interaction effectiveness to foster continual improvement
- maintain high standards and high expectations
- hold team members accountable to meet their commitments to the team
- check for comprehension and take appropriate steps to guide growth of the team members
- insist that expert team members empower novice members (see Novice-expert continuum)