Team Roles can help you understand your roles on a team, along with your team's makeup, imbalances, and what each individual role plays. Resourcers are networkers who go outside the team to bring in ideas or resources.
Overview
Resourcers are connectors that bring ideas, people, skills, and knowledge from outside the team or organization to the task at hand at just the right time and place.
Strengths
Outgoing
Enthusiastic, networker
Explores opportunities and ideas
Develops contacts
Strong communicator
Curious
Positioning
Resourcers are natural negotiators and are great at exploring new opportunities and developing contacts. They are best at finding out what is available and from whom. Resourcers are great at finding win-win solutions.
Represent your best options to explore and report back on ideas, developments, or resources outside their immediate group. Projects such as identifying the best vendors, forming new partnerships, or recruiting new talent are great opportunities for Resourcers
When the team is at risk of becoming isolated and inwardly focused, Resourcers can provide inside knowledge on the opposition and make sure that the team’s idea can carry to the world outside the team.
Development Opportunities
Put process in place to ensure you don't forget to follow-up on a lead - this could include reminders on your mobile device or a to-do list. Find what works best for you.
Could become overly optimistic about the impact of other people or opportunities but can lose interest once the initial enthusiasm has passed. Pair with a Coordinator or Driver to ensure good opportunities aren't wasted.
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