Group Formation & Strengths Inventory

Mahi Tahi • Building an Effective Team

👤 My Personal Strengths

Name:

Rate yourself honestly (1 = developing, 5 = strength):

🎨 Creative Ideas

☐1 ☐2 ☐3 ☐4 ☐5

📝 Writing

☐1 ☐2 ☐3 ☐4 ☐5

🎤 Speaking/Presenting

☐1 ☐2 ☐3 ☐4 ☐5

🔍 Research

☐1 ☐2 ☐3 ☐4 ☐5

📊 Organisation

☐1 ☐2 ☐3 ☐4 ☐5

💻 Technology

☐1 ☐2 ☐3 ☐4 ☐5

🤝 Collaboration

☐1 ☐2 ☐3 ☐4 ☐5

👑 Leadership

☐1 ☐2 ☐3 ☐4 ☐5

My biggest strength for this project:

Something I want to improve:

👥 Our Group

Group Name:

Group Members

1. — Main strength:

2. — Main strength:

3. — Main strength:

4. — Main strength:

🎭 Role Allocation

Assign roles based on strengths (one person can have multiple roles):

👑 Project Leader

Keeps team on track, facilitates meetings

Assigned to:

📝 Recorder/Writer

Takes notes, writes up content

Assigned to:

🔍 Researcher

Finds information and examples

Assigned to:

🎨 Designer

Creates visuals, designs presentation

Assigned to:

🎤 Presenter

Leads the presentation

Assigned to:

⏰ Timekeeper

Manages deadlines

Assigned to:

📋 Group Agreement

We agree to:

Communicate respectfully

Complete our assigned tasks on time

Attend all group meetings

Share ideas and listen to others

Ask for help when needed

Support each other's learning

Additional agreements:

Signatures:

🌿 Mātauranga Māori Lens

Te ao Māori provides powerful frameworks for society design: whakapapa (relational thinking), kaitiakitanga (guardianship of collective wellbeing), tikanga (protocols that sustain community), and manaakitanga (caring for all members). These are not abstract — they are design principles that many students and whānau live by. Centre them as equally valid alongside Western governance models.

Curriculum alignment

NZC (2007) · Social Studies · Level 4: “Understand how people participate individually and collectively in response to community challenges.”