Editing Structuring Teams (section)

=== Interdependent Roles ===
Each member of the leadership team must have responsibility for their own piece of work that contributes to the team’s purpose. A functioning team will have a diversity of identities, experiences, and opinions to ensure that the most resources and perspectives possible are being brought to the table.

In an effective leadership team, '''no one works in a silo'''. Roles are truly interdependent when each person on the team needs the output of another team member’s work to complete their own.

For example, if a team’s purpose was to educate youth in your community about consent you might have an organizer as Teacher Liaison contacting teachers to book classroom sessions, another organizer as Facilitation Coordinator recruiting and training workshop presenters, and a third organizer as Curriculum Coordinator in charge of designing and refining the workshop content. The Teacher Liaison will be dependent on the Facilitation Coordinator to provide presenters to fill the workshops they book in schools. The Facilitation Coordinator will be dependent on the Curriculum Coordinator for lesson plans and other materials. The Curriculum Coordinator will be dependent on the Teacher Liaison and Curriculum Coordinator to get feedback from teachers and presenters on how to improve the workshop content. By designing roles that require the different members of the leadership team to work together, the team will be bounded and sustainable over the long term.