Team Building
Team members are arguing, resisting collaboration, and questioning leadership.
Storming
A flight commander trusts the team to make all decisions independently and provides little guidance or feedback. Which leadership style is being demonstrated?
Laissez-faire
An officer receives information that supports her plan while ignoring reports that contradict it. Which cognitive bias is she demonstrating?
Confirmation Bias
A commander insists on using only information that supports her original plan despite multiple reports providing it ineffective. What is the BEST leadership response?
Reevaluate the evidence and adjust the plan based on facts
Any officer dating an enlisted member assigned to the same unit. Why is this prohibited?
It may create favoritism and undermine good order and discipline.
A newly formed team is unsure of expectations and looks to the leader for direction. The leader should primarily act as:
Director
A squadron commander inspires Airmen to embrace a new mission by connecting their work to a greater purpose and encouraging innovation. Which leadership style is being used?
During a briefing, a flight commander says, "This plan is bad because everyone knows it won't work." This statement is best classified as:
Opinion
Two Squadrons must divide limited aircraft maintenance resources. Each wants to preserve a long-term working relationships accomplishing the mission. Which negotiation approach is BEST?
Integrative
An officer refused to alter data to improve inspection results despite pressure from leadership. Which core value is most demonstrated?
Integrity First
What are the four stages of team development?
Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing
A supervisor rewards Airment for meeting performance standards and corrects deficiencies when standards are not met.
Transactional Leadership
A passive and uncritical, lacking in initiative and sense of responsibility, complies with order given, reactive, do what they're told and nothing more
Sheep
A supervisor immediately assumes a high-performing Airman will excel at every task without additional evaluation. This is an example of:
Halo Effect
An Airman privately disagrees with the commander, respectfully presents an alternative recommendation, and fully supports the final decision.
Effective followership
The leader's primary role during the storming stage is:
Coach
A newly formed team has never worked together before. Members are unsure of expectations and roles. What is the leader's BEST action?
Clearly establish expectations and provide direction
Active participants that think critically and are high performing, independent, proactive/think ahead, works well with others, reflect on goals of the organization, brings concers to leaders.
Effective followers
An officer receives a complaint from a subordinate involving unlawful discrimination. According to EO principles, the preferred first method of resolution is:
An Airman constantly criticizes leadership but offers no solutions and participates minimally. This followership style is:
Alienated
During the Norming stage, the leader primarily functions as:
Collaborator
Your team is arguing over responsibilities and resisting collaboration. What leadership role should you assume?
Coach
Do no fully commit to work or group goals; shape shifters that can use the traits of any of the followership styles, allowing them to get by from situation to situation, qualities of each other type of follower, does just enough to get by, minimize interpersonal and intellectual risk
Survivors
During planning, a leader asks: "What assumptions am I making, and are they valid?" Which element of reasoning is being applied?
Assumption
An officer volunteers for a difficult deployment because the mission requires it, despite personal inconvenience. Which virtue is BEST represented?
Duty