Team Roles
These are activities focused on reaching team goals and staying organized
What are task activities?
This decision-making style allows a small group to make decisions on behalf of the team
What is minority rule?
This describes the shared creative efforts within a team
What is collective creativity?
This type of conflict involves feelings of anger and personality clashes.
What is emotional conflict?
This style is cooperative but unassertive, prioritizing harmony over conflict
What is accommodation?
These activities focus on ensuring the team is happy and works well together
What are maintenance activities?
This decision-making style uses a vote where the majority prevails.
What is majority rule?
A technique where ideas are freely generated without judgment
What is brainstorming?
This type of conflict focuses on disagreements over goals, policies, and resources
What is substantive conflict?
This style is uncooperative and assertive, often leading to win-lose outcomes.
What is competition?
The concept where every team member takes responsibility for the team's success
What is distributed leadership?
This process seeks a solution everyone can agree on
What is consensus decision-making?
This brainstorming principle allows for wild, unconventional ideas
What is freewheeling?
The term for conflict that guides people to achieve goals at manageable intensities.
What is functional conflict?
This style seeks moderate cooperation and assertiveness to find an acceptable compromise.
What is compromise?
A key characteristic of a good team leader, avoiding negativity and fostering cooperation.
What is setting a good example?
The phenomenon where cohesive teams lose the ability to evaluate decisions critically
What is groupthink?
The structured technique that organizes idea discussions and problem-solving
What is nominal group technique?
The result when conflict hinders a group from achieving its goals
What is dysfunctional conflict?
The conflict style that seeks to satisfy everyone’s concerns fully.
What is collaboration?
This type of leadership supports both task and maintenance activities equally
What is shared or distributed leadership?
This principle of consensus ensures no one compromises their values just to agree
What is staying true to your beliefs?
One of the norms that supports team creativity by encouraging open and accessible communication.
What is being free to communicate with everyone?
what is being helpful to others.
what is being empowered to make decisions
A common cause of conflict due to unclear expectations or poor communication.
What are unclear job expectations?
The conflict outcome where both sides lose, and the root causes are unresolved.
What is lose-lose conflict?