Fighting and Making up
Project Managers and Sponsors
Tuckman Ladder
Team Performance Domain
Organizational Theories
Hodgepodge
100

Focusing on points of agreement and downplaying areas of disagreement.  "Lose/Win"

What is smooth/accommodate?

100

In this approach, the project manager is responsible for planning, executing, and controlling project work; for assigning work and directing the project team; and for being the bridge between the team and the sponsor. 

What is predictive project development approach?

100

Team reaches their peak effectiveness and efficiency.

What is performing?

100

Review of project specifics

Convey team values

Explanation of team member's roles and assigned tasks

Build relationship

What is onboarding team members?

100

Identify three types of universally applicable motivators and observed that individuals tend to have a dominant motivator. 

What is McClelland's Three Needs?

100

This power stems from the a manager's demands for compliance with directives and willingness to punish noncompliance. 

What is Coercive power?

200

Highly functional approach to problem solving that goes through steps to ensure the causes are fully understood, multiple perspectives.

What is Plan, Do, Check, Act?

200

Leadership

Delegating responsibility

Assigning activities to specific functional responsibilities for clear personnel transitions

Keeping live documentation up-to-date

What Project Management is?

200

The team is curious about the project but not sold on it yet; trust levels are low.   

What is forming?

200

Expectations regarding acceptable behavior by project team members.

What are ground rules?

200

Managers believe people like being directed and are not inherently problem solvers.  Results require carrot-and-stick.

What is Theory X?


200

Negotiating from a viewpoint of collaboration or problem solving can generate the most lasting solutions with the fewest long-term side effects on relationships. 

What is principled negotiation?

300

This type of management involves:

Defining expectation for performance

Identifying gaps in performance and causes for poor performance

Creating a performance improvement plan

What is Performance Management?


300

The practice of leading the team by focusing on understanding and addressing the needs and development of team members in order to enable the highest possible team performance.

What is servant leadership?

300

Project team may challenge the project manager's leadership.

What is storming?


300

Features seven steps that first focus on the creation of the project team and then shifts to focus on sustainability and performance. 

What is Drexler/Sibbet team performance model? 

300

Describes a situation in which individuals are motivated due to the presence of a higher calling, their self-realization, or their value. 

What is Maslow's Theory Z?

300

Plan, Bargain, Analyze.

What is Negotiation phases?

400

A focused session that brings key cross-functional stakeholders together to define product requirements.

What is Facilitated workshop?

400

Prioritizes the work, based on a business analysis, and provides feedback to the team. 

What is product owner?

400

Team members complete deliverables, compile lessons learned from the project.

What is adjourning?

400

Meeting agenda are highly formatted and only the meeting leader, the scrum master, and team members are allowed to speak. 

What is Agile meeting philosophy?

400

Individuals are better motivated over the long term, and with regard to complicated and challenging work.  

What is Pink's Intrinsic vs Extrinsic Motivation?

400

The ability to reflect on one's experiences in a continuous and critical fashion in order to apply the appropriate knowledge and experience within a specific context. 

What is reflective thinking?

500

Collaborative tools for gathering data and making decisions.

What is observation, interviews, questionnaires and surveys, Expert judgment, focus groups, facilitated workshops, Delphi Technique, and brainstorming

500

Examples include: Executive leadership, Department heads, Investors, Philanthropists, Internal project office. 

What is a project sponsor? 

500

Team members have learned to place the needs of the team above their own preference.

What is norming?

500
A means of receiving information without direct communication by overhearing and through nonverbal cues.

What is Osmotic communication?

500

Generally interpreted as encouraging project managers to set goals that can be achieved with reasonable effort and offer rewards that have value to team memebers.

What is Expectancy Theory?

500

Can help individuals adapt coaching and leadership styles to support specific individuals. 

What is OSCAR model?

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