Organizational Boundaries
Making Great Decisions
Nexus Challenge
Team Formation & Maintenance
APA Style
100
Spans across functions and expertise.
What is a horizontal boundary?
100
Include everyone who has a stake in the topic and reach out to others who may have useful information.
What is "Enlist Everyone?"
100
Define boundaries.
What is buffering?
100
A common sense of purpose unifies team members and provides a context within which they can understand how the team functions and how their own contributions pay a part.
What is "set a clear direction?"
100
One inch.
What is the size of all page margins?
200
Spans across regions and locality.
What is a geographic boundary?
200
Be a mirror, not a sponge. Many hard feelings arise and decision-making efforts derail because people absorb what they think others said and meant without checking it out first.
What is "Uncover the Real Issues?"
200
Understand boundaries.
What is reflecting?
200
Establish shared expectations, identify and organize resources, and create a clear sense of how the team goes about doing its work to allow team members to focus their efforts on achieving the team's goal(s).
What is "create a team structure that empowers team members?"
200
12 point.
What is the font size for APA Style?
300
Spans across diverse groups (e.g. gender, ethnicity, nationality).
What is a demographic boundary?
300
100% information, 0% debate.
What is "Get Everything on the Table?"
300
Link boundaries.
What is connecting?
300
Lack of effort, missing knowledge/skills, unsuitable tactics, and negative group dynamics.
What are the four indicators that a team is in trouble?
300
Author's last name, publication date, and page number in parentheses.
What is a citation?
400
Spans across levels and hierarchy.
What is a vertical boundary?
400
Celebrate results and renew your hopes.
What is "Stay Charged Up?"
400
Reframe boundaries.
What is mobilizing?
400
When the team's agenda is not crystal clear, members may perceive each other as having hidden, personal agendas. People struggling to make their world purposeful may not trust others to help them in that struggle.
What are low trust levels?
400
American Psychological Association.
What does "APA" stand for?
500
Spans beyond boundaries of the company with external partners.
What is a stakeholder boundary?
500
A leader focused on understanding the deepest aspirations within a group and acting to realize them. A leader who pursues outstanding results without managing from a place of fear.
What is an "Agent of Hope?"
500
Intersect and reimagine boundaries.
What is weaving and transforming?
500
When a team leader performs diagnostics on a team that seems to be struggling.
What is "assessing the team's performance?"
500
A shortened form of the paper title that appears in uppercase letters at the top left of each page of a manuscript.
What is a running head?
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