Team Leadership, Facilitation & Participation
Influencing others to achieve a goal.
What is team leadership?
A plan that summarizes the activities that have been agreed upon to assure project success.
What is an action plan?
Everybody gets a chance to speak, you arrive at a high-quality decision that’s supported by the team, and there’s effective implementation due to a sense of ownership and commitment.
What is the consensus method?
Capture key decisions and discussion items.
What are team meeting minutes?
Small groups are better than larger groups.
What is optimal team size?
Creative, dependable, organized, outgoing, sensitive, self-assured and encouraging.
What are the traits of an effective team leader?
A creativity tool for generating ideas and/or possible solutons?
What is brainstorming?
Following the popular opinions and expectations of others, even if you do not share them.
What is the band-wagon effect?
Identify topics of discussion, who is addressing that topic and the length of time allocated.
What is a meeting agenda?
A group of people who discuss topics of interest to the whole organization.
What is a committee?
A team of people who participate actively, are cohesive, seek information and recognize others.
What is a high-performing team?
The value of a set of data that is usually referred to as the "average".
What is the mean?
When a person or group develops a sense of invulnerability.
What is the superman complex?
Advance preparation, early arrival, constructive participation, common courtesy and follow-through.
What is effective meeting participation?
To enable others to think, behave, act, and make decisions with independence.
What is empowerment?
Forming, storming, norming, performing, transforming and adjourning.
What are the stages of group development?
A clear concise description of the problem and the effect you can expect from the solution.
What is a problem statement?
Cohesive groups where members minimize conflict and support consensus without critical thought.
What is group think?
Start with the objective, identify key participants, distribute an agenda and related materials in advance and have an appropriate setting.
What is meeting planning?
The difference in knowledge that appears when one person or group has access to information that another person or group does not.
What is a knowledge gap?
Activities designed to improve a team's performance.
What is team building?
A method of analyzing data that allows you to study how changing one of more of the input variables would affect the output.
What is a what-if analysis?
Pooling opinions, listening effectively, discussing ideas and difference and coming to an agreement that everyone "can live with".
What are key elements of coming to group concensus?
Sharing information, solving problems, planning, providing updates and making decisions.
What is the role/purpose of a meeting?
Conditioning that encourages you to accept the beliefs, positions and values of your social group.
What is social conditioning?