A group member who scans the environment to allow or present information from flowing into and out of the group.
What is a boundary spanner?
100
In a word, this is what diversity equals.
What is difference?
100
The use of imagination, intuition, hunches, insight, and fantasy to devise unusual or innovative solutions.
What is creativity/creative thinking?
100
Implies influence.
What is leadership?
200
An informed lens of understanding for better seeing and living in the world we occupy together."
What is a theory? (According to Dr. J)
200
When two or more people have different meanings for a word but do not realize it.
What is bypassing?
200
A system of beliefs, values, and symbols shared by an identifiable group of people.
What is culture?
200
Diversity, discussion rules, climate, and environment.
What is the four elements that effect creative thinking in a group?
200
Comes from someone's perceived ability to give others what they want and value.
What is reward power?
300
Something that consists of elements that function interdependently.
What is a system?
300
This concept suggests that groups can start out at very different places but end up at the same place (literally, "equal ends").
What is equifinality?
300
A culture in which the words used convey more meaning than the situation or context.
What is a low-context culture?
300
A procedure designed to tap into members' creativity by asking them to generate as many ideas as possible without evaluation - that doesn't actually work that well.
What is brainstorming?
300
An extreme form of punishment involving threats or force to make a member comply.
What is coercion?
400
The theory that - at least to some extent - our view and understanding of the world around is not fixed, but rather shaped and effected by our interactions with other people in society.
What is social constructionism?
400
To paraphrase (put in your own words) what you think the other person meant.
What is a good test for active listening?
400
The surgeon who performed surgery on the son in my riddle.
What is his mom?
400
Similar to brainstorming, a technique that adds a healthy level of critical reflection and constructive thinking.
What is plussing?
400
The idea that features of the situation determine appropriate leadership behavior.
What is contingency/situational leadership?
500
An organizational emphasis placed upon one particular understanding of diversity, which - in turn - silences the opportunity for additional or alternative expressions of difference.
What is the diversity paradox?
500
The study of how people use space to communicate.
What is proxemics?
500
Individuals born from 1982 to 1997; influenced by computers and the information/digital revolution.
What is the Net Generation?
500
The reality of where good ideas come from, as opposed to oversimplified "Aha moments."
What is slow hunches?
500
The idea that each group member can and should provide leadership services to a group.