Team Effectiveness
Tasks, wherein it is enough if just one member in the group knows the answer.
What are disjunctive tasks?
Control over activities that are needed by others to complete tasks
ALUMNI; DATA; MEMORANDUM; FRIENDS; OXEN
Odd one out is?
What is a Memorandum? (singular)
A shallow level of training wherein members receive information regarding the roles of the other members.
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What is a number that has all the numbers from 0-9?
What are some potential areas of communicator issues?
Ambiguous goals, organizational change, limited resources
What are some causes of organizational politics?
SAND; IRON; GASOLINE; COPPER; STEEL
the odd one is?
What is Gasoline?
Team members observe how other members perform their roles
What is Positional Modeling?
Five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it
What is short?
Agreeableness, conscientious, extraverted
What are successful team member traits?
Lack of clarity about who has what right.
What is jurisdictional ambiguity?
trout is an anagram of a word that means teacher
What is a tutor?
Team members take turns in each of the roles by carrying out the responsibilities of their teammates
What is positional rotation?
Your parents have six sons including you, and each son has one sister. How many people are in the family?
What is nine?
Highest information richness channels
What are video conferences and/or face-to-face communications?
Physical separation, Bureaucratic methods, limited interaction
What are conflict reduction strategies when the target of change is behaviors?
You see me once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years.
What is m?
Teams are given real problems relevant to the organization and then held accountable for analyzing the problem, developing an action plan, and finally carrying out the action plan.
What is action learning?
It has cities, but no houses; It has forests, but no trees; and it has water, but no fish.
What is a Map?
The degree to which team members make good recommendations to the team leader and leaders monitor and provide feedback about the quality expected for each recommendation.
What is staff validity?
The problem is, the other party may use the information to its advantage
What is collaborating?
I follow you all day long, but when the night or rain comes, I am all gone.
What is a shadow?
It is intended to facilitate the development of team processes related to goal setting, interpersonal relations, problem-solving, and role clarification.
What is team building?
A man is looking at a photograph of someone. His friend asks who it is. The man replies, “Brothers and sisters, I have none. But that man’s father is my father’s son.” Who was in the photograph?
Who is, "his son"?