Deck 6: Team Self-Leadership: Sharing the Journey

Question 1

Teams work best when individuals have:

A)strong individual skills and strong organizational skills
B)strong team skills
C)strong organizational skills and strong team skills
D)strong individual skills and strong team skills

Answer 1

D

Question 2

All of the following are specific behavioral team self-leadership practices except:

A)team self-observation
B)team cue modification
C)team self-talk
D)team self-punishment

Answer 2

C

Question 3

All of the following are outcomes of leading yourself in a team except:

A)the team leading itself
B)focus on individual rewards
C)the team reaching its potential
D)achieving synergy

Answer 3

B

Question 4

A team can engage in which of the following types of thinking?

A)Opportunity and pressurized
B)Opportunity and obstacle
C)Opportunity
D)Obstacle and pressurized

Question 5

The application of mental and behavioral self-leadership strategies can lead to team members being:

A)more self-directed and self-motivated
B)more self-motivated
C)more focused on natural rewards
D)more focused on natural rewards and more self-motivated

Question 6

Estimates suggest that what percentage of North American businesses have some type of self-managed team?

A)20-30%
B)50-60%
C)70-80%
D)80-90%

Question 7

When team members practice a presentation that will be presented to the organization,a example of which behavioral team self-leadership strategies is being used?

A)Team self-observation
B)Team rehearsal
C)Team self-goal setting
D)Mental strategies

Question 8

To be considered as a team self-influence,rewards and sanctions must be administered by the:

A)individuals
B)organization
C)managers
D)team

Question 9

Team goal setting has goals that are established by:

A)the leader
B)the team
C)the individuals
D)the organization

Question 10

Group self-talk can lead to less:

A)performance
B)discussion
C)groupthink
D)effectiveness

Question 11

An example of synergy within in a team would be:

A)1+1 = 2
B)1+1+1=5
C)1+2 = 3
D)1+1+1 = 3

Question 12

All of the following are the results of having teams in the workplace except:

A)increased productivity
B)reduced costs
C)increased costs
D)reduced absenteeism

Question 13

Team self-leadership is similar to individual self-leadership because:

A)they both involve the use of mental self-leadership strategies
B)they both involve the use of behavioral self-leadership strategies
C)they both involve the use of both mental and natural reward strategies
D)they both involve the use of both mental and behavioral self-leadership strategies

Question 14

Self-leadership when working in a team is as important as when working alone.

A)less
B)just
C)more
D)even

Question 15

The creation where individuals accomplish more together than they could if they acted on their own is:

A)teamthink
B)groupthink
C)synergy
D)self-leadership

Question 16

The terms self-leadership and teams do what with each other?

A)Contradict
B)Oppose
C)Relate
D)Supplement

Question 17

An attempt by a team to remove items that lead to undesirable behaviors and increase elements that lead to more desirable behaviors is:

A)team cue modification
B)team self-punishment/self-reward
C)team self-goal-setting
D)team self-observation

Question 18

Successful teams are those that possess which of the following needed to perform work well?

A)Skills
B)Equipment
C)Supplies
D)Rewards

Question 19

A team's collective effort to purposefully understand antecedents and consequences associated with actions is:

A)team self-goal-setting
B)team self-observation
C)team self-reward
D)team rehearsal

Question 20

The act of effectively leading yourself as a team member can lead to the team:

A)reaching its potential
B)participating in groupthink
C)not achieve synergy
D)create conflict

Question 21

In new,team based environments,having a group of people who are capable self-leaders is to guarantee the success of a team.

A)necessary and sufficient
B)necessary,but not sufficient
C)sufficient,but not necessary
D)neither necessary nor sufficient

Question 22

Discuss the role of synergy within a team and how synergy can lead to overall higher performance and greater accomplishments as compared to an individual effort.Provide an example that shows how synergy can be applied to explain why this may lead to greater performance.

Question 23

Individuals accomplish more together than they can accomplish individuals due to synergy.

Question 24

Which of the following are types of mental strategies that a team could engage in when attempting to use team self-leadership?

A)Mental imagery,team self-talk,and team self-goal setting
B)Mental imagery and team self-reward
C)Team self-talk,team beliefs and assumptions,and team rehearsal
D)Team self-talk,team beliefs and assumptions,and thought patterns

Question 25

The example from Miracle of the name on the front of the jersey is a helluva lot more important than the one on the back represents the concept of:

A)shared leadership
B)balancing the me with the we
C)individual self-leadership
D)team self-leadership

Question 26

The dynamic interactive influence process in which team members lead one another to accomplish team goals successfully is?

A)Individual self-leadership
B)Team self-leadership
C)Shared leadership
D)External leadership

Question 27

Team self-rewards are ways that teams reinforce their behaviors by providing only tangible rewards to one another and to the group as a whole that strengthen or increase those behaviors.

Question 28

What are the key behavioral team-self-leadership practices and how do these differ from individual level approaches? Are these aspects of self-leadership ones that can only be applicable at the individual level,the team level,or both? Why

Question 29

When engaging in team self-leadership,individuals should still focus attention towards engaging in individual level self-leadership to lead to positive outcomes that can translate to the team level.

Question 30

Extreme dysfunctional thinking (i.e. ,black and white thinking)at the team level can lead to what type of evaluations?

A)Open-minded
B)Ends of spectrum
C)All aspects of spectrum
D)None of the above

Question 31

Explain the basic premise of mental team self-leadership and how (if it does)it differs from individual level self-leadership.What are the key collective mental strategies and what does each skill add to mental team self-leadership?

Question 32

To be a team that effectively leads itself,its members should not engage in individual level self-leadership as that takes away focus from the team.

Question 33

Collective team mental self-leadership strategies include:

A)mental imagery
B)team self-talk
C)thought patterns
D)all of the above

Question 34

How do the terms self-leadership and teams not contradict one another? What are the key components of "team-self leadership" and how do those (if they do)differ from individual self-leadership?

Question 35

An example of mental team self-leadership strategies that involve sharing a common vision and visualizing effective means for accomplishing goals is team self-talk.

Question 36

To be fully prepared and engaged in shared leadership,all team members must be capable of:

A)self-leading and leading others
B)self-leading and being led
C)leading other and being led
D)self leading,leading others,and be led

Question 37

The idea that teams can enhance their performance through the collective application of specific mental strategies is the basic premise of:

A)individual mental self-leadership
B)team mental self-leadership
C)team behavioral self-leadership
D)individual and team mental self-leadership

Question 38

Leadership comes from and is received by all members of the team in which form of leadership?

A)External leadership
B)Individual team self-leadership
C)Shared leadership
D)Team self-leadership

Question 39

With the increasing importance of teams in the workplace,describe the differences between groupthink and teamthink.How can self-leadership strategies reduce groupthink and increase teamthink?

Question 40

Capable self-leaders are able to:

A)lead others when they posses relevant knowledge
B)be led by others when it is others who possess the relevant expertise
C)leading others and being led by others
D)only leading themselves