Leading Teams

Quiz
1.Choose the most appropriate answer.The iceberg example quoted by the speaker
talks about
Both surface level-diversity and deep-level diversity

2."If your team needs to execute a task quickly and efficiently, how should you
structure decision making in your team?"
Centralized

3.Design your team for excellence by _____ , ______&_______."

Team size,surface and deep level diversity and team goals

4."Task Conflict if managed well is beneficial as it enhance divergent

thinking,critical thinking and problem soving."
ANS. True

5.Structure support helps a team to maintain team effectiveness even when they are
highly virtual.Examples of structural support includes
good and clear examples

"fair reward structures, clear task structures, clear roles, "

consistent and reinforcing communication and information sharing.

6."Tom from marketing and John from accounting are working on the launch
strategy of a new product line. Tom is strongly advocating spending a lot of
money on TV advertisement, while John wants to curb the spending as much as
possible. Why is this an example of a task conflict?"
ANS. They are disagreeing on which processes within the compay
are working

7. "By dividing the work in such a way that every teammate is engaged in every
single task, you typically raise coordination costs and compromise your
performance in the _______ quadrant of the mission model of leadership"

Answer red
8.Which of the following strategies can improve effectiveness in a virtual
team?
ANSWER: Build a safe environment where people feel they can speak up

9. Choose any three options (of the four provided) as the three factors that
account for Surface- and deep-level diversity within a team.
ANSWER:- DEMOGRAPHICS PERSONALITY AND VALUES

10.The move from a centralised team structure to a decentralized structure

depends on:
ANSWER:-THE PERFORMANCE OF A FUNCTIONAL SILOS IN TEAM

11.What are the potential benefits of having good cultural awareness?

ANSWER: ALL OF THE ABOVE

12. A team is truly effective when:

ANSWER:-EACH OF ITS MEMBERS HAVE A REAL SENSE OF SELF AND IS REALISTIC
ABOUT THE SKILLS THEY OWN

13.It's also important to value the performance of your team in the _______
segment of the Michigan Model of Leadership. Which is your teammates'
satisfaction with the team performance and processes within the team.
ANSWER:- BLUE

14.Higher expectations from team lead to

ANSWER:-REDUCED PRODUCTIVITY

15.Teams that had a specialist structure developed norms for:

ANSWER:-COORDINATION AND COOPERATION

16.Leveraging the strengths and weaknesses of people causes

ANSWER:-BRINGS OUT THE BEST IN EVERYONE AND OPENS DIALOUGE

17.A team's charter or strategy has a direct impact on

ANSWER:-TEAM MOTIVATION;TEAM PERFORMANCE TEAM TO CRUMBLE

18.Choose the correct option. Extraversion generates (A) More Communication

(B)More Ideas (C) More sharing of information (D) Drives creativity in the team

ANSWER:-ABCD
19.Highly virtual teams with high geographic dispersion should build safe
environment to
ANSWER:-PROMOTE OPEN DISCUSSIONS WHERE PEOPLE CAN SPEAK AND
CHALLENGE EACH OTHER

20.We should try to have as much ______ time with each player of the etam to
make him feel that we know him personally.
ANSWER:-PERSONAL

21.In dynamic environments where you don't know if your performance

strategy is going to be optimal or not what can be secret to your Team's
success
ANSWER:-TEAM CHARTER

22.What strategies help mitigate the common information effect in teams?

ANSWER:-RANK ORDERING ALTERNATIVES;MINIMISING STATUS DIFFERENCES

23."As the formal leader of the Apollo 13 mission, Gene decided to:"
ANSWER:-DELEGATE TASKS AND CERTAIN DECISION MAKING TO THE TEAM

24."If your team needs to execute a task quickly and efficiently, how should
you structure decision making in your team?"
ANSWER:-CENTRALISED

25.It's important to measure the performance of your team on objective

performance indicators which is the ______ segment in the Michigan Model of
Leadership.
ANSWER:-BLUE

26.Choose the most appropriate answer from the sentences mentioned.

ANSWER:-ABILITY AND PERSONALITY FAULT LINES DID NOT HAVE A REAL
IMPACT ON EITHER COHESION OR CONFLICT

27.The optimal team size for effectiveness is less than 4.

ANSWER:-FALSE

28.The other term used for relationship conflict is also known as____________.
ANSWER:-AFFECTIVE

29."In terms of a team, what does ""too much me than us"" mean"
ANSWER:-ALL OF THE ABOVE