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1. 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
2. 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
3. Teams work best when individuals have strong ______ skills.
a. individual skills and strong organizational
b. team
c. organizational skills and strong team
d. individual skills and strong team
4. 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
5. What are now team tasks that were formerly management tasks?
a. conducting meetings
b. solving technical problems
c. assignment of tasks
d. all of these
6. Estimates suggest that what percentage of North American businesses have some
type of self-managed team?
a. 80–90%
b. 70–80%
c. 50-60%
d. 20–30%
7. The application of mental and behavioral self-leadership strategies can lead to team
members being more ______.
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a. focused on natural rewards
b. self-motivated
c. self-directed and self-motivated
d. focused on natural rewards and more self-motivated
8. 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
9. Which of the following is not a behavioral team self-leadership practice?
a. team self-reward
b. team extrinsic reward
c. team practice
d. team cue modification
10. All of the following are outcomes of leading yourself in a team except ______.
a. the team leading itself
b. the team reaching its potential
c. focus on individual rewards
d. achieving synergy
11. Team self-leadership is similar to individual self-leadership because they both
involve the use of ______.
a. mental self-leadership strategies
b. behavioral self-leadership strategies
c. both mental and natural reward strategies
d. both mental and behavioral self-leadership strategies
12. Do the terms teams and self-leadership contradict each other?
a. Yes, there is a contradiction.
b. Yes, the terms are opposites.
c. No, the terms are related.
d. No, the terms supplement the other term.
13. A team’s collective effort that purposefully understands antecedents and
consequences associated with actions is team ______.
a. self-goal-setting
b. self-observation
c. self-reward
d. rehearsal
14. All of the following are specific behavioral team self-leadership practices except
team ______.
a. self-observation
b. cue modification
c. self-talk
d. self-punishment
15. An attempt by a team to remove items that lead to undesirable behaviors and
increase items that lead to behaviors that are more desirable is team ______.
a. cue modification
b. self-punishment/self-reward
c. self-goal-setting
d. self-observation
16. When there is a team self-influence, reward and sanctions are provided by the
______.
a. individuals
b. organization
c. managers
d. team
17. When team members practice a presentation that will be presented to the
organization, which behavioral team self-leadership strategies is being used as an
example?
a. team self-observation
b. team rehearsal
c. team self-goal setting
d. mental strategies
18. Team self-goal setting requires the ______ to establish the goals.
a. team leader
b. team members
c. each individuals
d. the organization
19. Group-enforced conformity dialogue or group self-talk can lead to less ______.
a. performance
b. discussion
c. groupthink
d. effectiveness
20. In which of the following types of thinking can a team engage?
a. opportunity and pressurized
b. opportunity and obstacle
c. opportunity
d. obstacle and pressurized
21. 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
22. 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 these
23. 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
24. Collective team mental self-leadership strategies include ______.
a. mental imagery
b. team self-talk
c. thought patterns
d. all of these
25. 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
26. Capable self-leaders are able to ______.
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a. lead others when they possess 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
27. In a new, team-based environment, 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
28. 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
29. 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
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30. 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
31. Teamthink includes the following characteristics ______.
a. internal information
b. discussion of the collective doubts
c. self-censorship of views
d. social pressure for consistency
32. One method to avoid groupthink in a team is to ______.
a. agree with the predominant opinion
b. rationalize a decision
c. offer a divergent view
d. keep quiet about concerns
1. Individuals accomplish more together than they can accomplish individuals due to
synergy.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
1. 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.
2. 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?
3. 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?
4. 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?
5. 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?