Team-Building and Leadership Quiz
Team-Building and Leadership quiz
(print it out, circle your answers, then go to the answer page)
Team Building:
1. Should your team state each goal in no more than five sentences and no less than two?
Yes No
2. Should your team have a formula to evaluate mission tasking?
Yes No
3. Should your team operate the same way for each mission, regardless of the environment in which the team is to operate?
Yes No
4. Should harassment and negative feedback be part of selecting and assessing team members in order to test them?
Yes No
5. Should most team members be capable of internal motivation in maintaining change?
Yes No
6. Should fear and negative thinking be prohibited so the team can focus on the positive?
Yes No
7. Should your team prepare for failure and worst case scenarios as an integral part of team-building?
Yes No
8. Should the mission be more important than the individual team members?
Yes No
9. Should a Standing Operating Procedure reduce initiative and flexibility?
Yes No
10. Should your team focus on doing it right the next time rather than reviewing past failures?
Yes No
Leadership:
11. Should you foster rule-breaking on your team?
Yes No
12. Should you ever put your team members in situations where they can’t succeed?
Yes No
13. Should you ignore team member personal goals if they have conflict with the team goals?
Yes No
14. Should you spend time telling team members WHY you want them to achieve goals, rather than simply telling them WHAT needs to be done?
Yes No
15. Should your first priority in personnel evaluation be to understand the primary motivations of each team member?
Yes No
16. Should you ignore the history of others who tried to achieve similar missions, in order to not be held to past ways of doing things?
Yes No
17. Should you consider making a decision real change?
Yes No
18. Should you admit to your team members when you’ve made a mistake?
Yes No
19. Should you demand respect upon taking charge and only give it to team members when they have earned your respect?
Yes No
20. Should you allow skill experts to be the primary ones to develop plans in their areas, rather than advise you, while you make the plan?
Yes No
Your Team:
21. Do people in your organization write clear reports that are easily understood?
Yes No
22. Does your team have a format for briefing the boss and support staff on their plan to accomplish the mission?
Yes No
23. Do you think your team is the best it can be or can it get better?
Yes No
24. Do you think your leadership is the best it can be or can it get better?
Yes No
25. Do you think Who Dares Wins can help your team?
Yes No