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Topic: Teamwork

 Lesson: Teamwork Skills (Required)Pre-TestPost-Test
1.It is okay to be five minutes late to a team meeting.
2.Communicating effectively involves both speaking up and listening.
3.Cooperation means making your individual goals identical to the team’s goals.
4.The team leader sets all the team’s goals.
5.You do not have to like other team members in order to respect their contributions.
6.When a team fails, the first task is to find out who is to blame.
7.Every team member should contribute three things: ideas, time and work.
8.The most effective way to settle a conflict is for one side to give up for the good of the team.
9.For a job well done, formal credit is not enough. Personal praise from team members is also important.
10.Everyone on the team is responsible for the outcome.
 Lesson: Reasons Companies Use Teams (Optional)Pre-TestPost-Test
1.Shared knowledge enables teams to tackle larger problems than any one person could handle.
2.In brainstorming, you evaluate each idea carefully before going on to the next.
3.Teams get bogged down when members look at questions from several different angles.
4.Everyone has blind spots.
5.Contrasting personalities help a team gain a broader view.
6.You can find a few people who are completely unbiased.
7.Teams make it harder to focus on a problem.
8.Teams usually make fewer major errors than individuals.
9.Business teams are especially useful for making decisions and solving problems.
10.Belonging to a team lowers a person’s motivation to succeed.
 Lesson: Decisions Teams Make (Required)Pre-TestPost-Test
1.Usually there is one standard way to reach a business goal.
2.All important team rules and procedures are set by management, not by team members.
3.The team leader helps promote a good team atmosphere.
4.Team roles vary according to the type of team.
5.The best way for a team to plan a task is to divide it into short, practical steps that are agreed on beforehand.
6.Teams rarely set their own deadlines.
7.A team may find resources it needs within its own company or outside it.
8.Most workplace teams do no set their own budget responsibilities.
9.A well-functioning team will not encounter any significant obstacles to completing its task.
10.In the end, management decides whether the team was a success or failure, so the team’s own opinion is unimportant.
 Lesson: Team Responsibilities (Required)Pre-TestPost-Test
1.Teams are responsible for identifying their own members’ special talents.
2.To earn your teammates’ trust, you have to show you trust them.
3.Team members should rely on the leader to keep the big picture in view.
4.To be successful, teams have to take some risks.
5.Problem solving should be left to the team’s best thinkers.
6.Because each member has a unique outlook, teams are bound to be inefficient.
7.A good team sees problems in a positive light.
8.It is your job as a team member to give other members feedback.
9.When other team members get into a disagreement, you should stay out of it.
10.Employee teams today often make big decisions.
 Lesson: Problems That Affect Teams (Required)Pre-TestPost-Test
1.Teams always begin with clear goals.
2.Individual goals are okay as long as they do not interfere with the team effort.
3.If team members don’t believe each other’s promises, that shows lack of trust.
4.A team is better off if the less talented people don’t participate.
5.Some kinds of conflict are good for a team.
6.Good communication means avoiding discussion of conflicts.
7.Smart business teams avoid taking risks.
8.Conflict occurs when team members have different goals.
9.Every team member should be held accountable for the team’s performance.
10.More than one person can be a team leader.
 Lesson: Building Team Communication (Required)Pre-TestPost-Test
1.Brainstorming builds team spirit.
2.A team should not let a few members dominate the conversation.
3.People with no direct experience with a problem have little to contribute to a team.
4.You can encourage feedback by asking clarifying questions.
5.Once a conflict gets out into the open, it's to late to look for its root causes.
6.Agreeing to disagree just delays a conflict without resolving it.
7.Each conflict has a winner and a loser.
8.To be assertive, you also need to be aggressive.
9.Destructive comments damage a person’s self-esteem.
10.You can almost always trust your immediate perceptions and interpretations of what others say and do.
 Lesson: Expressing Yourself on a Team (Optional)Pre-TestPost-Test
1.To speak effectively in team meetings, you should keep your remarks short.
2.Your ideas will seem confused if you don’t express them logically.
3.Self-talk is what you say about yourself to your teammates.
4.Good eye contact requires watching a listener's eyes continually.
5.Negative comments can be rephrased in a positive way.
6.Sitting with your shoulders forward makes you look confident.
7.Rapid arm gestures are useful for driving home your point.
8.It’s important to be honest about your feelings as well as your ideas.
9.When possible, you should build your comments on what other people have said.
10.A mirror can help you practice your posture while speaking.
 Lesson: Giving Constructive Criticism (Optional)Pre-TestPost-Test
1.Constructive criticism means focusing on the person, not the issue.
2.The team member who caused a problem should be expected to fix it without involving others.
3.The best way to mix praise and criticism is to begin with the praise.
4.When criticizing a teammate’s work, you should refer to similar mistakes the person made in the past.
5.Empathy makes criticism easier to take.
6."You" statements are all right for praise but not for blame.
7."I" messages help you explain why you blame your teammate.
8.After making a criticism, you should expect more discussion.
9.If your main reason for criticizing is revenge, you should rethink your criticism.
10.You should openly admit what you don’t know.
 Lesson: Receiving Criticism (Optional)Pre-TestPost-Test
1.To avoid feeling defensive, it helps to clench your fists.
2.Though it’s sometimes difficult, you can set your ego aside when you listen to criticism.
3.Anger often springs from deeper emotions like fear.
4.While someone is criticizing you, you should concentrate on planning your reply.
5.Clarifying questions encourage the speaker to explain more clearly.
6.Probing questions help you get at the real reason for the criticism.
7.In paraphrasing, you repeat the speaker’s exact words.
8.Your interpretations of criticism are private, not to be discussed with your critic.
9.It’s important to thank teammates when they criticize you.
10.After receiving constructive criticism, you should consider changes in the way you work.
 Lesson: Team Problem Solving (Optional)Pre-TestPost-Test
1.The main problem to be solved is usually obvious.
2.A team’s goal is defined before working on a solution.
3.The aim of brainstorming is quality, not quantity.
4.After brainstorming is finished, team members examine the ideas for effectiveness.
5.So as not to lose focus, a problem-solving team should concentrate on one possible solution at a time.
6.After a team develops a detailed plan, it determines what information it needs to proceed.
7.An action plan should indicate who will do what and when.
8.Planning includes trying to anticipate major barriers.
9.Once the team puts its plan into action, everyone can relax.
10.If the team reaches its goal, its work is finished.
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