The Discipline of Teams

A team’s performance, by contrast, calls for both individual

and ---------- accountability.

• mutual

• collective

• team

• group

Mutual Accountability enables a team to achieve ---------- levels that are far

greater than the individual bests of the team’s members.

• target

• performance

• productivity

• efficiency

Team members must do more than listen, ------------ constructively, and provide support to one another.

• speak

• discuss

• respond

• evaluate

Teams to be successful, in addition to sharing the team-building values, they must

share an essential ------------.

• goal

• purpose

• skill

• discipline

To be successful, the team

must “----------” this purpose, develop its own

spin on it.

• own

• create

• monitor

• evaluate

Compelling goals inspire and challenge a team, give it a sense of ---------.

They also have a leveling effect, requiring members to focus on the collective effort necessary rather than any differences in title

or status.

• importance

• urgency

• priority

• commitment

Successful teams rarely have all the needed skills at the outset—they develop them as they learn what the ---------- requires.

• task

• project

• challenge

• team

On a genuine team, each member does equivalent amounts of

------------ work; all members, the leader included, contribute in concrete ways to the team’s collective work-products.

• total

• visible

• intangible

• real

Trust and ------------- cannot be coerced.

• commitment

• relationship

• equity

• honesty

If a task doesn’t demand ------------ work-products, a working group can be the more effective option.

• group

• joint

• team

• collective