3DE Competency/Analytical Tool Review #1

This competency promotes and generates cooperation to achieve a collective input and output from a diversity of entities

• Effective Collaboration

• Engaging Communcation

• Self-Direction

• Critical & Analytical Thinking

This analytical framework is a roadmap to align the strategy for, and support the execution of, a specific goal.

• Responsibility tool

• Cascading Goals

• Communication Collaboration Tool

• Cascading alignment tool

What is cascading goals?
Choose the most appropriate response.

• The process of linking employees' responsibilities to the overall goals of the organization

• The act of developing a broad, company-wide objective

• A business decision to take responsibility for issues of environmental or social wellbeing

• A choice to delegate the responsibility for achieving goals to others in an organization

Which statement best describes how cascading goals help to promote resolution and unity among teams?
Choose the most appropriate response

• Each person and team will understand how the work will be monitored

• Each person and team will share the work equally

• Each person and team will understand their role and specific responsibilities aligned with the goal

• Each person and team will know what the manager will do in order to reach the goal

Which of the following is true about cascading goals?
Choose the most appropriate response.

• Cascading goals is a way to explain job descriptions to employees

• Cascading goals puts most of the responsibility on the managers

• Cascading goals is a strategic exercise for executive employees only

• Cascading goals helps all employees understand expectations for collaboration on an organizational goal

What is a responsibility?
Choose the most appropriate response.

• A spreading, pervasive, and usually unintentional effect of influence

• A task that a person or group must complete

• A sense of ownership for the success or failure of a task

• A business voluntarily taking responsibility for social or environmental issues

Which statement best describes the role of a manager on a team?
Choose the most appropriate response.

• A person who takes a leadership role in an organization and supervises a team of employees

• A person hired to end conflicts between members of a team

• A person employed for wages or salary, especially below the executive level

• A person who writes job descriptions and develops budgets

Why is it important to set personal goals in the workplace?

• To compete with your colleagues

• To ensure you only do the minimum required

• To have a clear direction and measure your progress

• Personal goals are not important in the workplace

Answer explanation

Setting personal goals in the workplace is important to have a clear direction and measure progress, not to compete with colleagues or do the minimum required.

Which of the following is NOT important to consider when determining whether organizations are strong potential collaborators?
Choose the most appropriate response

• Information about who the organizations are and what they do

• An understanding of what matters to the organizations

• Data about the profits of each organization

• Details describing how the organizations set themselves apart from others

What is the primary benefit of effective collaboration within a team?

• Increased competition among team members

• Enhanced individual learning and growth

• Decreased project timelines

• Reduced need for leadership