WorksheetsEI-130 Individual Activity 2: When Collaboration Fails
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 7mins
Several team members are collaborating to create a presentation. Keiko has several presentation templates and images on her laptop, but she doesn’t share them with the team because she would rather save them to enhance her own personal presentations.
Keiko has failed to ____________________.
Communicate effectively
Be a good team player
Respect others’ time, schedules, and deadlines
Set goals together
Brent notices that Todd worked hard to organize all the books for the school’s book sale, but he doesn’t say anything to thank Todd for his efforts.
Todd has failed to ____________________.
Remove barriers
Organize the process
Recognize team members’ contributions
Carefully choose team members
Rita is leading a large research project to help her company determine its new marketing strategies. Her team members are confused about their individual responsibilities in completing the project.
Rita failed to ____________________.
Organize the process
Respect others’ time, schedules, and deadlines
Communicate effectively
Create a safe environment
Nikki is helping with a project to landscape the entryway to her school. When a team member shares some ideas that will be difficult to achieve, Nikki exclaims, “That’s impossible!” After her remarks, other team members are reluctant to share their ideas.
Nikki failed to ____________________.
Communicate effectively
Remove barriers
Organize the process
Create a safe environment
Mitzi selected the people to work on a project together with her. Steve and Erik are holding up the project because they have very different work styles and often disagree.
Mitzi failed to ____________________.
Remove barriers
Carefully choose team members
Set goals together
Be a good team player
McKenzie thinks the ideas presented and accepted by her team members are unoriginal and likely to fail. Instead of sharing her honest opinion, she nods her head in agreement.
McKenzie has failed to ____________________.
Create a safe environment
Be a good team player
Communicate effectively
Recognize team members’ contributions
Tara notices an error in the database, but she doesn’t bother to correct it or inform any of her team members about it.
Tara has failed to ____________________.
Remove barriers
Be a good team player
Recognize team members’ contributions
Organize the process
Sabrina has had weeks to write the text for a printed program to be used at an award ceremony at her school. She gives the text to Chen two days before the scheduled ceremony, which doesn’t give him much time to design and print the program.
Sabrina has failed to ____________________.
Remove barriers
Respect others’ time, schedules, and deadlines
Organize the process
Set goals together
Brady is sharing complex information to convince other team members why their ideas won’t work. They don’t understand because they are unfamiliar with the technical terms he is using.
Brady has failed to ____________________.
Communicate effectively
Set goals together
Be a good team player
Respect others’ time, schedules, and deadlines
After their first meeting to collaborate, all of Brian’s team members involved in the project are not sure what they are trying to achieve as a team.
Brian has failed to ____________________.
Carefully choose team members
Create a safe environment
Set goals together
Be a good team player
Adrian is leading a team to improve the company’s supply chain for household products. The project is currently delayed because the team is having difficulty getting much input from the household product manager, Darin, who works in another country.
Adrian has failed to ____________________.
Carefully choose team members
Organize the process
Recognize team members’ contributions
Remove barriers
Tamir selects everyone in the finance department to work on a project to plan a company picnic. Everyone on the team is great at budgeting and finding ways to save on costs, but team members are having trouble thinking of fun activities to include.
Tamir failed to ____________________.
Remove barriers
Carefully choose team members
Be a good team player
Respect others’ time, schedules, and deadlines
Mariah is directing a team to redesign the company’s retail website. Marketing employees want the website to allow customers to search for clothing items by size and color. The IT team members and accounting department are more concerned with item numbers and pricing information. The conversation is going nowhere because everyone wants a different outcome.
Mariah has failed to ____________________.
Communicate effectively
Create a safe environment
Set goals together
Be a good team player
