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WorksheetsSelf Management Quiz
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 16mins
What is the focus of the Facilitator within a Governance Meeting?
Responding to people’s emotional needs and working through tense issues as-needed.
Stopping any communication coming from negative emotions, blame, etc.
Immediately redirecting people back into alignment with process requirements when they talk out of turn.
Ensuring everyone feels heard and is comfortable with the process.
Enacting the rules of the Constitution for conducting governance, and holding rigidly to
What elements form the definition of a Role?
Strategy.
Domains.
Accountabilities.
Next Actions.
Purpose.
Which of the following actions by a facilitator is helpful or encouraged in the Clarifying Questions phase?
Encouraging the proposer to respond fully to each question.
Assessing when a question is really conveying a perspective to the proposer, and cutting it off.
Inviting questions to understand the proposal or the tension behind it.
Keeping other Circle Members quiet so the proposer can dialogue with the questioner until their questions are fully answered.
Searching for tensions underneath clarifying questions through dialogue with the questioner.
What does the Facilitator disallow during the Reaction Round?
Philosophical diatribes by a reactor, when unrelated to the proposal.
A reaction that conveys a question about the proposal.
Commenting by someone else as or after someone is reacting.
An emotional outburst by the reactor during their turn reacting.
When a tension you sense requires a change to the broader context or environment beyond your circle’s scope, what would be the most appropriate role/forum to raise that tension with/in for processing?
Rep Link.
Governance Meeting.
Tactical Meeting.
Strategy Meeting.
Lead Link.
Which roles are elected?
Secretary.
Facilitator.
Rep Link.
All roles are filled by election unless explicitly decided otherwise.
Lead Link.
According to the Playbook, what is a Secretary accountable for?
Interpreting the meaning of a Circle’s current governance upon request.
Capturing Projects and Next-Actions defined in Tactical Meetings.
Scheduling regular Governance & Tactical Meetings.
Defining governance to resolve tensions identified during a Tactical Meeting, and capturing it into the governance records if agreed upon in the Tactical Meting.
Assigning Circle Members to fill newly defined roles.
How is the purpose of a Circle established?
The Purpose is discovered and set within the Circle’s own Governance Meeting.
The Purpose is established within a Governance Meeting of the Circle’s Super-Circle.
The Purpose is discovered and set through a collective inquiry process in the Circle’s own Strategy Meeting.
The Lead Link sets the Purpose of the Circle.
Which of the following describe an Objection?
A reason why adopting the proposal might cause significant harm later, if there will be no opportunity to sense that tension and adapt later before that harm is caused.
A reason a circle member is unwilling to accept or at least “live with” the proposal as-is.
An existing tension related to the proposal that’s been limiting another role and which the proposal fails to address.
A reason why adopting the proposal will decrease the current capacity of the circle to express its purpose.
What is a Check-in Round?
A time to sort out interpersonal issues with others that get in the way of work.
A safe space to ask for group support.
A time for contemplative silent reflection.
A space to notice what state you’re in and what has your attention, and call it out.
What is the purpose of the Closing Round in a Governance meeting?
To clarify the next-actions people will take as a result of the decision made during the meeting.
To reflect upon the meeting and get closure.
To dialogue about the meeting.
To plan a time for the next meeting.
What should the Facilitator do in a Tactical Meeting if she/he doesn’t get through all the agenda items in the allotted?
Schedule a special meeting to go through them.
Move as fast as needed to ensure this doesn’t happen in the first place.
Carry them over the next meeting.
Ask the Secretary to e-mail unprocessed agenda items to the Circle.
Select all true statements from the following. A Circle…
… is defined as a team of people energizing related work.
… defines its own contained Roles to express its Purpose.
… has the authority to self-organize how it expresses its Purpose, enacts its Accountabilities, and controls its Domains.
… has authority to govern the people within the circle.
… is permeable to input from its broader circle.
What are the accountabilities of a Lead Link?
Removing Partners from the Circle’s Roles as-needed.
Facilitating the meetings
Holding and energizing those Accountabilities placed on the overall Circle by its Super-Circle that are not yet differentiated into a specific Role or process within the Circle.
Energizing any additional Accountabilities added to the Lead Link Role in a Governance Meeting.
Allocating resources across the Circle’s various Roles and activities.
When you want to change the prioritization of your circle, what would be the most appropriate role/forum to raise that tension with/in?
Tactical Meeting.
Governance Meeting.
Lead Link.
Proposing to create a policy to define new priorities.
Which of the following are valid outputs of a Governance meeting?
Policies.
Changes to a Role’s Purpose.
Election Results.
Resource Allocations.
Projects.
