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WorksheetsThe Dichotomy of Leadership Chapter 5-6
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
What is the most effective way to improve the team’s performance?
Create frequently recurring trainings.
Make sure every team member is coached every single day.
Feedback sessions every hour.
Advanced tactics are worthless if the team can’t do the basics well.
True, leaders must ensure that a training program develops the foundation of basic fundamentals.
True, leaders must ensure that a training program develops trainings on the identified areas of improvement.
If the training doesn’t push the team, beyond the limits of what is easy, the teams and particularly the leaders within the team, will never develop the capacity to take on __________.
Greater decisions
Greater challenges
Greater adventures
Training is essential, but if training is too hard, it will break the team and minimize___________. So, there must be a balance: train hard, but train smart.
Performance
Teams’ motivation
Learning and growth
Leaders must find the balance in training and focus on three critical aspects.
Realism, fundamentals, and repetition.
Fundamentals, foundations, and realism.
Fundamentals, realism, and breakpoints.
Leaders who pushed their people to excel, continuously learn and growth, enable their teams to become comfortable in situations where they were previously successful.
True
False
Trainings must simulate realistic challenges and apply pressure to ___________. There is no growth in the comfort zone.
Decision-makers
Team Members
While being aggressive is a great default attitude to have, it still must be balance with caution and careful consideration.
True, to ensure it is not a case of excessive risk with limited reward.
True, to ensure risks are worthy and expected.
Problems aren’t going to solve themselves, a leader must get aggressive and take action. Being too passive and waiting for a solution to appear often enables problems to get fixed with time.
True
False
The best leaders and teams don’t wait to act, what do they do instead?
They understand the strategic vision, they execute to overcome obstacles, and capitalize on immediate opportunities.
They understand the strategic vision, they execute to overcome obstacles, and wait for the enemy to back off.
Wait for changes to implement, they execute to overcome obstacles, and capitalize on immediate opportunities.
Leaders must always deal professionally with subordinates on the team, peers, leaders up to the chain of command, customers and clients.
True, aggressive means proactive. This means that the leader can be aggressive toward their people, in order to accomplish the mission.
True, aggressive means proactive. It doesn’t mean that the leader can be angry or lose their temper.
Sometimes the prudent decision is to wait and see how things develops.
True
False
To be overly aggressive, without critical thinking, is to be _________.
Smart
Reckless
Patient
When does the “disease of victory” takes place?
When a team keeps having success over and over by being aggressive and proactive.
When previous success produce overconfidence and underestimating the capabilities of its competitor.
Leaders must be cautious that they are not “running to their deaths” simply because their instinct is to take _________.
Ownership
Action
Challenges
Decisions
