1.Think of a time when you had several deadlines the same week.

a)How did you handle this situation? Did you complete one and then begin the next or keep all moving forward?

b)Did you learn anything about how you can best complete multiple deadlines in close proximity?

2. How do you decide when to handle or address a problem or issue yourself versus delegate it to someone else? What are the advantages and disadvantages of both approaches?

3. One of your employees has difficulty initiating any new project assigned to her.

a)What might be the cause(s) of such hesitation/procrastination?

b)How can you help her overcome these issues and thus become

a more productive individual?

4. From the list of values below that have the most impact on developing trust and credibility within and effective functioning of a team. How will team members behave if these values are lacking?

4.1. Growth

4.2. Responsibility and accountability

4.3. Leadership

4.4. Knowledge

5What would be necessary for you to trust someone (leader) to the extent that you buy into their vision or directions and contribute to these by going above and beyond your assigned duties to ensure success?

Are you displaying those characteristics/traits to those

a) reporting to you

b) to whom you report

c) whom you consider friends or colleagues?

6 Technical leaders must both develop/evaluate/supervise others and maintain and extend their technical capabilities/expertise if they are to continue to be effective, have credibility, and trust from those reporting to them. Since there are only 24 h in a day, how can a technical leader maintain and extend his/her technical abilities while functioning as a leader to others?

7 One of your subordinates, Tom, approves a change in the production process temperature used to alter the structure of a polymer semiconductor for transistor fabrication in an attempt to improve the device yield. Unfortunately, he did not run reliability tests before implementation. This change results in improved device properties and initial yield, but poor reliability. The poor performance that results causes a primary customer to cancel their future orders.

aHow should you discuss this incident with Tom and your boss?

bHow will you reestablish trust and credibility between you and Tom, between your organization