• As a team leader, Peter's team has recently been assigned to develop a new product that is viewed as a risky assignment in his company. To build credibility, what is best for Peter to do?

1.-A) Focus primarily on managing disagreement among his team members as they perform

B) Ask senior management to provide training that focuses on problem solving to his team members

C) Provide his team members with statistics related to the number of new products that have succeeded

D) Display attitude views with which his team members can agree

E) Continue to adjust whatever he was doing before; it is fine; he is going to be successful

2.-True or False: As a leader of a team, skills on how to manage conflict would be extremely useful in the forming stage of team development

3.-Your boss has informed you that you will be the team leader of a team made of successful team players (they have been successful individuals before). The boss has asked you to design a motivational package that will reward and recognize individuals within the team: for sure this team will succeed in any dimension. Is this a good idea?

A) There is not enough information to determine whether the idea is good or not.

B) This is a good idea; the team is made of highly successful individuals; hence start preparing for rewarding the most successful members of this team

C) this is not a good idea because the team may think that the team members, when they see you preparing for rewards, they will think you already have decided who the winners are and they may feel that there is no motivation for them to work-the winners have been decided already

D) This is not a good idea; they may have been successful, but they may not be able to work successfully in this team; hence do not start rewarding ahead of time

4.-Mary has decided to set the following goal: To do the best she can in her management class this semester and to keep up with the readings. Mary's goal does not satisfy which criteria?

A) Being measurable

B) Being consistent

C) Being appropriately challenging

D) Being achievable