Assume you have been appointed as leader of a team of colleagues. In each scenario below, identify the major issues you need to address and the key actions that you would take to ensure the success of the team. What is your role as a leader?

• Within your assigned group, discuss the responses to the five questions shown below:
  • 9.9. The team has just come together for the first time, and this is its first meeting.
  • 9.10. You join a team that has been together for several meetings and has, unfortunately, had a history of being unproductive, goofing off, and partying with one another a bit too much.
  • 9.11. Your team is experiencing a lot of conflict among members. Strongly held points of view exist that seem not to be compatible. Factions have begun to arise in the team.
  • 9.12. Your team is well oiled and highly functioning, and you want to make sure that this high level of performance not only continues but improves.