Exam 10: Group Leadership and Problem Solving

Which of the following is not a procedural leadership role?

What should a group participant do before a meeting?

Which of the following statement about maintenance roles is accurate?

You are the leader of a service group, and you need to have a meeting to discuss the last service project and choose a new service project. Describe how you will prepare for the meeting, noting at least three things your book says leaders should do to prepare for a meeting.

________________ are group members who help lead the group to achieve different leadership functions.

Identify and explain three of the five shared leadership responsibilities discussed in your text.

What role do you find yourself performing most often in groups? Why do you perform this role so often? What do you offer your groups when you perform this role? What does performing this role keep you from being able to do in the groups of which you are a member?

When should a streaming video be used as a deliverable?

Leslie is offended when Amy makes a very direct statement critiquing her opinion. Edward says to Leslie, "When Amy makes straight-forward critiques like that, she's just thinking out loud, and she doesn't mean it offensively. She comes from a family that used to debate a lot, and it's just her conversational style." Edward could be best described as ____.

Questions of value ask the group to determine what is true or to what extent something is true.

A sorority house's roof needs repair, and the sorority members must find a way to fix it. Identify each of the problem-solving steps your book lists and suggest an example of something the sorority members could do in each step to solve this problem.

Statements such as "I've heard five comments in favor of this proposal and three against. Are we ready to take a vote?" are made to _______________.

Before starting a major section of a project, Aja types up a one-page report that summarizes the issue, major information about it, her group's plan, and their rationale for doing what they plan to do. She prints the document and gives it to her boss. This document is called ____________.

After a meeting, a group leader should _______________________________.

During the meeting, the leader is responsible for ________________________.

Kwan creates a 16-slide PowerPoint presentation with bullet points and graphs that illustrates his group's progress. He posts it on a webpage that all project members and managers can access. Kwan's document is called ___________________.

The person in a group who says, "We need to consider how this information affects the outcome, so can you explain it a little more?" is behaving as ____________.

Group members may become uncomfortable about sharing their ideas and opinions. The task members who usually prevent these problems are _______________.

________________ is a structured problem-solving discussion held by a group in front of an audience.

In his group, Kevin tends to share his thoughts, offer new perspectives, and develop innovative new ideas. Kevin is best described as ____.