Questions For thought
1. What motivates your team? How do you use these motivators as a leader to help your team thrive in your organization? How are the concepts of skill variety, task identity, task significance, autonomy, support for autonomy, and feedback opera- tionalized in your team? How can they be improved?
2. How would a feedback method, such as Scott’s (2012) traffic-light method be received in your team? How as a leader might you introduce this method, or another method of feedback, to your team?
3. Are there barriers to creativity in your team? How do they appear in the work of your team? How do you as a leader remove these barriers?
4. How innovative is your team? What are some methods of sparking creativity that might be useful with your team, considering your team norms and organizational culture?
5. How fluid is the relationship between leaders and followers on your team? Are there times when the team leader must step aside to facilitate team motivation and suc- cess? Can you cite examples of this fluid dynamic between leaders and followers in current or past teams you have been involved with in your organization?
6. Consider the elements presented in this chapter that may be indicators of a need to disband a team. Have you ever been on a team or led a team that was dis- banded? For what reason? How were the team’s successes celebrated? If you as a team leader were faced with disbanding a team, what would be your strategy for adjournment?