When Setting the Standards for Your Team to Achieve, an Optimal

question 3

Multiple Choice

When setting the standards for your team to achieve, an optimal outcome will be achieved if you:

• A) set standards that you know they will achieve.
• B) set standards that you know they cannot achieve, but that will inspire them to improve their performance.
• C) set standards that they can achieve, but that will challenge them to improve their performance.
• D) set standards well below what they can achieve to ensure their performance exceeds the target, thus lifting the collective esteem of the team.
• E) let the team determine their own standards.

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Definitions:

Freud

A neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, known for his theories of the unconscious mind and the mechanism of repression.

Conscious

The state of being aware of and able to think about one’s own existence, sensations, thoughts, and surroundings.

Preconscious

Refers to the thoughts and feelings not in immediate awareness but can be easily brought to consciousness.

Unconscious

The part of the mind that contains thoughts, memories, and desires not within the realm of conscious awareness but that influence behavior and emotions.