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:

Electronegativity

A measure of an atom's ability to attract and hold electrons within a chemical bond.

Cations

Positively charged atoms.

Electrons

Subatomic particles with a negative charge, orbiting the nucleus of an atom and involved in chemical bonding and electricity.

Positive Charge

A type of electric charge, typically carried by protons, that repels other positively charged particles and attracts negatively charged particles.