Chapter 4: Communicating and Working in Teams

Across

2. Teams that come together usually for a social purpose.
4. A team member role who helps the team work through each step of completing a task to come up with a solution.
7. The way in which a manager or team leader leads employees or team members; there are three basic leadership styles—laissez-faire, democratic (or participatory), and autocratic.
9. Teams created for a specific and organized purpose and have an appointed leader and members are chosen based on talents and skills.
11. An informal team member role who is positive and influences others to be positive when challenges occur.
12. The ability to motivate or guide others.
13. Team member responsible for watching the clock to make sure meetings start and end on time.
14. A leadership style in which the leader determines policy, procedures, tasks, and responsibility of each team member or employee within the company.

Down

1. A formal team whose members are in different locations.
3. French for "let do" or "let it be"; the leader using this leadership style allows each group member to complete his/her task without supervision.
5. A leadership style in which the leader encourages all members of a group to participate and share ideas equally.
6. Two or more people working together to reach a goal.
7. People who can motivate and direct others and who can improve a process or situation.
8. Team member responsible for creating minutes, which is a written record of the meeting that can be used as reference for progress of completing the task.
10. An informal team member role who challenges the team to prove the solution is correct.