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Inspiring and Motivating Individuals Week 01 Quiz Answers

Quiz 1: Strategies for visionary leadership

Q1. Leaders improve team performance by:

• A. Creating and communicating a vision
• B. Structuring roles and responsibilities
• C. Clarifying the interdependence among team members
• D. Showing consideration for individual team members
• E. All of the above

Q2. A visionary leader has a positive impact on a firm’s financial performance.

• True
• False

Q3. When developing your vision, you must answer which question(s):

• A. Why do we do what we do?
• B. What does success look like?
• C. How must we act to ensure success?
• D. All of the above

Q4. When communicating your vision, you should take ownership by using “I” and “Me” language.

• True
• False

Q5. In your vision for your team, you should avoid referencing specific values or moral convictions.

• True
• False

Q6. When communicating your vision, it is important to:

• A. Talk loudly
• B. Speak in a consistent tone in your voice
• C. Maintain an open body posture
• D. Show little emotion
• E. Maintain
  a consistent pitch in your voice

Q7. An open body posture increases your stress hormones.

• True
• False

Q8. An open body posture increases your energy hormones.

• True
• False

Q9. You can improve your charisma by:

• A. Using stories and metaphors
• B. Asking rhetorical questions
• C. Setting high expectations
• D. Using inclusive language (we, us, our)
• E. All of the above

Q10. Non-verbals such as facial gestures and body posture account for less than 10% of communication:

• True
• False

Inspiring and Motivating Individuals Week 02 Quiz Answers

Quiz 1: Setting Effective Goals

Q1. Difficult, challenging goals always improve performance.

• True
• False

Q2. Goals improve performance by:

• Directing effort and attention toward goal-supporting activities
• Directing effort and attention away from goal-irrelevant activities
• Energizing and motivating for greater effort
• Increasing the persistence of effort
• All of the above

Q3. Stretch goals can promote unethical behavior.

• True
• False

Q4. Specific goals can promote unethical behavior.

• True
• False

Q5. Stretch goals can help increase satisfaction of the teammates.

• True
• False

Q6. SMART goals stand for:

• Sophisticated, Measurable, Actionable, Realistic, Timely
• Sagacious, Meaningful, Attainable, Responsible, Time-bound
• Standard, Meaningful, Authoritative, Realistic, Trusted
• Specific, Measurable, Agreed-Upon, Reasonable, Time-bound

Q7. Specific goals can limit creativity.

• True
• False

Q8. Specific goals can impede learning.

• True
• False

Q9. Specific goals can impede learning especially strongly in situations that are:

• Stable and predictable
• Involve many participants
• Ethically questionable
• Complex and uncertain

Q10. One of the best ways to make goals meaningful is to:

• Create goals through brainstorming with the entire team
• Cite examples of meaningful goals from other teams in discussing team goals
• Have a retreat with the team to discuss goal meaning
• Allow teammates to see how their product influences the lives of others

Inspiring and Motivating Individuals Week 03 Quiz Answers

Quiz 1: Motivation and Drivers of Performance

Q1. Increasing employee engagement results in:

• A. Higher financial profitability
• B. Enhanced customer service
• C. Reduced employee attrition
• D. Less absenteeism
• E. All of the above

Q2. Most employees are highly engaged at work.

• True
• False

Q3. According to Maslow, which human need must be met
first in order for people to be engaged and motivated?

• A. Belonging
• B. Safety
• C. Self-esteem
• D. Self-actualization
• E. Physical needs

Q4. Human needs are “born” traits, i.e., not learned over time.

• True
• False

Q5. People’s values differ greatly depending on their country of origin, nationality and culture.

• True
• False

Q6. An effective intrinsic motivator is:

• A. Job title
• B. Fear of failure
• C. Money
• D. Learning and mastery
• E. Badges and certifications

Q7. The newer Millennial generation values intrinsic motivators such as meaning at work and learning more than Baby Boomers or GenX’ers.

• True
• False

Q8. Extrinsic rewards such as money or higher job titles can be de-motivating.

• True
• False

Q9. You can increase individuals’ intrinsic motivation by:

• A. Offering them a corner office location for improved performance
• B. Demonstrating the positive impact of their work on other people
• C. Creating a financial incentive tied to performance
• D. Treating everyone in the team equally
• E. None of the above

Q10. People who make $125,000 USD are significantly happier than people who make $70,000 USD.

• True
• False

Inspiring and Motivating Individuals Week 04 Quiz Answers

Quiz 1: Aligning Rewards and Behaviors

Q1. The concept of equity suggests that:

• A. We compare our satisfaction with a job to others’
• B. We compare our levels of effort to peers’ levels of effort
• C. Our motivation is affected negatively if we receive fewer rewards per unit of effort than our peers
• D. Both B and C
• E. None of the above

Q2. To effectively apply the concept of equity in your team, it is essential that

• A. The rule of equity is satisfied on a daily basis
• B. We reduce the level of effort required for all teammates
• C. We provide mentorship for all teammates
• D. Both A and B
• E. None of the above

Q3. Seeking positive feedback and affirmation from your peers and subordinates is the best way to
enhance your standing in the team

• True
• False

Q4. If you are expecting our teammates to deliver creative ideas but reward them for meeting monthly
sales quotas, you could be:

• A. Committing fundamental attribution error
• B. Committing Folly of Rewarding A while Hoping for B
• C. Failing your fiduciary duty
• D. Engaging in unethical behavior
• E. None of the above

Q5. The most effective way to motivate your teammates in a sustainable way is by using:

• A. Negative
  Reinforcement
• B. Punishment
• C. Positive reinforcement
• D. Both
  A and C
• E. None
  of the above

Q6. Your colleague wants to motivate the team but has a limited budget to buy pastries for the five upcoming team meetings. Based on your knowledge of reinforcement schedules, you
would most likely recommend that the colleague:

• A. Bring some pastries to every meeting
• B. Bring a lot of pastries to first and fourth meetings
• C. Progressively increase the number of pastries brought to every meeting, starting with a very small amount
• D. Promise your teammates to bring a lot of pastries to the final meeting
• E. None of the above

Q7. It is often beneficial to separate a performance evaluation meeting into two separate
meetings for evaluation and development.

• True
• False

Q8. Some of the most common culprits responsible for the Folly of Rewarding A while Hoping for B include:

• A. Limited resources in organizations
• B. Fascination with objective metrics
• C. Poor coordination among teammates
• D. Strive for instant gratification
• E. Both B and D

Q9. To overcome the
illusion of transparency in communicating goals and expectations, we should:

• A. Ask questions to ensure understanding
• B. Ask people to restate the goals and expectations back to us
• C. Ask them to keep a journal documenting their reflections on the goals
• D. Both A and B
• E. None of the above

Q10. The key risk of seeking feedback on your performance from your peers and subordinates includes undermining your authority

• True
• False

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