1. This question is a debate of the leader's effectiveness with high-performance teams. Write a brief essay elaborating on the five elements leaders provide that contribute to a high performance team and how these elements relate to the multiple-linkage model. Your response should be at least 500 words in length.

2. All teams at one time or another will have deficiencies. Leaders must patrol these deficiencies and be the first to take the needed corrective action. How the leader responds to discrepancies is an indicator of trust and respect among the entire team. The multiple-linkage model lists behaviors a leader can take to improve a deficiency in the six mediating variables (task commitment, ability and role clarity, organization of work, cooperation and mutual trust, resources and support, and external coordination). Choose one variable, and write a brief essay explaining how the leader can improve the deficiency. Your response should be at least 500 words in length.