1. What does “team player” mean to you? Describe an experience you had as a team member or a team leader? What worked well for the team, what didn’t, and why?

2. How do team players with diverse backgrounds and personalities help to make the team effective and ultimately successful?

3. Identify at least three of the eight approaches to building team performance that impacted your team; explain whether it was a positive or negative impact.

4. Did any of the barriers to effective teamwork exist in your team? Which ones? How did they affect the performance of the team?

5. Did this team exhibit any of Biech’s ten characteristics of successful teams? Which ones did they exhibit? Which were they lacking?