How Much of a Team Player Are You?

When working on a group project for school or work, which role do you like to take on?

• Leader

• Administrator

• Second in command

• Team member

When at a restaurant, do you ask for separate bills?

• No

• It depends on who I'm dining with

• I like to pay for everyone

• Yes

A team member has repeatedly called in sick. How do you handle the situation?

• Just concentrate on your work

• Take the initiative and kick the person off the team

• Discuss the situation with the rest of your team

• Start calling in sick yourself

Select what you value the most out of the options below.

• Success

• Money

• Family

• Friendship

You suggest an idea to your group but they all agree to go with another team member's suggestion instead. How do you react?

• Happily go along with what the rest of the group does

• Continue to argue that your idea is better

• Pout, scream or cry

• Leave the group/team

You feel as though you contributed more to a project than other members of the team. What do you do?

• Berate the rest of your team for being lazy

• Don't work as hard the next time you are in a group/team

• Make sure everyone knows that you did all the work

• Just accept that your group didn't help and move on

Select the statement which you feel is most true about you.

• I'm smarter than most people

• I follow directions well

• I think outside the box

• I can help explain things to others

Someone in your group or team gives out an opinion that you disagree with. How do you handle the situation?

• Say you agree with the person even if you don't

• Calmly point out flaws in their idea

• Make fun of the person for their dumb suggestion

• Start rumors about that person and try to have them kicked off the team

Your team is awarded $1000 for first prize. You feel you did most of the work, however. How do you handle the situation?

• Keep the $1000 for yourself

• Ask your group what they feel a "fair" split of the prize money should be

• Let the rest of the group have the money, you have the satisfaction from a job well done

• Split up the prize money equally

One of your teammates or group members is really struggling with their role on the team. How do you handle the situation?

• Just don't give that person any important assignments to work on

• Work closely with the person to help them get better

• Make fun of the person

• Kick them off the team

One member of your team is being disruptive to others and not helping. How do you handle the situation?

• Ignore the situation

• Kick the person off the team

• Calmly explain to this person that they are being disruptive

• Ask the rest of the group what they feel should be done

You are certain that your team is going to fail in its project or game. How do you respond?

• Have a group discussion about how you can do better

• Take on extra work yourself to help improve the group's chances of success

• Single out people in the group who have no contributed

• Leave the group and blame everyone else for its failures

You like the people on a different team better than the people on your current team. How do you handle the situation?

• Work on making your team better

• Leave your team and join the other team

• Berate your team for not being good enough

• Do nothing at all

After your project has been turned in/your game is over, your team won or received a high grade. How do you handle the situation?

• Explain to your team how they could have done even better

• Take all the credit

• Take none of the credit

• Praise the rest of your team

After your project has been turned in/your game is over, your team lost or failed. How do you handle the situation?

• Leave the group and never look back

• Take all of the blame

• Explain to your team how they could have done better

• Place all of the blame on others