Question

Which leadership function is most needed in the following scenario?

Answer 1

The correct answer is B. Discussion management

Explanation:

The word leadership refers to the process and skills necessary to guide or lead effectively to a group of people during a process or task. In the case presented this task or process is deciding where to go for the team-building retreat and implies the leader should guarantee all participants share their opinion about where to go and then look for some strategy to decide which one of the options given by the participants is the best for the purpose of the retreat which is to improve the way they work together.

In the excerpt, it can be seen the participants Evan, Allison and Mark are sharing their opinion without being inhibited, however, this situation also leads the participants to stop focusing on the possible options and  ramble which means they start talking about situations that do not help them to decide which place is the best and therefore the discussion losses the main focus. Considering this, the leader of this situation would need to guide the participants through the discussion and make sure they can express their opinion, but avoid speaking about other subjects and forgetting the purpose of the discussion, this type of guide is called discussion management. Thus, the leadership function that is needed in the scenario presented in the excerpt is B. Discussion management as the participants lost the purpose of the discussion and need to be guided during the discussion to accomplish the main purpose of it.

Answer 2

I would say that the answer is B. because they need to discuss whether or not ashe wants to skii and if she wants him to teach her how to ski