You are on a job site with a group of peers when you see a safety issue that needs immediate intervention. You aren't in charge but you don't see anyone else taking action. What do you do? *

1. Call your boss and ask permission to intervene

2. Let someone else step up and make the right call

3. Take no action but know what happened in order to file a report

4. Step in and lead to prevent a safety incident

You are a Junior leader on the team. you see an immediate tactical call that, if made, could help the team get moving in the right direction on a critical project. But your boss, who is responsible for making these calls, is at a leadership off site and unavailable. This tactical call is above your pay grade. What do you do? *

1. Contact your next available senior leader in the chain of command and make a recommendation on how to solve the problem

2. Contact the next available senior leader in the chain of command and ask them what they think you should do

3. Don't risk sticking your neck out to make the call

4. Step up and lead, make the call, and carry on with your mission

You are in charge of a team tasked with developing a new product. One of your team members contacts you about a problem they encountered and they are looking for some guidance on how to solve it. The team member summarizes the problem, then asks you, "How should we proceed, boss? What do you want to do?" How do you answer *

1. Tell them you don't have time for this

2. Ask them what they think is the best course of action

3. Explain the precise action that you implement

4. Tell them to just handle it

Decentralized command means, simply that *

1. Junior leaders should be allowed to do whatever they want without oversight

2. Everyone waits for orders to execute

3. Everyone leads

4. Only the senior leader makes decisions

In order to lead with decentralized command, Junior leaders and team members must understand *

1. Why

2. Lead

3. What

4. How

In order to lead with decentralized command, junior leaders and team members must understand *

1. They have the authority to make whatever decision they see fit without restriction

2. There's no need to communicate up the chain when problems get solved

3. The strategic mission, all the commander's intent, is unimportant

4. The parameters within which they can execute

In dynamic situations, when you can see immediate problems that need to get solved, it is helpful to your boss and your team to ask "What do you need me to do?" *

1. Yes

2. No

When you determine a solution to a problem you've encountered, but the solution is above your pay grade to execute (outside your roles and responsibilities), what should you do? *

1. Wait for specific direction from your chain of command

2. Don't stick your neck our if it's above your paygrade

3. Make a recommendation up the chain of command with how to solve the problem

4. Be Default: Aggressive and execute any way to ensure the team wins

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