Barriers Application Exercises

You are working with another person who is your peer on a project. You both were assigned different parts of the project and your part was more complex and time-consuming. You also had to support another team on a different project. As result, you have fallen behind the timeline required to meet the deadline. Your peer stops in to ask how things are going. What do you say?

You are the leader of a team compiling the company’s financials. One of your analysts made a data entry error, causing a major discrepancy in the quarterly report that was presented to your company’s board of directors. This was a major black eye for your department. As result, your senior leadership wants some answers on how this happened. Your boss calls you in to discuss the situation. How do you react?

You are a team leader who is working hard to implement Extreme Ownership into the culture of your team. You’ve spent the last two weeks pushing the concept hard. But the people on your team are not taking ownership when problems arise. What do you do?