Case: As Chris came into work on Friday morning, she thought back over the last few months and was quitepleased. The group had done a terrific job of specifying and developing a new product that was readyfor a beta test. Initially her team members had doubts about the new strategy and their new roles butthey had overcome those, and some real obstacles, to finish the assignment. Chris was lookingforward to sharing this with Meg.From Chris's perspective, the Friday morning meeting with Meg started off very well. Chris outlinedthe progress her team had made on the integrated budget and planning system. She spoke about howshe was managing the beta test for the program and of the positive comments she was getting fromthe district. She also talked about how effective her team was. They worked together very well, werecohesive, and made decisions easily and quickly. Chris also mentioned that a number of the teammembers had not supported the reorganization at first but despite that had invested a great deal ofeffort in making the team and project work and were now committed to the new direction for DSS. Inparticular, Chris complimented the team members on their initiative in finishing the project evenwhen they didn't have a great deal of help from the specialists in the practice groups.Meg thanked Chris for all the hard work on the project and mentioned that she had heard verypositive things about Chris's leadership from members of the Southwest Region team. Meg thenshifted the conversation and asked Chris for a report about the types of services districts in her regionmight be looking for DSS to provide in the future and whether some of the other projects the DSSSeptember 10, 20108 regional teams were working on would be of interest to the districts. Chris responded that she had ageneral idea of what the other teams had been working on but did not feel she had sufficientinformation to present them to districts at this time. She went on to say that her team had focused ontheir project and that the plan was for them to go out and meet with all districts in the region after theproject was in a beta test so that they would have something specific to discuss. She reassured Megthat although she did not have a clear answer to the question right now, she would in the near future.Meg