You’ve just accepted a new project management assignment. The project is for a customer in a foreign country. You’ve requested a business analyst and two other project team members from the country the customer resides in to participate on your team. The remaining team members are from your country. You know that the best way to ensure that the project team doesn’t get bogged down in cultural differences and hold up project progress is to do which of the following?

A. Perform team-building exercises using videoconferencing to allow team members to get to know each other and get to the performing stage of team development as soon as possible.

B. Require project team members to read and sign the organization’s diversity policy.

C. Establish your role as project manager as the first order of business and require compliance with company policies.

D. Provide diversity training for all the team members to make them aware of cultural differences and teach them to function effectively as a team despite these differences.