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Leadership And Motivation
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soft-skills
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Directive and controlling style of management
Team
Leadership Styles
Self-regulation
Tactical
2. This style expects excellence and self-direction. It works best for highly skilled and motivated people who work well on their own. Other people - however - may feel overwhelmed by a pacesetting leader's demands for excellence. Their self-esteem - tr
Pacesetting
Mid-Management
Coaching
Motivating Others
3. The ability to manage relationships - build networks - and find common ground
Reduce intrinsic motivation in some cases
Integrity
Social Skill
Keys to succesfull communication
4. First level of management; responsible for the work of a group of employees
Coaching
Affiliative
Pacesetting
Supervisors
5. Feature of a mixed workforce that provides a wide range of abilities - experience - knowledge - and strengths due to its heterogeneity in age - background - ethnicity - physical abilities - political and religious beliefs - sex - and other attributes
Affiliative
Diversity
Keys to succesfull communication
Team
6. Management of Attention - Management of Meaning - Mangament of Trust - Management of Self
Mid-Management
Authoritative
Leadership Styles
Bennis/Nanus variant leader characteristics
7. The ability to motivate individuals and groups to accomplish important goals
Self-Disciplined
Leadership
Supervisors
Competent
8. This 'people-first' style engenders the creation of emotional bonds and team harmony. It is best used when team coherence is important or in times of low employee morale. But this approach's focus on praise may permit poor performance among employees
Coercive
Affiliative
Warren Bennis' Leadership Competencies
Open/Laissez-Faire Leader
9. Directing and leading people
Initiative
Mid-Management
Characteristics of Leaders
Implementing
10. The ability to pursue goals with energy and persistence - for reasons that go beyond money or status
Motivation
Objectivity
Open Leader
Motivational skills
11. The ability to control or redirect disruptive impulses and moods - suspend judgment - and think before acting
Social Skill
Authoritative
Management Style
Self-regulation
12. One who gives little or no direction to employees
Organizing
Open/Laissez-Faire Leader
Motivating Others
Objectivity
13. This style mobilizes people toward a vision. Specifically - it provides an overarching goal - but gives others the freedom to choose their own way of reaching it. This approach is most effective when a business is at sea and needs direction - or duri
Integrity
Reduce intrinsic motivation in some cases
Pacesetting
Authoritative
14. Adherence to moral and ethical principles; soundless of moral character; honestly.
Team
Integrity
Motivational skills
Humility
15. 1. Coercive 2. Authoritative 3. Affiliative 4. Democratic 5. Pacesetting 6. Coaching
Implementing
Tyrant
Coaching
Leadership Styles
16. One who tries to figure out how to orchestrate people in order to get things done ...has very good social skills
Leader
Democratic Leader
Team
Levels in the Affective Domain
17. Receiving - Responding - Valuing
Tactical
Staffing
Self-awareness
Levels in the Affective Domain
18. One who includes employees in making decisions
Implementing
Democratic Leader
Self-Disciplined
Affiliative
19. Executives responsible for the direction and success of the entire business
Controlling
Top Management
Open Leader
Warren Bennis' Leadership Competencies
20. The arrangement of resources in order to meet goals
Supervisors
Communication skills
Organizing
Affiliative
21. 1. Be consistent 2. Be passionate 3. Provide feedback 4. Make communication two-way 5. Issue calls in action 6. Choose media wisely
Keys to succesfull communication
Autocratic Leader
Tactical
Motivational skills
22. The ability to understand people's emotional makeup
Empathy
Initiative
Communication skills
Mixed
23. To speak and write persuasively
Empathy
Mixed
Communication skills
Controlling
24. Used when a leader needs to give direct - clear - and precise orders and makes decision
Autocratic Leader
Coaching
Reduce intrinsic motivation in some cases
Warren Bennis' Leadership Competencies
25. A manager who gives little or no direction to workers.
Controlling
Motivational skills
Open Leader
Management
26. The process of accomplishing the goals of an organization through the effective use of people and other resources
Team
Management
Motivating Others
Management Style
27. Obtaining - training - and compensating employees
Integrity
Staffing
Motivation
Self-regulation
28. To bring different groups together in order to reach mutually agreeable goals
Management
Conflict-resolution skills
Negotiation skills
Self-regulation
29. To listen and hear what people are saying and react in constructive ways (active listening).
Self-Disciplined
Humility
Interpersonal skills
Energizing Difficult People
30. External Factors: Benefits - working conditions - salary - etc. Internal Factors: Achievement - feedback - responsibility
Open Leader
Coercive
Motivating Others
Charisma
31. Vision - Communication - Trust - Self-Management
32. Determining to what extent the business is accomplishing the goals
Motivating Others
Leader
Organizing
Controlling
33. Managers are less directive and involve employees in the decision-making
Strategic
Social Skill
Charisma
Decisive
34. A group of people working harmoniously together to effectively achieve a common goal
Interpersonal skills
Mid-Management
Team
Motivating Others
35. To handle friction and inevitable tensions - - short-term - 'fighting fires'
Motivation
Communication skills
Conflict-resolution skills
Emotional/Social Intelligence
36. Having the power or quality of deciding; putting an end to controversy.
Decisive
Objectivity
Management
Planning
37. To align people who may not report to you toward a goal - 'Get them excited!'
Charisma
Conflict-resolution skills
Motivational skills
Motivation
38. Providing extrensic awards may...
Reduce intrinsic motivation in some cases
Empathy
Skills of successful leaders
Leadership
39. This style focuses on personal development. Coaching leaders help people identify their strengths and weaknesses - and tie them to their career aspirations. While this style is highly successful with people who want to change or improve professionall
Coercive
Motivational skills
Keys to succesfull communication
Coaching
40. Analyzing of information - setting goals - and making decisions about what needs to be done
Motivation
Management Style
Interpersonal skills
Planning
41. 1. Communication skills 2. Interpersonal skills 3. Conflict-resolution skills 4. Negotiation skills 5. Motivational skills
Team
Skills of successful leaders
Humility
Warren Bennis' Leadership Competencies
42. Judgment based on observable experience and uninfluenced by emotions or personal prejudices.
Mid-Management
Self-awareness
Empathy
Objectivity
43. 1. Self mastery - how you manage/master yourself. 2. You feel chemistry with person
Controlling
Tyrant
Autocratic Leader
Emotional/Social Intelligence
44. The quality or condition of being humble; modest opinion or estimate of one's own importance - rank - etc.
Self-awareness
Humility
Self-Disciplined
Leadership Styles
45. An introductory act or step; leading action
Initiative
Management
Self-regulation
Strategic
46. Questions to ask in order to understand the employee and the problem 1. What drives the employee? 2. How are you contributing to the problem? - Consider range of outcomes - Discuss problem and reach resolution - Describe problem from your perspectiv
Open/Laissez-Faire Leader
Diversity
Tyrant
Energizing Difficult People
47. The combination of tactical and strategic management
Mid-Management
Humility
Top Management
Mixed
48. Internal and external factors that simulate desire and energy in people to be continually interested in and committed to a job - role - subject - and to exert persistent effort in attaining a goal.
Social Skill
Motivation
Democratic Leader
Ethics
49. 1. Self-awareness 2. Self-regulation 3. Motivation 4. Empathy 5. Social Skill
Social Skill
Initiative
Characteristics of Leaders
Organizing
50. Specialists in a specific area of the business
Authoritative
Staffing
Mid-Management
Motivating Others