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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. Management of Attention - Management of Meaning - Mangament of Trust - Management of Self
Bennis/Nanus variant leader characteristics
Mixed
Top Management
Management
2. Determining to what extent the business is accomplishing the goals
Pacesetting
Controlling
Coaching
Motivation
3. 1. Communication skills 2. Interpersonal skills 3. Conflict-resolution skills 4. Negotiation skills 5. Motivational skills
Open Leader
Motivating Others
Leader
Skills of successful leaders
4. Managers are less directive and involve employees in the decision-making
Top Management
Motivational skills
Self-Disciplined
Strategic
5. Having the power or quality of deciding; putting an end to controversy.
Decisive
Humility
Warren Bennis' Leadership Competencies
Tyrant
6. 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
Objectivity
Team
Implementing
Diversity
7. Specialists in a specific area of the business
Planning
Integrity
Networking
Mid-Management
8. A manager who gives little or no direction to workers.
Organizing
Open Leader
Keys to succesfull communication
Diversity
9. Adherence to moral and ethical principles; soundless of moral character; honestly.
Management
Planning
Ethics
Integrity
10. One who tries to figure out how to orchestrate people in order to get things done ...has very good social skills
Empathy
Coaching
Bennis/Nanus variant leader characteristics
Leader
11. To align people who may not report to you toward a goal - 'Get them excited!'
Motivational skills
Open/Laissez-Faire Leader
Leadership Styles
Emotional/Social Intelligence
12. A spiritual power or personal quality that gives an individual influence or authority over large numbers of people
Organizing
Charisma
Pacesetting
Authoritative
13. A system of moral principles
Energizing Difficult People
Decisive
Ethics
Management Style
14. 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
Initiative
Networking
Levels in the Affective Domain
Authoritative
15. Having suitable or sufficient skill - knowledge - experience - etc. - for some purpose.
Controlling
Ethics
Competent
Motivation
16. 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
Integrity
Organizing
Affiliative
Team
17. 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.
Motivational skills
Motivation
Conflict-resolution skills
Authoritative
18. Discipline and training of oneself - usually for improvement.
Motivation
Self-Disciplined
Integrity
Warren Bennis' Leadership Competencies
19. Receiving - Responding - Valuing
Levels in the Affective Domain
Coaching
Leadership Styles
Motivation
20. External Factors: Benefits - working conditions - salary - etc. Internal Factors: Achievement - feedback - responsibility
Democratic Leader
Management
Energizing Difficult People
Motivating Others
21. Providing extrensic awards may...
Management Style
Motivational skills
Self-awareness
Reduce intrinsic motivation in some cases
22. Vision - Communication - Trust - Self-Management
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23. A leader without ethics
Strategic
Motivation
Tyrant
Skills of successful leaders
24. 1. Self-awareness 2. Self-regulation 3. Motivation 4. Empathy 5. Social Skill
Emotional/Social Intelligence
Characteristics of Leaders
Interpersonal skills
Staffing
25. An introductory act or step; leading action
Initiative
Implementing
Interpersonal skills
Open Leader
26. The ability to understand people's emotional makeup
Motivation
Management Style
Charisma
Empathy
27. The ability to control or redirect disruptive impulses and moods - suspend judgment - and think before acting
Ethics
Team
Self-regulation
Implementing
28. Used when a leader needs to give direct - clear - and precise orders and makes decision
Management Style
Affiliative
Ethics
Autocratic Leader
29. To listen and hear what people are saying and react in constructive ways (active listening).
Staffing
Affiliative
Social Skill
Interpersonal skills
30. The way a manager treats and involves employees
Affiliative
Management Style
Levels in the Affective Domain
Social Skill
31. Directing and leading people
Negotiation skills
Coercive
Implementing
Self-regulation
32. The ability to recognize and understand your moods - emotions - and drives as well as their effect on others
Self-awareness
Decisive
Motivation
Humility
33. First level of management; responsible for the work of a group of employees
Strategic
Communication skills
Objectivity
Supervisors
34. 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
Self-regulation
Coaching
Interpersonal skills
Charisma
35. The combination of tactical and strategic management
Levels in the Affective Domain
Networking
Charisma
Mixed
36. Executives responsible for the direction and success of the entire business
Organizing
Keys to succesfull communication
Affiliative
Top Management
37. To handle friction and inevitable tensions - - short-term - 'fighting fires'
Diversity
Leadership Styles
Mixed
Conflict-resolution skills
38. 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
Affiliative
Pacesetting
Leadership
Motivational skills
39. The quality or condition of being humble; modest opinion or estimate of one's own importance - rank - etc.
Humility
Networking
Diversity
Tactical
40. The ability to pursue goals with energy and persistence - for reasons that go beyond money or status
Management
Objectivity
Empathy
Motivation
41. One who gives little or no direction to employees
Autocratic Leader
Open/Laissez-Faire Leader
Management
Conflict-resolution skills
42. 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
Decisive
Networking
Energizing Difficult People
Reduce intrinsic motivation in some cases
43. 1. Be consistent 2. Be passionate 3. Provide feedback 4. Make communication two-way 5. Issue calls in action 6. Choose media wisely
Leader
Networking
Keys to succesfull communication
Warren Bennis' Leadership Competencies
44. To bring different groups together in order to reach mutually agreeable goals
Tactical
Social Skill
Negotiation skills
Emotional/Social Intelligence
45. The ability to manage relationships - build networks - and find common ground
Social Skill
Characteristics of Leaders
Autocratic Leader
Authoritative
46. One who includes employees in making decisions
Affiliative
Self-regulation
Democratic Leader
Decisive
47. 1. Self mastery - how you manage/master yourself. 2. You feel chemistry with person
Empathy
Interpersonal skills
Conflict-resolution skills
Emotional/Social Intelligence
48. Obtaining - training - and compensating employees
Implementing
Pacesetting
Staffing
Diversity
49. The ability to motivate individuals and groups to accomplish important goals
Conflict-resolution skills
Leadership
Communication skills
Initiative
50. Judgment based on observable experience and uninfluenced by emotions or personal prejudices.
Controlling
Strategic
Autocratic Leader
Objectivity