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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. A manager who gives little or no direction to workers.
Top Management
Bennis/Nanus variant leader characteristics
Open Leader
Open/Laissez-Faire Leader
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
Keys to succesfull communication
Motivational skills
Pacesetting
Motivating Others
3. The ability to pursue goals with energy and persistence - for reasons that go beyond money or status
Motivation
Warren Bennis' Leadership Competencies
Democratic Leader
Staffing
4. 1. Self mastery - how you manage/master yourself. 2. You feel chemistry with person
Controlling
Management Style
Charisma
Emotional/Social Intelligence
5. Analyzing of information - setting goals - and making decisions about what needs to be done
Ethics
Reduce intrinsic motivation in some cases
Planning
Staffing
6. The way a manager treats and involves employees
Management Style
Self-regulation
Leadership
Decisive
7. Judgment based on observable experience and uninfluenced by emotions or personal prejudices.
Objectivity
Authoritative
Democratic Leader
Tyrant
8. Receiving - Responding - Valuing
Skills of successful leaders
Negotiation skills
Levels in the Affective Domain
Motivating Others
9. 1. Coercive 2. Authoritative 3. Affiliative 4. Democratic 5. Pacesetting 6. Coaching
Supervisors
Negotiation skills
Top Management
Leadership Styles
10. This 'do what I say' style demands immediate compliance. It is especially useful in turnaround situations - in a crisis - and with problem employees. However - using this style inhibits your organization's flexibility and can dampen employee motivati
Motivation
Objectivity
Coercive
Open/Laissez-Faire Leader
11. To bring different groups together in order to reach mutually agreeable goals
Leadership
Bennis/Nanus variant leader characteristics
Affiliative
Negotiation skills
12. Providing extrensic awards may...
Organizing
Tactical
Team
Reduce intrinsic motivation in some cases
13. External Factors: Benefits - working conditions - salary - etc. Internal Factors: Achievement - feedback - responsibility
Decisive
Pacesetting
Negotiation skills
Motivating Others
14. 1. Self-awareness 2. Self-regulation 3. Motivation 4. Empathy 5. Social Skill
Characteristics of Leaders
Staffing
Autocratic Leader
Networking
15. To listen and hear what people are saying and react in constructive ways (active listening).
Levels in the Affective Domain
Interpersonal skills
Motivational skills
Staffing
16. Management of Attention - Management of Meaning - Mangament of Trust - Management of Self
Controlling
Bennis/Nanus variant leader characteristics
Authoritative
Decisive
17. One who gives little or no direction to employees
Objectivity
Interpersonal skills
Humility
Open/Laissez-Faire Leader
18. A leader without ethics
Tyrant
Authoritative
Decisive
Motivating Others
19. Determining to what extent the business is accomplishing the goals
Controlling
Planning
Top Management
Pacesetting
20. Used when a leader needs to give direct - clear - and precise orders and makes decision
Autocratic Leader
Energizing Difficult People
Leadership
Self-awareness
21. 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
Objectivity
Energizing Difficult People
Networking
Decisive
22. One who tries to figure out how to orchestrate people in order to get things done ...has very good social skills
Authoritative
Leader
Characteristics of Leaders
Bennis/Nanus variant leader characteristics
23. Directive and controlling style of management
Tactical
Conflict-resolution skills
Communication skills
Empathy
24. 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
Team
Supervisors
Coaching
Implementing
25. A system of moral principles
Strategic
Decisive
Coaching
Ethics
26. Managers are less directive and involve employees in the decision-making
Strategic
Interpersonal skills
Objectivity
Competent
27. Creating a group of acquaintances and associates and keeping it active through regular communication for mutual benefits.
Management Style
Networking
Implementing
Communication skills
28. Specialists in a specific area of the business
Mixed
Mid-Management
Ethics
Networking
29. The ability to motivate individuals and groups to accomplish important goals
Coercive
Leadership
Keys to succesfull communication
Social Skill
30. 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
Self-Disciplined
Authoritative
Energizing Difficult People
Keys to succesfull communication
31. One who includes employees in making decisions
Levels in the Affective Domain
Democratic Leader
Bennis/Nanus variant leader characteristics
Planning
32. Having suitable or sufficient skill - knowledge - experience - etc. - for some purpose.
Levels in the Affective Domain
Competent
Social Skill
Organizing
33. First level of management; responsible for the work of a group of employees
Tyrant
Communication skills
Supervisors
Leader
34. 1. Communication skills 2. Interpersonal skills 3. Conflict-resolution skills 4. Negotiation skills 5. Motivational skills
Coercive
Top Management
Skills of successful leaders
Keys to succesfull communication
35. 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
Diversity
Motivational skills
Leadership Styles
Open Leader
36. The ability to understand people's emotional makeup
Empathy
Motivating Others
Leader
Autocratic Leader
37. To speak and write persuasively
Supervisors
Energizing Difficult People
Communication skills
Motivational skills
38. The ability to manage relationships - build networks - and find common ground
Ethics
Keys to succesfull communication
Social Skill
Strategic
39. To align people who may not report to you toward a goal - 'Get them excited!'
Motivational skills
Ethics
Leader
Planning
40. Adherence to moral and ethical principles; soundless of moral character; honestly.
Integrity
Tactical
Pacesetting
Objectivity
41. The ability to control or redirect disruptive impulses and moods - suspend judgment - and think before acting
Tyrant
Self-regulation
Autocratic Leader
Reduce intrinsic motivation in some cases
42. A group of people working harmoniously together to effectively achieve a common goal
Team
Pacesetting
Authoritative
Charisma
43. The arrangement of resources in order to meet goals
Coercive
Supervisors
Organizing
Coaching
44. 1. Be consistent 2. Be passionate 3. Provide feedback 4. Make communication two-way 5. Issue calls in action 6. Choose media wisely
Charisma
Keys to succesfull communication
Motivation
Motivating Others
45. 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
Affiliative
Characteristics of Leaders
Open/Laissez-Faire Leader
Motivating Others
46. The ability to recognize and understand your moods - emotions - and drives as well as their effect on others
Leadership Styles
Management
Affiliative
Self-awareness
47. The process of accomplishing the goals of an organization through the effective use of people and other resources
Bennis/Nanus variant leader characteristics
Objectivity
Management
Energizing Difficult People
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.
Interpersonal skills
Humility
Motivation
Management Style
49. Obtaining - training - and compensating employees
Strategic
Social Skill
Coaching
Staffing
50. A spiritual power or personal quality that gives an individual influence or authority over large numbers of people
Controlling
Motivational skills
Charisma
Empathy