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