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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. 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
Leadership Styles
Mid-Management
Leadership
Coaching
2. 1. Self-awareness 2. Self-regulation 3. Motivation 4. Empathy 5. Social Skill
Pacesetting
Strategic
Characteristics of Leaders
Top Management
3. Providing extrensic awards may...
Coercive
Social Skill
Reduce intrinsic motivation in some cases
Tyrant
4. A group of people working harmoniously together to effectively achieve a common goal
Conflict-resolution skills
Autocratic Leader
Motivation
Team
5. Obtaining - training - and compensating employees
Tyrant
Management
Controlling
Staffing
6. Vision - Communication - Trust - Self-Management
7. The ability to understand people's emotional makeup
Staffing
Coaching
Empathy
Negotiation skills
8. 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
Humility
Leader
Energizing Difficult People
Organizing
9. The quality or condition of being humble; modest opinion or estimate of one's own importance - rank - etc.
Warren Bennis' Leadership Competencies
Humility
Self-regulation
Organizing
10. 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
Top Management
Implementing
Pacesetting
Authoritative
11. 1. Communication skills 2. Interpersonal skills 3. Conflict-resolution skills 4. Negotiation skills 5. Motivational skills
Controlling
Skills of successful leaders
Communication skills
Authoritative
12. The combination of tactical and strategic management
Coercive
Democratic Leader
Empathy
Mixed
13. The arrangement of resources in order to meet goals
Communication skills
Democratic Leader
Organizing
Social Skill
14. One who includes employees in making decisions
Tyrant
Management Style
Democratic Leader
Open Leader
15. Determining to what extent the business is accomplishing the goals
Strategic
Controlling
Networking
Open/Laissez-Faire Leader
16. To speak and write persuasively
Controlling
Communication skills
Charisma
Coaching
17. 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
Supervisors
Motivating Others
Skills of successful leaders
18. A system of moral principles
Ethics
Implementing
Self-regulation
Autocratic Leader
19. 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
Skills of successful leaders
Coercive
Authoritative
Charisma
20. To handle friction and inevitable tensions - - short-term - 'fighting fires'
Self-Disciplined
Open/Laissez-Faire Leader
Conflict-resolution skills
Controlling
21. An introductory act or step; leading action
Initiative
Conflict-resolution skills
Coaching
Strategic
22. 1. Coercive 2. Authoritative 3. Affiliative 4. Democratic 5. Pacesetting 6. Coaching
Authoritative
Empathy
Leadership Styles
Coaching
23. To bring different groups together in order to reach mutually agreeable goals
Negotiation skills
Characteristics of Leaders
Conflict-resolution skills
Motivation
24. Adherence to moral and ethical principles; soundless of moral character; honestly.
Planning
Integrity
Coaching
Communication skills
25. Managers are less directive and involve employees in the decision-making
Tactical
Affiliative
Organizing
Strategic
26. 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
Communication skills
Leadership Styles
Authoritative
Social Skill
27. Executives responsible for the direction and success of the entire business
Top Management
Objectivity
Interpersonal skills
Coaching
28. One who gives little or no direction to employees
Negotiation skills
Open/Laissez-Faire Leader
Self-regulation
Emotional/Social Intelligence
29. Used when a leader needs to give direct - clear - and precise orders and makes decision
Leadership Styles
Autocratic Leader
Mid-Management
Open/Laissez-Faire Leader
30. 1. Be consistent 2. Be passionate 3. Provide feedback 4. Make communication two-way 5. Issue calls in action 6. Choose media wisely
Coercive
Mid-Management
Motivating Others
Keys to succesfull communication
31. The ability to manage relationships - build networks - and find common ground
Decisive
Social Skill
Coercive
Motivating Others
32. One who tries to figure out how to orchestrate people in order to get things done ...has very good social skills
Leader
Motivation
Management
Levels in the Affective Domain
33. 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.
Leadership
Motivation
Planning
Integrity
34. 1. Self mastery - how you manage/master yourself. 2. You feel chemistry with person
Negotiation skills
Mid-Management
Motivation
Emotional/Social Intelligence
35. Directive and controlling style of management
Planning
Characteristics of Leaders
Tactical
Ethics
36. Having suitable or sufficient skill - knowledge - experience - etc. - for some purpose.
Motivational skills
Competent
Networking
Staffing
37. Analyzing of information - setting goals - and making decisions about what needs to be done
Planning
Motivational skills
Open/Laissez-Faire Leader
Management
38. First level of management; responsible for the work of a group of employees
Supervisors
Self-awareness
Planning
Empathy
39. Having the power or quality of deciding; putting an end to controversy.
Supervisors
Energizing Difficult People
Negotiation skills
Decisive
40. The ability to pursue goals with energy and persistence - for reasons that go beyond money or status
Objectivity
Management
Keys to succesfull communication
Motivation
41. The process of accomplishing the goals of an organization through the effective use of people and other resources
Management
Objectivity
Decisive
Strategic
42. Discipline and training of oneself - usually for improvement.
Mixed
Self-Disciplined
Reduce intrinsic motivation in some cases
Objectivity
43. A leader without ethics
Interpersonal skills
Tyrant
Ethics
Staffing
44. External Factors: Benefits - working conditions - salary - etc. Internal Factors: Achievement - feedback - responsibility
Competent
Democratic Leader
Affiliative
Motivating Others
45. A spiritual power or personal quality that gives an individual influence or authority over large numbers of people
Charisma
Self-Disciplined
Emotional/Social Intelligence
Keys to succesfull communication
46. The ability to recognize and understand your moods - emotions - and drives as well as their effect on others
Levels in the Affective Domain
Self-awareness
Objectivity
Competent
47. Judgment based on observable experience and uninfluenced by emotions or personal prejudices.
Objectivity
Mixed
Open/Laissez-Faire Leader
Integrity
48. The ability to control or redirect disruptive impulses and moods - suspend judgment - and think before acting
Self-regulation
Implementing
Affiliative
Controlling
49. The ability to motivate individuals and groups to accomplish important goals
Leader
Ethics
Leadership
Mid-Management
50. Specialists in a specific area of the business
Mid-Management
Self-Disciplined
Decisive
Diversity