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