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