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