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