Leadership Basics
The process of influencing people by providing purpose, direction, and motivation to accomplish a mission and improve an organization.
Answer: What is leadership?
This gives followers a reason to act in order to achieve a desired outcome.
Answer: What is purpose?
A Cadet who leads a color guard, drill team, or community service project is participating in this.
Answer: What is a leadership opportunity?
This approach claimed that leaders were born with the traits necessary to lead.
Answer: What is the Born Leaders Approach?
This leadership style involves the leader making decisions alone.
Answer: What is autocratic leadership?
These are the skills and abilities a leader uses to influence others and accomplish a mission.
Answer: What are competencies?
This involves communicating how to accomplish a mission, assigning responsibility, and ensuring followers understand the standard.
Answer: What is direction?
A Cadet may serve as a trainer or coach during this type of JROTC class.
Answer: What is Leadership Lab?
This approach studied the actions and behaviors of effective leaders because behaviors could be observed, measured, and taught.
Answer: What is the Behavior Approach?
This leadership style allows followers to participate in decision-making after the leader consults with them.
Answer: What is democratic leadership?
Leadership opportunities help Cadets build confidence and develop the ability to guide and influence others to accomplish these.
Answer: What are specific tasks or missions?
This supplies the will to do what is necessary to accomplish a mission.
Answer: What is motivation?
These are the five components of the Leadership Development Program: training, evaluating, counseling, retraining, and this.
Answer: What is re-evaluating?
This approach states that leadership effectiveness depends on the interaction between the leader’s characteristics and the situation.
Answer: What is the Contingency Approach?
This leadership style provides little or no direction and allows followers to operate with minimal interference.
Answer: What is laissez-faire leadership?
The Leadership Development Program is based on the principle that Cadets should be trained to this.
Answer: What are standards?
Leaders provide this by prioritizing tasks, assigning responsibilities, and explaining the expected standard.
Answer: What is clear direction?
The Leadership Development Program is a continuous process that includes training, evaluating, counseling, retraining, and re-evaluating. Its purpose is to develop Cadets through these types of experiences.
Answer: What are progressive experiences?
The Contingency Approach rejects the idea that there is one universal method for leading every person or group.
Answer: What is “there is no single best way to lead”?
The Army Leadership Model focuses on what a leader is and what a leader does. These two parts are called attributes and this.
Answer: What are competencies?
Evaluation is a fundamental part of training because it shows when, and to what degree, a Cadet has achieved this.
Answer: What is success?
Leaders increase motivation by understanding individual needs, aligning personal drives with team goals, and giving followers as much responsibility as they can handle.
Answer: What is developing initiative?
As Cadets progress in JROTC, instructor expectations increase while Cadets receive this to support their growth and development.
Answer: What are assessment and counseling?
The three historical eras of leadership study are Born Leaders, Behaviors, and this approach.
Answer: What is Contingency?
The Army Leadership Model identifies these three leader attributes and these three leader competencies.
Answer: What are character, presence, intellect, and lead, develop, achieve?