Leadership Styles
True/False: FRL is a continuum
False
Name the first stage of Cog's Ladder.
Polite
Name the two primary sources of conflict.
Personal and Organization
An impulse, emotion, desire or psychological need acting as incitement to action.
Motivation
What animal is a poor follower compared to?
Sheep
Name the leadership style that really isn't.
Laissez-Faire
Define Bid for Power.
Competition increases, cliques important, widest range of interaction, leadership struggle
Name three of the five styles of conflict management.
Competing (Forcing), Collaborating, Compromising, Avoiding, Accommodating
Mastery is a mindset
Mastery is pain
Mastery is an asymptote
____ followers are passive/independent and critical thinkers.
Alienated
Idealized influence, intellectual stimulation, IM, IC
Name all stages of Cog's Ladder in order.
Polite Stage
Why We're Here
Bid for Power
Constructive
Esprit
Name and describe the three attributes of personal conflict management.
Personality - i.e. authoritarian vs low self-esteem
Values - Strongly held beliefs, shared values
Perception - POV
Name and describe both types of motivation.
Intrinsic - doing something for inherent satisfaction
Extrinsic - Doing something because it leads to a separable outcome
_____'s Two Dimensional Model for followership.
Kelley
Name the leadership style where someone is rewarded for good actions.
Contingent Reward
Attitudes change to focus on group collaboration, progress is made, all members contribute, team spirit builds.
Constructive
Compare and contrast accommodating vs avoiding styles of conflict management.
Accommodating - high cooperation, low assertiveness
Avoiding - low cooperation, low assertiveness
This is a method of motivating teams that gives team members a certain amount of time during the workday to develop their own projects.
20% Time
Name three characteristics of effective followers.
Exemplifies AF Core Values, Decision maker, recognizes their contribution to the mission, committed to organization's goals, has enthusiasm, effective communicator, problem solver, flexible, competent, courageous
Transactional - focuses on results, conforms to the existing structure of an organization and measures success according to that organization's system of rewards and penalties. Transactional leaders have formal authority and positions of responsibility in an organization.
Transformational - a leadership approach that causes change in individuals and social systems. In its ideal form, it creates valuable and positive change in the followers with the end goal of developing followers into leaders.
A newly formed student team working on a semester-long project is facing conflicts over role allocation and decision-making. They are struggling to establish trust and effective communication.
Bid for Power
During a drill exercise, a cadet in AFROTC was repeatedly giving incorrect commands, causing confusion among the other cadets. When approached about the issue, the cadet became defensive and refused to acknowledge their mistakes, creating tension within the group. How would you resolve this conflict?
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Emily is an AFROTC cadet who is showing signs of low motivation. She has been struggling with the physical demands of the program, such as early morning physical training and long hours of marching and drill practice, and is feeling disconnected from her peers and the mission of the program. How would you motivate her?
Answers vary
Aristotle