Cognitive Bias
Leadership and Teamwork
Mental Health
Time Management
Conflict Management
100

This bias causes us to seek out and favor information that confirms our existing beliefs, and discount information that does not.

What is Confirmation Bias?

100

When providing feedback, we can use leadership techniques in speaking to present it as this.

What is a gift?

100

We experience this when taking on challenges and navigating unfamiliar or threatening situations.

What is stress?

100

Another term for multitasking.

What is switch-tasking?

100

This common role in conflict can be described as that of a Villain whose motivations we agree with.

What is a Hero?

200

This cognitive bias can cause us to believe that others agree with us more strongly than they actually do.

What is the False-Consensus Effect?

200

Individuals in teams that we lead fall into this area in our Circles of Control

What is the Circle of Influence?
200

Elements of this include an adrenaline rush, an internal push to action, and a subjective experience of distress or motivation.

What is a strong emotional response?

200

Unlike multitasking, this practice involves moving between tasks while still devoting attention to only one task at a time.

What is Back-tasking?

200

We can step out of this role by affirming our agency and playing an active role in resolving our conflicts.

What is a Victim?

300

This effect causes us to place a person on a moral pedestal and dismiss their shortcomings, especially when our perspective is influenced by superficial factors like appearance and celebrity status.

What is the Halo Effect?

300

This perspective on leadership posited that leaders are born and not made, and can only come from a narrow category of people.

What is Great Man Theory?

300

We can use this tool to evaluate what outside factors may be influencing our emotional state and decision-making.

What is H.A.L.T.?

300
This technique involves using timer-structured work and break times for productivity.

What is the Pomodoro Technique?

300

When a mutually beneficial solution cannot be reached in conflict, we can focus on this objective instead.

What is harm reduction?

400

This bias stems from our tendency to place more importance on the first piece of information we encounter, especially when presented with a list.

What is Anchoring Bias?

400

This stage in the team-formation process involves coming up against practical challenges and re-evaluating the group process.

What is Storming?

400
This practice involves evaluating our internal self-talk and removing judgmental or value-based sentiments in favor of neutral to positive perspective.

What is positive reframing?

400

The amount of time and effort we are able to apply to a task is determined by this kind of resource.

What are Attentional Resources?

400

Before speaking during conflict, we can use these tools to evaluate our response.

What are T.H.I.N.K. and C.A.L.M.?

500
This cognitive distortion causes us to believe that we are smarter or more capable than we truly are because we do not have the knowledge needed to recognize the gaps in our skills.

What is the Dunning-Kruger Effect?

500

Rather than lead from the background, or from "on-high," effective leaders often lead from this location.

What is Leading from the Center?

500

Lowering emotional reactivity involves creating space between observation/experience, and this.

What is reaction/response?

500

This practice involves deliberately prioritizing activities like sleep, exercise, creative expression, and mindfulness. 

What is deliberate self-care?

500

Our gratitude, our sleep, our self-talk, and our body language are all elements of this.

What is the Circle of Control?
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