Leadership Models
This leader focuses on tasks and rewards: “do this and you’ll get that.”
What is a Transactional Leader?
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
This theory is based on rewards and punishments, like training a pet or building habits.
What is Reinforcement Theory?
This top section has your name and contact details, sometimes a short summary too.
What is the Info Block?
This productivity method involves identifying your most important, and most procrastination-prone, task of the day and completing it first.
What is the "Eat the Frog" method?
This theory says people are just born to be great leaders, no training needed.
What is the Great Man Theory?
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Who is Mahatma Gandhi?
This theory by Herzberg splits motivation into “hygiene” and “motivators” factors— one prevents dissatisfaction, the other drives satisfaction.
What is the Two-Factor Theory?
This resume type focuses on abilities more than job history, great for students or career changers.
What is a skills-based or functional resume?
This type of diagram visually organizes information into a hierarchy, showing relationships among parts of a whole, often branching out from a central idea.
What is Mind Maps?
This skill helps leaders understand emotions, both their own and others.
What is Emotional Intelligence?
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This theory is about fairness — comparing what you get to what others get.
What is Equity Theory?
This interview style asks you to describe what you did in past situations using the STAR method.
What is a behavioral interview?
This decision-making tool, named after a U.S. president, helps prioritize tasks by dividing them into four categories based on urgency and importance.
What is the Eisenhower Matrix
This type of leader motivates and inspires, they transform visions.
What is a Transformational Leader?
It always seems impossible until it’s done.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
This motivation theory by Maslow is shaped like a pyramid, with needs like food at the bottom (similar to a "totem pole" of needs).
What is the Hierarchy of Needs theory?
These four main parts show up in almost every resume, like name, education, and skillsets.
What are Info Block, Education, Experience, and Skills?
This time management theory compares your daily schedule to a container filled with rocks, pebbles, sand, and water, symbolizing how you should prioritize big tasks before smaller ones.
What is "Pickle Jar" Theory
This theory says the best leadership style depends on the situation you’re in.
What is Contingency Theory?
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
This theory says people are motivated if they believe effort leads to reward.
What is Expectancy Theory?
These are 3 kinds of interviews you might have after applying, some in person, some remote.
What are phone, panel, and skills-based interviews?
According to this time management principle, the more time you allow for a task, the less effort a person will put into it
What is Parkinson's Law