Communication
This is act of fully focusing, understanding and responding thoughtfully to what someone is saying. It builds trust and ensures leaders truly understand their team.
What is active listening?
Leaders can focus on high-impact tasks, delegate effectively and meeting deadlines without burning out using this time management technique.
What is prioritization?
A leader described as this is often capable for making timely, confident decisions even with incomplete information.
What is decisive?
A leader is called this when he or she can adapt to change, adjust plans, and support others through transitions or challenges.
What is flexible?
This is the first step a leader should take when addressing a conflict between team members.
What is listen to both parties to understand the root cause?
This is a non-verbal cue that can enhance a leader's communication.
What is maintaining eye contact, nodding, open posture, or facial expressions that show engagement.
Being busy simply suggests a person is doing tasks. Being this, suggests a person is doing tasks that move goals forward.
What is productive?
What is the right information?
What is organizational change, restructuring, reorg, etc.....
This prevents favoritism and ensures both sides feel heard and fairly treated, often leading to more effective resolutions.
What is neutrality?
Leaders can help individuals improve performance and grow through this action. It can foster transparency and accountability within teams. Although, it may be difficult to provide at times.
What is Feedback?
The Pomodoro Technique is a time management technique that suggests breaking your day into focused work intervals. According to the technique, you should work for a set period of time before taking short these.
What are breaks?
Delays, lost opportunities, team frustration or decreased trust in leadership is often a consequence of this.
What is indecision?
This agile approach is technically designed for implementing IT solutions, but perhaps it's also a good mindset for a flexible leader who self reflects.
What is Test and Learn.
Name this method a leader can use to resolve a disagreement while maintaining positive relationships.
What is mediation or collaborative problem-solving?
My manager gave me vague instructions on a project, causing confusing, duplicated efforts and a missed deadline. These are examples of what?
What is poor communication?
A procrastinating leader can cause last-minute stress and missed opportunities for team input. This can affect not only deadlines but the team's what?
What is morale?
When a team is split on an approach or decision, listening, weighing both sides, making a choice aligned with the goal, and clearly explaining their rationale is often the job of who?
Who is the leader/manager?
Being flexible could mean adjusting your preferred this when it isn't working with a specific person.
What is leadership style?
Unaddressed conflicts impact team performance or company culture in this way.
What is lowering morale, reducing productivity, damaging relationships and contribute to a toxic work environment?
These solutions can help avoid misinterpretation of emails and improve clarity in written communication.
What is using bullet points, clarifying tone, avoiding jargon, rereading emails before sending, and asking for conformation of understanding?
This time management technique is used when a leader entrusts another person to accomplish a task.
What is delegate?
Making decisions confidently but remaining open to new input, adjusting when needed and admitting when change is required is an example of a leader who is decisive and this important complimentary other soft skill?
What is Open to Feedback?
In contrast to rigid leadership styles, this adaptive approach—often associated with flexibility—emphasizes tailoring leadership methods to the needs of the team and situation.
What is situational leadership?
Oh no! You notice a recurring conflict between two high performing employees. Name this conflict resolution technique that might involve weekly sit downs and open agendas.
What are 1:1s?