Leadership Theory and Personality
This personality typing tool uses four colors—Red, Yellow, Green, and Blue—to help leaders understand their own dominating traits and those of their teammates
What is the 4 Colours Survey?
This type of communication is often a struggle for new leaders; it involves a sender giving information and a receiver providing a response or "feedback loop"
What is 2-way Communication?
This type of tournament design ensures that every team or player gets to play every other team at least once
What is a Round Robin?
This 5-step model for objective decision-making stands for Identify, Discuss, Evaluate, Act, and Learn
What is the IDEAL Model?
This frustrating but rewarding game required the entire class to work together to pass items in a specific silent sequence to prove they could solve problems creatively
What is The Snarful?
This complex personality matrix identifies 9 different types of people and was used to compare and contrast leadership style.
What is the Enneagram?
This 6-letter acronym for active listening stands for Face the person, Eye contact, avoid Distractions, Ask questions, Non-verbal cues, and avoid Interrupting
What is FEDANI?
This is a live document used by the LEAD team to assign specific "Jobs" and "Deadlines" to ensure no tasks are missed before event day
What is the Task Management Tracker?
According to the "Law" taught in your taxi-driver story, leaders shouldn't take it personally when frustrated people try to "dump" their anger or disappointment on them
What is the Law of the Garbage Truck?
Part 1 of the 2025 CCT requires you to design a T-shirt for next year's team that represents this specific theme
What is Inclusion and Diversity (or "Letting your light shine")?
This theory suggests that leadership is a set of specific characteristics and asks the age-old question: "Are leaders born or made?
What is Trait Theory?
These include factors like loud noise, lack of focus, or emotional "baggage" that stop a message from being heard correctly by the audience
What are Barriers to Communication?
To be effective, event leaders should use more than just announcements; they should use posters, social media, and "stunts" to hit multiple types of this
What is Marketing or Mediums?
In Tuckman’s Stages of Group Development, this is the final phase where the team wraps up activities, debriefs, and transitions out of their roles
What is Adjourning?
These "Minds On" Monday activities include play-doh, mindful coloring, and nature walks to help the team practice self-regulation
What are Mindfulness Monday Moments (MMM)?
This "visionary" style is considered the most effective for moving people toward a new common goal, but it relies heavily on the leader's ability to show empathy
What is the Authoritative style?
This "heavy hitter" of communication accounts for 55% of the message being sent to an audience
What is Body Language?
This specific document must be submitted to the Principal well in advance and identifies the target audience, goal, and materials needed for a project
What is an Event Proposal?
This method involves avoiding a conflict temporarily to give parties a chance to think through an issue, such as waiting a day before sending an angry text message
What is Cool-down time?
According to your course materials and the Stuart Saunders TEDx talk, this four-word phrase explains why a leader's small daily choices in planning have a massive impact on the school's culture
What is "Micro-decisions, Macro-impact"?
This high-intensity style focuses on performance and excellence; however, it can lead to burnout and high staff turnover if used too often
What is the Pacesetting style?
The "A" in FEDANI is a critical active listening skill that involves doing this to ensure you haven't misunderstood the sender
What is Ask questions (for clarification)?
This "moving" tournament style allows players to challenge those ranked above them to "climb" to the top of the standings
What is a Ladder Tournament?
Patrick Lencioni identifies this as the #1 dysfunction of a team; it happens when members are unwilling to be vulnerable or open with one another
What is Absence of Trust?
This conflict resolution strategy involves a neutral third party helping participants resolve their dispute without making the final judgment for them
What is Mediation?