Chapter 1 – Understanding Leadership
One of the core values of the class that means treating everyone with dignity, even when opinions differ.
What is Respect?
This term describes a leader’s set of values, beliefs, and expectations about people and work.
What is a leadership philosophy?
These are learned competencies that give leaders the ability to influence others and perform effectively.
What are leadership skills?
This is a mental model of an ideal future state that describes “what could be.”
What is a vision?
This is defined as the process by which an individual influences a group of people toward a common goal.
What is leadership?
This leadership skill involves understanding and sharing the feelings of others.
What is Empathy?
This management theorist developed two major theories about how managers view workers’ motivations.
Who is Douglas McGregor?
This leadership skill category focuses on working effectively with followers, peers, and supervisors.
What are interpersonal skills?
This term describes how an organization plans to achieve its vision.
What is a mission?
This theory presents the most pessimistic view of employees, assuming people dislike work and must be controlled.
What is Theory X?
This type of intelligence helps leaders understand and manage their own emotions and the emotions of others.
What is Emotional Intelligence?
This leadership style involves the leader making decisions alone with strict control over followers.
What is authoritarian leadership?
This type of leadership skill involves thinking, planning, and creating a vision or strategy for an organization.
What are conceptual skills?
Visions usually inspire this by encouraging people to move beyond the current situation to a better future.
What is change?
According to leadership research, these are the three main areas of core leadership skills.
What are administrative, interpersonal, and conceptual skills?
This Roman emperor wrote Meditations and believed leadership begins with self-discipline and moral responsibility.
Who is Marcus Aurelius?
This leadership style allows team members a high level of freedom with little direct supervision.
What is laissez-faire leadership?
This category of leadership skills includes managing people, resources, and day-to-day operations.
What are administrative skills?
This leadership expert said highly effective people “start with the end in mind.”
Who is Stephen Covey?
This leadership style gives followers a high level of freedom with little guidance from the leader.
What is laissez-faire leadership?
This leadership idea emphasizes that effective leadership starts with how we treat others and ourselves in everyday interactions.
What is leadership through respect, accountability, and collaboration?
Question:
These two theories created by Douglas McGregor describe whether managers believe workers are naturally motivated or need strict control.
What are Theory X and Theory Y?
This administrative skill refers to a leader having specialized knowledge about the work and understanding how the organization functions.
What is technical competence?
Research suggests visions should be shared by these two groups for them to be most effective.
Who are leaders and members (followers) of the organization?
This leadership concept is defined as a mental model of an ideal future state that guides direction and decision-making.
What is a vision?