Leadership traits, behaviors, and skills
Contemporary approach to leadership
Power & Influence
Followership
Class experience
100

This model, often used to describe the fundamental traits that influence an individual's behavior, includes Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism.

What is the Big Five personality? 

100

is leadership style focuses on the exchanges between leader and followers, where leaders use rewards and punishments to achieve compliance and performance objectives.

What is transactional leadership?

100

This is the ability of one person or department in an organization to influence other people to bring about desired outcomes

What is Power?

100

This theory, discussed in week 4, argues that the best leaders are the ones that can adjust their leadership styles to different employee levels. 

What is SLM?

100

This leader, named to Forbes 30 under 30, gave a presentation in Week 5 discussing her leadership journey at Unilever, L'Oreal and VOCO. 

Who is Ms. Thanh Huyen Luu?

200

These two renowned universities conducted influential studies that identified task-oriented and relationship-oriented leadership behaviors, significantly shaping modern understanding of effective leadership.

What are the Michigan and Ohio State studies on leadership behaviors?

200

This leadership style is characterized by the leader's ability to inspire and motivate followers through their charm, vision, and persuasive communication skills, often leading to high levels of enthusiasm and commitment.

What is charismatic leadership?

200

Whereas power is the capacity to cause a change in a person, _____ is the degree of actual change.

What is influence? 

200

According to Kelley, this type of followers exhibits neither critical, independent thinking or active participation. 

Passive followers

200

This high-profile corporate scandal in the early 2000s involved accounting fraud and led to the bankruptcy of a major energy company, becoming a case study for the importance of ethical leadership and corporate governance.

What is the Enron case? 

300

This term refers to the personality traits of Narcissism, Machiavellianism, and Psychopathy, which are often examined in the context of destructive and unethical leadership behavior. 

What are the dark triad traits?

300

This type of leadership is characterized by the Four I's: Idealized Influence, Inspirational Motivation, Intellectual Stimulation, and Individualized Consideration. 

What is transformational leadership?

300

This framework, developed by two social psychologists, identifies five bases of power: Legitimate, Reward, Expert, Referent, and Coercive, which leaders use to influence others.

What is the French and Raven power framework?

300

According to Kelly, this type of followers use whatever style best benefits their own position. 

What are pragmatic survivors? 

300

In this module, we conducted an experiential exercise about making a decision on a new salary structure for our sales teams across the world.

What is cross-cultural leadership?

400

This group of leadership skills involves good judgment, foresight, intuition, creativity, and the ability to find meaning in ambiguous situations. 

What are conceptual skills? 

400

The key difference between transformational and charismatic leadership is that the latter only covers one of the four I's of transformational leadership.

What is inspirational motivation?

400
This demonstration was used in class to showcase the impact of different sources of power on performance and employee attitudes. 

What is "Hide the eraser"? 

400

This theory focuses on the relationship between leaders and their followers, emphasizing the role of high-quality leader-member exchanges in promoting organizational success and employee satisfaction.

What is LMX?

400

This capability enables leaders to effectively navigate and manage interactions in diverse cultural contexts, comprising cognitive, motivational, and behavioral components to understand and adapt to different cultural norms and practices.

What is cultural intelligence? 

500

Ohio State University found this type of leader behaviors has an inverse correlation with employee turnover

What are consideration behaviors? 

500

This demonstration was used in class to showcase the two broad types of leadership behaviors along with the typical responses to those behaviors. 

What is the landmine game?

500

In the digital class of this module, this case was discussed to showcase how far people will go to defer to power. 

What is the McDonald's case? 

500

 This concept, central to the Leader-Member Exchange (LMX) theory, describes how leaders differentiate between close, trusted followers who receive more support and those who are less favored and receive fewer resources.

What is in-group vs out-group members?

500

In week 6, the personal development week, this framework was introduced as a powerful tool for leaders to effectively communicate with their followers. 

What is motivating language?