Leadership Traits
A distinguished personal quality.
What is a trait?
Behaviors of leaders, focusing on what leaders do and how they act.
What is leadership style?
The strengths and abilities individuals demonstrate that help to oversee processes, guide initiatives and steer their employees toward the achievement of goals.
What is leadership skills?
Task leadership in which the leader organizes work, defines role responsibilities, and schedules work activities.
What is initiating structure?
The process of incorporating differing individuals into a group or an organization.
What is Inclusion?
A trait that is positive feeling about oneself and one's ability to succeed.
What is confidence?
A style of leadership in which leaders treat followers as fully capable of doing work on their own and work with followers, trying hard to treat everyone fairly, without putting themselves above followers
What is Democratic leadership style?
Capabilities that involve working with concepts and ideas, the thinking or cognitive aspects of leadership.
What is conceptual skills?
A relationship leadership behavior in which the leader creates camaraderie, respect, trust, and regard with followers.
What is consideration behavior?
The practice or quality of including or involving people from a range of different social and ethnic backgrounds and of different genders, sexual orientations, etc.
What is Diversity?
A process whereby an individual influences a group of individuals to achieve a common goal
What is leadership?
A leadership style in which a leader sets clear standards of performance and makes rules and regulations clear for others.
What is Directive Leadership?
One’s cognitive ability to take corrective action in a problem situation in order to meet desired objectives.
What are problem-solving skills?
Leadership that is focused primarily on the well-being of followers, how they relate to each other, and the atmosphere in which they work.
What is relationship-oriented leadership?
An advantage held by a person or group that is based on age, race, ethnicity, gender, class, or some other cultural dimension, which gives those who have it power over those who don’t.
What is Privilege?
A trait for being focused and attentive to tasks; showing initiative, persistence, and drive
What is determination?
A style of leadership, sometimes labeled nonleadership, in which leaders ignore workers and their work motivations and engage in minimal influence.
What is Laissez-Faire Leadership style?
A skill with the ability to help a leader work effectively with followers, peers, and superiors to accomplish the organization's goals
What is interpersonal skills?
Unique habits regarding work and play, which have been ingrained over many years and influence one's current style.
What is personal style?
A fixed belief held by an individual that classifies a group of people with a similar characteristic as alike.
What are stereotypes?
Broad categories of personality traits (openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism).
What are the “Big Five” Personality Factors?
A style of leadership in which leaders perceive followers as needing a direction and need to control followers and what they do.
What is Authoritarian leadership?
A conceptual skill, the cognitive ability to think and consider ideas to develop effective strategies for a group or an organization.
What is strategic planning?
Leadership that is focused predominantly on procedures, activities, and goal accomplishments.
What is task-oriented leadership?
The presence of, or support for the presence of, several distinct cultural or ethnic groups within a society.
What is multiculturalism?