This process is a method for assessing what you are doing, why you are doing it, and what you must do to imporve an organization's performance.
What is self-assessment? (p. 2)
100
A fundamental responsibility of leadership is to make sure everybody knows, understands, and lives this.
What is the mission? (p. 13)
100
The single greatest advantage any company can acheive is _____________ ______.
What is organizational health?
Yet it is ignored by most leaders even though it is simple, free, and available to anyone who wants it. (p. 1)
100
This is a small group of people who are collectively responsible for achieving a common objective for their organization.
What is a leadership team? (p. 21).
100
The number of Newton County School System buses equipped with stop arm photo enforcement cameras.
What is twenty-five?
200
When you follow the self-assessment process through to its completion, you will have formulated this.
What is a plan? (p. 4)
200
The effective mission statement is this and sharply focused.
What is short? (p. 14)
200
An organization is ________ when it is whole, consistent, and complete, that is, when its management, operations, strategy, and culture fit together and make sense.
What is healthy or has integrity? (p. 5)
200
When it comes to discussions and decision making, there are two ways that members of teams must communicate: advocacy and _______.
What is inquiry? (p. 22)
200
A recipent of the the 2012 National Procurement Institute's 17th Annual Achivement of Excellence in Procurement Award.
What is the Procurement Department for the Newton County School System?
300
Planning is not this.
What is an event?
Planning is the continuous process of strengthening what works, and abandoning what does not, of making risk-taking decisions with the greatest knowledge of their potential effect, of setting objectives, appraising performance and results through systematic feedback, and making ongoing adjustments as conditions change. (p. 4)
300
To have an effective mission, you have to work out an exacting match of these three things.
What is opportunities, competence, and commitment?
Every good mission statement reflects all three. (p. 14)
300
A healthy organization is one that has all but eliminated ________ and _________ from its environment.
What is politics and confusion? (p. 1 - handout)
300
Name any of the five behavioral principles needed to build a cohesive leadership team.
What is trust, conflict, commitment, accountability, or results?
300
The mission of the Newton County School System.
What is to provide education excellence to all students?
400
With this, a decision doesn't need to be sold.
What is genuine participation?
With genuine participation, suggestions can be incorporated, objections addressed, and the decision itself becomes a commitment to action. (p. 5)
400
Your core mission provides guidance, not just about what to do, but equally this.
What is what not to do? (p. 18)
400
Why haven't more companies/organizations embraced and reaped the benefits of organizational health?
What is it's hard ~ it requires real work and discipline over a period of time, and it must be maintained. (p. 1 - handout)
What is it requires leaders to confront themselves, their peers, and the dysfunction within their organization with an uncommon level of honesty and persistence? (p. 2)
400
Conflict is about _______ and ideas, while accountability is about performance and behavior.
What is issues? (p. 60)
400
The best snack captain ever.
Who is Althie Chambers?
500
Self-assessment is the first action requirement of this.
What is leadership?
Self-assessment is the first action requirement of leadership: the constant resharpening, constant refocusing, never being really satisfied. And the time to do this is when you are successful. If you wait until things start to go down, then it's very difficult. (p. 6)
500
The ultimate test is not the beauty of the mission statement. The ultimate test is your ___________.
What is performance? (p. 16)
500
What are the four disciplines of healthy organzations?
What is build a cohesive leadership team, create clarity, over-communicate clarity, and reinforce clarity? (p. 2 - handout)
500
The ultimate point of building greater trust, conflict, commitment, and accountability is one thing: acheivement of _______.
What is results? (p. 65)
500
The date in 2012 for School Bus Driver Appreciation Day.