At the beginning of the year, we covered the Four Stages of Leadership. A characteristic of this stage of leadership is getting things done through others.
What is Stage 3?
100
This is a mindset in which employees take personal stakeholder responsibility for the success of the organization and apply discretionary effort aligned with its goals.
What is employee engagement?
100
In scenario planning, the STEP model analyzes social, technological, economic, and this for their potential to impact your strategy. Hint: it begins with the letter P
What is political?
100
This factor of developing high-performing teams comes first.
What is goal alignment, or "thrust."
100
"Look first, use the arc, stay awhile"
What is Movement?
200
This statement combines your values, talents, and passions, and becomes your "North Star" in times of ambiguity.
What is "Core Purpose?"
200
Improving these skills involves helping others to make their thinking visible, and/or drawing out their beliefs and conclusions. Hint: it's the opposite of "advocacy"
What are "inquiry" or questioning skills?
200
This approach for developing strategy strives to create completely new areas or criteria for competition--also known as "white space." Hint: It begins with a color
What is Blue Ocean Strategy?
200
Remember the factors of a high-performing team: Thrust, Trust, Talent, Teaming and Task.
A team that creates a straightforward and truthful environment with open communication demonstrates this factor of high-performing teams.
What is trust?
200
Position your hands so that they are between your chin and your waist and use to support your message.
What are gestures?
300
This is how people see you as a leader, how people think and talk about you. It's based on your reputation. You created a logo to represent it.
What is your leadership brand?
300
The development pipeline consists of 5 stages.
Insight, Motivation, Capabilities, Real-world Practice, Accountability
Which of these stages is most commonly missing in the workplace, preventing people or systems from truly changing?
What is Motivation?
300
The McKinsey 7S model enables you to think about execution holistically by looking at a number of interrelated factors, including strategy, staffing, shared values, style, and these three others.
What are structure, systems and skills?
300
Remember the factors of a high-performing team: Thrust, Trust, Talent, Teaming and Task.
Ensuring that team members contribute in a way that best matches their skills demonstrates this factor of high-performing teams.
What is talent?
300
Vary your pace, volume, and pitch.
What is voice?
400
A person who is self-aware, comfortable in his or her own skin, and consistent at home and at work is said to possess this quality. It is the opposite of "fake."
What is authenticity?
400
People with this career orientation value loyalty, reliability, and predictability.
What is Security?
400
In communicating about change, it's helpful to utilize the "4 P's": Picture, Plan, Part to Play, and this, which answers the question why.
What is Purpose?
400
When a person gets defensive during feedback, it's helpful to use a contrasting statement, consisting of what you do want, and this...
What is what you DON'T want?
400
Sentence or thought, 3-6 seconds in length, random, include everyone.
What is eye contact?
500
Accommodate, collaborate, avoid, advocate are examples of these.
What are the conflict styles?
500
This coaching model consists of 4 categories, beginning with goals.
What is the GROW model?
500
In leading change, managers typically stay in the rational, cognitive domain, ignoring this other, more important domain.
What is the emotional domain?
500
In sharing feedback with a team member, it's important to start with this--and you'd better be specific!
What are your observations (or facts).
500
To enliven your presentation, use SHARPS, which might include one of these.
What are stories, humor, analogy, pictures, references or quotes?