Bull shiz

Question 1

what are 6 leadership styles

Answer 1

1. visionary
2. coaching
3. affiliative
4. democratic
5. commanding
6. pacesetting

Question 2

define visionary

Answer 2

This style effectively drives positive emotions in followers. The visionary skill set includes the ability to articulate and rally people around one common vision. These leaders encourage people to be innovative, take risks, and work collaboratively. Knowing the big picture, and how their job fits in, helps people understand what is expected of them and emphases why their job matters. The sense that everyone is working towards a shared vision builds team commitment and pride. The visionary style is considered one of the most effective and should be used most often. However, it is not effective with a team of peers who are more experienced and might see a leader’s grand vision as out of touch with the real issues of the group.

Question 3

define coaching

Answer 3

A coach helps people to identify their strengths and weaknesses. Even though coaching focuses on personal development rather than actual performance, this style often results in a positive emotional response that in turn yields better results. By having personal conversations with people, a leader can demonstrate a genuine interest in the individuals they lead. This allows leaders to motivate by connecting people’s daily activities to their long-term personal and career goals. Coaching creates an ongoing conversation that allows followers to listen to performance feedback more openly and seeing it as serving their own aspirations not just the “boss’s” interests. Coaching is
not effective when followers lack motivation or lack self-confidence. Coaching will also fail if the leader lacks the skills and sensitivity to help people along.

Question 4

define affiliative

Answer 4

This style is associated with the open sharing of emotions. These leaders tend to value people and their feelings more than performance or results. These leaders strive to keep people happy and work to increase harmony, morale and trust in an organization. By recognizing team members as people, rather than tools, such leaders build remarkable loyalty and connectedness. This style should not use alone because it can lead to poor performance if results take a back seat to feelings. Leaders may neglect to provide performance feedback that could help individuals improve. That’s why many affiliative leaders use this style in tandem with the visionary approach. Visionary leaders state mission and let people know when their work is furthering the group’s goals.

Question 5

define democratic

Answer 5

A Democratic leader builds consensus with participation. They tend to get more commitment from followers. This style works best when a leader is unsure which direction to take the organization and requires suggestions from competent team members. These leaders tend to listen well and react promptly to feedback. The drawbacks of this style are that building consensus can take time and it can result in endless meetings. The consequence of a leader who spends too much time searching for consensus is a lack of direction and confusion amongst team members. It is not useful in times of crisis when more decisiveness is required or when team members are incompetent.

Question 6

define pacesetting

Answer 6

These are leaders who expect excellence and exemplified it. This style can work extremely well in technical fields among skilled and intelligent professionals who need little direction. Pacesetting also makes sense in the early stages of organizations life when quick wins are essential. These leaders tend to be internally motivated, opportunistic and obsessive about doing things better and faster. They tend to quickly pinpoint poor performers, and if these team members can’t execute, rescue the situation themselves. However, this style should be used sparingly, in the absence of self-awareness or empathy it can lead to low motivation and mindless compliance. This style needs be combined with the visionary or affiliative styles to be effective.

Question 7

define commanding

Answer 7

This style relies on coercion, control and compliance, sometimes in the absence of explanation and praise. These leaders require tight control of a situation and may resort to threats and intimidation to get their way. Feedback tends to focus on the negative aspects of the team’s performance. It may be an effective style in crisis situations, but tends to be the least effective in most situations. Usually leads to eroded spirits, pride and a loss of intrinsic satisfaction for work. In the absence of empathy it tends to be ineffective.

Question 8

8 symptoms of groupthink

Answer 8

1. stereotyping outgroups
2. self-censorship
3. illusion of invulnerability
4. illusion of unanimity
5. assumption of morality
6. mind-blocking
7. rationalization
8. pressuring dissenters

Question 9

7 ways to avoid groupthink

Answer 9

1. Assess risks and benefits
2. Assess pros and cons of alternatives
3. Environment the encourages dissent
4. ID objectives
5. come up with alternatives
6. unbiased info processing
7. quality outcome assessment