Chapter 1 Flashcards
What do great leaders capitalize on?
a. Self-discipline
b. Authority
c. Strengths
d. Talents
c. Strengths
Great leaders who know their key signature strengths are ______.
a. Strong
b. Strength-based leaders
c. Self-disciplined
d. Successful
c. self-disciplined
When do we forfeit the opportunity to be a winner?
a. Fixate on our shortcomings
b. Focus on our strengths
c. Delegate decisions
d. Lack conventional wisdom
a. Fixate on our shortcomings
What do we devote more time to?
a. Weaknesses
b. Strengths
c. Shortcomings
d. Decision making
c. Shortcomings
What’s a myth that impeded and confused someone’s effort to be a strength-based leader?
a. College-educated people are unable to do police work.
b. Your team needs you to put aside your individual strengths
c. We become more like ourselves
d. Women cannot perform patrol duties
b. Your team needs you to put aside your individual strengths
Which myth is most common?
a. As we grow, we change
b. College-educated people are unable to do police work
c. Your team needs you to put aside your individual strengths
d. We grow the most in areas where we’re most weak
c. Your team needs you to put aside your individual strengths
When does the entire team benefit?
a. When we become more like ourselves
b. By investing time and energy in our signature strengths
c. When we rely on our key strengths
d. When we know our own strengths
d. When we know our own strengths
What is the best definition of a leadership strength?
a. Authority to make a decision
b. Delegating the right to make a decision
c. An activity that makes you feel strong
d. Becoming more like our self
c. An activity that makes you feel strong
As a supervisor, what can you do to be a leader?
a. Recognize your shortcomings
b. Identify your strengths
c. Work hard and study
d. Know your strengths
b. Identify your strengths
As a police leader, what can you do to be a supervisor?
a. Recognize your shortcomings
b. Identify your strengths
c. Work hard and study
d. Know your strengths
c. Work hard and study
What is leading about?
a. Deployment
b. People
c. Costs
d. Physical resources
b. People
Being an effective boss requires competence in what?
a. People
b. Things
c. People and things
d. Signature strengths
c. People and things
The capacity to command is ______.
a. Supervision
b. Leadership
c. Required
d. Optional
b. Leadership
Which of the following applies to leadership?
a. Authority
b. Positional
c. Things
d. People
d. People
Who can exert leadership?
a. Supervisor
b. Someone in authority
c. Your command
d. Anyone
d. Anyone
The _______ builds teams, empowers others, emphasizes purposes, and listens. If the ______ is performing all of these functions and is a police supervisor, you are witnessing a supervisor/leader.
a. supervisor/supervisor
b. supervisor/leader
c. leader/leader
d. Leader/supervisor
c. leader/leader
The right to command is _____.
a. Supervision
c. Leadership
d. Required
c. Optional
a. Supervision
A supervisor is respected and followed by exercising their right with what?
a. Fear
b. Coercion
c. Strength
d. Care
d. Care
A supervisor is feared and avoided by exercising their right with what?
a. Fairness
b. Wisdom
c. Coercion
d. Unjust decisions
c. Coercion
What must be blended for a supervisor to become a leader?
Training and experience
Fairness and wisdom
Experience and power
Authority and power
Authority and power
What is enlightenment?
Self-awareness
Self-discipline
Intuition
Absolute power
Self-awareness
What is the crux of Drs. Drucker and Clifton’s message?
You get things by leading with your intuition and not your heart
You get things by making snap decisions and not by procrastinating
You get things by leading with your strengths and not your weaknesses
You get things by taking time with your decisions and not by snap decisions
You get things by leading with your strengths and not your weaknesses
Which two doctors are in the strength-based leadership field?
Dr Drucker and Dr Rath
Dr Drucker and Dr Clifton
Dr Rath and Dr Clifton
Dr Rath and Dr Buckingham
Dr Rath and Dr Buckingham
Who is the doctor in positive psychology?
Dr Rath
Dr Buckingham
Dr Seligman
Dr Goleman
Dr Seligman
Who is the doctor in emotional intelligence?
Dr Rath
Dr Clifton
Dr Seligman
Dr Goleman
Dr Goleman
In the survey conducted by Gallup, how many people “strongly agree” that employee engagement is positive and productive at work?
One-third
One-quarter
One-half
Two-thirds
One-third
People are how many times more likely to be engaged in their jobs if they focus on strengths?
Two
Three
Four
Six
Six
What are the chances of you being actively disengaged if your boss ignores you?
50%
40%
22%
5%
40%
What are the chances of you being actively disengaged if your boss focuses on your weakness?
40%
22%
12%
1%
22%
What are the chances of you being actively disengaged if your boss focuses on your strengths?
85%
40%
12%
1%
1%
The answer to human development is actually building on the ______ we already possess?
Signature strengths
Authority
Strengths
Power
Strengths
At what age do our basic talents remain stable?
Before age 3
At age 3
After age 3
None of the above
After age 3
How do we turn our top talents into our signature strengths?
Practice and hard work
Training and experience
Trial and error
Identifying and recognizing
Practice and hard work
A natural way of thinking, feeling, or behaving is the definition of _________.
Talent
Investment
Strength
Intuition
Talent
The time spent developing your skills and knowledge is the definition of________.
Intuition
Talent
Investment
Strength
Investment
The ability to consistently provide near perfect performance is the definition of ______.
Confidence
Character
Strength
Talent
Strength
How can you avoid major mistakes?
By using time
By simply being aware of a lesser talent
By simply being aware of your shortcomings
By recognizing your weaknesses
By simply being aware of a lesser talent
Why is excessing a strength even more dangerous?
Often you’re unaware it’s happening
You fail to request assistance
You fail to delegate
You fail to identify your basic talents
Often you’re unaware it’s happening
