Chapter 2 Flashcards
What is the major responsibility of a police supervisor?
Team building
Decision making
Disciplining
Supervising
Decision making
What can cause as much harm or more than a poor decision?
Snap decision
Risky decision
Unplanned decision
No decision
No decision
What is the most important measure of leadership?
Being decisive
Having a good attitude
The ability to lead
Communication
Being decisive
What is a frequent complaint in police work?
Unfairness
Marginal supervisors
Indecisiveness
Burn out
Indecisiveness
What is the only thing worse than a bad decision?
Refusing to make a decision
Making a snap decision
Giving multiple solutions
Delegating the decision
Refusing to make a decision
As a police supervisor, what is the most critical part of your job?
Knowing when to delegate
Communicating with your subordinates
Making decisions
Training
Making decisions
What are the truly tough, risky, and confusing calls about?
People
Deployment
Training
Technological issues
People
How is your success as a police supervisor and leader measured?
Good decisions and good choices
Having the right people working with and for you
Being flexible
Timely and accurate choices
Timely and accurate choices
Our freedom and power to choose and our five intelligences, when opened, shape and drive our decisions. They are known as
Birth gifts
Free will
Mental intelligences
Being a good leader
Birth gifts
What is the essence of being a police supervisor and a leader?
Having free will
Being able to influence the choices of others
Being able to make decisions
Taking action
Being able to influence the choices of others
How do we exercise free will?
By being human
By being a leader
Through our values
Through our choices
Through our choices
What are we a product of?
Our genetics
Our choices
Our decisions
Our values
Our decisions
Why is the freedom and power to choose affirming to a police supervisor?
It exercises our free will
It excites a sense of potential and achievement
It holds us accountable
It allows us to influence others
It excites a sense of potential and achievement
Why can the freedom and power to choose make a leader anxious?
A sudden heightened awareness of responsibility
A sudden heightened awareness of accountability
It excites a sense of responsibility
It excites a sense of accountability
A sudden heightened awareness of responsibility
What does this freedom and responsibility produce?
Anxiety
Accountability
A heightened awareness of accountability
A stimulus and a need for a response
A stimulus and a need for a response
What lies in the space between the stimulus and response?
The power to choose our decisions
The power to choose our response
The power of free will
The power of our unconscious
The power to choose our response
What is functioning within this space?
Decisions about your character
Decisions about your attitude
Decisions about your values
Decisions about your situation
Decisions about your character
How a police supervisor uses his or her character within that space to evaluate the problem and make a decision determines what?
A good leader
A strength-based leader
The decisions
The quality of the decision
The quality of the decision
How do marginal police supervisors see their “space for choice”?
Important
Meaningless
Extensive
Limited
Limited
What determines the quantity and quality of your decisions?
The capacity of your space to make your decisions
The time allotted to make decisions
The manner in which you use your space
Having the opportunity to reflect and then choose your decision
The manner in which you use your space
What should each good decision start with?
Choices
Stimulus
Stop
Flexibility
Stop
How well we decide and act is highly susceptible to what influences?
Supervisors
Outside
Team leaders
Internal
Outside
How can our unconscious mind override our decision making?
Snap judgements
Snap decisions
Free will
Having a strong value system
Snap judgements
Watch your actions: they lead to _____.
Character
Habits
Words
Destiny
Habits
Which of these are included in the five intelligences?
Social
Maturity
Competency
Character
Social
How do the five intelligences shape our decisions?
By assisting us in make snap decisions
By controlling our thought process
By assisting in shaping our value system
By injecting themselves into the space
By injecting themselves into the space
When are our decisions slowed or confused?
When we overloaded
When we are overworked
When we are impaired
When we are tired
When we are impaired
What does a healthy clicking physical intelligence help produce?
Timely and accurate decisions
Timely and reliable decisions
Reliable and accurate decisions
Reliable and consistent decisions
Timely and reliable decisions
What is typically referred to as when we think or speak of “intelligence”?
Spiritual
Emotional
Mental
Physical
Mental
What most often determines our success in our career?
Mental intelligence
Emotional intelligence
Social intelligence
Physical intelligence
Emotional intelligence
What do police supervisors see as noise at work, distracting from rational decision making?
Physical weakness
Inability to communicate
Judgements
Emotions
Emotions
What is a fundamental part of who we are and how we work with others?
Emotions
Social intelligence
Mental intelligence
Communications
Emotions
When suppressed emotions flare, what does it cause?
Decreased conflict and no affect on climate or morale
Increased conflict and no affect on climate or morale
Decreased conflict and affect on climate and morale
Increased conflict and affect on climate and morale
Increased conflict and affect on climate and morale
What did Dr. Daniel Goleman discover and define?
Mental intelligence
Emotional intelligence
Social intelligence
Spiritual intelligence
Emotional intelligence
Dr. Daniel Goleman’s research found that 85% of a leader’s abilities involve ____.
Mental intelligence
Emotional intelligence
Social intelligence
Spiritual intelligence
Emotional intelligence
Which intelligence was referred to as common sense for centuries?
Mental intelligence
Emotional intelligence
Social intelligence
Spiritual intelligence
Emotional intelligence
Which intelligence is fixed at birth?
Mental intelligence
Emotional intelligence
Social intelligence
Spiritual intelligence
Mental intelligence
When expressing our emotions, the goal is to express them _____ for our advantage and for the benefit of others.
Quickly
As little as possible
Intelligently
To everyone
Intelligently
In 2008, what intelligence did Dr Goleman announce?
Mental intelligence
Emotional intelligence
Social intelligence
Spiritual intelligence
Social intelligence
What are our inner emotions?
Other- awareness
Relationship management
Social intelligence
Self-discipline
Self-discipline
What are social emotions?
Relationship management
Self-awareness
Mental intelligence
Social intelligence
Relationship management
85% of a police supervisor’s ability to lead depends on his what, which was also referred to as common sense?
Mental intelligence and emotional intelligence
Emotional intelligence and social intelligence
Social intelligence and spiritual intelligence
Spiritual intelligence and mental intelligence
Emotional intelligence and social intelligence
What represents our search for meaning and connection with something larger and more trustworthy than our own ego?
Mental intelligence
Emotional intelligence
Social intelligence
Spiritual intelligence
Spiritual intelligence
In essence, which intelligence makes us human?
Mental intelligence
Emotional intelligence
Social intelligence
Spiritual intelligence
Spiritual intelligence
What shapes our core character to build our mainstay competency, and set up our driving purpose?
Mental intelligence and physical intelligence
Emotional intelligence and social intelligence
Spiritual intelligence
All the above
All the above
What triggers the need for reliable decisions?
Character
Competency
Purpose
All the above
All the above
What must be given primetime within your space for choice?
Decisions about your character
Decisions about your competency
Decisions about your character and competency
None of the above
Decisions about your character and competency
What is the paramount operational asset?
Decisions about your character
Importance of trust
Decisions about trust
Importance of your character
Importance of trust
What is the genesis of all human relationships?
Trust
Character
Competency
All of the above
Trust
What are the primal pillars of police leadership and supervisors?
Character and trust
Trust and competency
Character and competency
Trust, character, and competency
Character and competency
Experience has shown us what is more important than who we appear to be?
Who we want to be
Who we are
Who we aspire to be
Who we pretend to be
Who we are
When was the industrial age?
1815 - 1930
1830 - 1915
1830 - 1947
1847 - 1915
1830 - 1947
How are departments building trustworthiness?
Through demonstration of character
Through demonstration of competency
Through demonstration of character and competency
Through demonstration of trust and character
Through demonstration of character and competency
How do we best measure the trustworthiness of others?
Listening to what they say
Watching what they do
Watching them lead by example
Watching them walk their talk
Watching them walk their talk
How is our character defined and our lives determined?
By what we do
By what we say
By what we want
By what we think
By what we do
The product of habits we form and choices we make about values, attitudes, and conduct is what?
Competency
Character
Trustworthiness
Value system
Character
What are the three components of a trustworthy character?
Knowledge, teamwork, and integrity
Knowledge, integrity, and maturity
Integrity, maturity, and “win-win” behavior
Maturity, “win-win” behavior, and knowledge
Integrity, maturity, and “win-win” behavior
Behaving in a manner that is grounded in sound principles,ethics, and honesty is the definition of ______.
Integrity
Maturity
Character
Competence
Integrity
What is a characteristic of being truthful?
Integrity
Honesty
Discipline
Reliable
Honesty
What word won the award for most often searched for in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary since 2006?
Integrity
Honesty
Discipline
Reliable
Integrity
What is meant by “Third Alternative”?
“Win-win”
“Win-lose”
“Lose -win”
“Lose-lose”
“Win-win”