course 15 vol 1 Flashcards
Are models of discipline, are fit, are resilient, understand the high expectations, seek further understanding of military art and science, demonstrate support for Air Force subculture, and have zero tolerance for unlawful discrimination
Graduate attributes
Air force core values, AFI 36-2618 the enlisted force structure, usaf doctrine , EPME
EPME pillars
Prepare technical sergeants to be professional, we’re fighting airmen who can lead and manage Air Force units in employment of air, space, and cyberspace power.
NCOA Mission statement
Identify the specific skills that will be developed at all officer and enlisted PME schools
PME objectives
The manner in which you deal with things emotionally. It is the impact of one’s attitude or ability to value, appreciate, and motivate
Affective domain
Mean suitable for a particular person, place or condition
Appropriate
The art of analyzing and evaluating thinking with A view to improve it; critical thinking is in short self-directed, self-discipline, self monitored, and self corrective thinking
Critical thinking
Involves knowledge and the development of intellectual skills. this includes the recall or recognition of specific facts, procedural patterns, and concepts that serve in the development of intellectual abilities and skills
Cognitive domain
The process that changes the way people think, feel, or behave
Learning
Learners demonstrate when they complete that identify step of I DDP
Minimum application
Learner demonstrates when they complete the entire IDDP structuredy thinking process
Maximum application
Include main ideas and supporting details
Take Notes
Instead of memorizing, seek to understand
Study
Reinforce knowledge, build self-confidence
Practice
Indicate preparedness for summative evaluation
Formative exercises
One indicator of how well you have learned
Testing
Determine if you have met learning objectives
Summative evaluation
Apply information after graduation and continue learning
Lifelong learning
Adaptability
Strategic thinking
Negotiating
Fostering collaborative relationships
Global, regional and cultural awareness
Enterprise perspective
Diversity
Leading people
Active listening
Communicating
Operational and strategic art
Employing military capabilities
Ethical leadership
embodies airman culture
Change management
Managing organizations and resources
Thinking one demonstrates when confronted by unanticipated circumstances during the execution of a planned activity (I.E.military operation)
Adaptive thinking
Thinking that requires generative thinking (divergent thinking): the development of ideas
Analytical thinking
It is the cognitive ability to imagine and innovate
Creative thinking
Thinking that is purposeful, reasoned and goal directed involved in solving problems, formulating inferences, calculatingy likelihood, and making
Critical thinking
The practice of visionaries, those who skillfully see desired goals and outcomes through their minds eye
Future thinking
Thinking that results in efficiency, evolutionary, and revolutionary improvements and advances
Innovative thing
Ability to combine our compile various pieces of information, ideas, and concepts in new and different ways
Synthesis
Thinking that concentrates on what we know, what we need to know, and how we bridge the gap
Reflective thinking
What are the four sub skill sets of critical thinking
Investigate, create and develop, communicate, and evaluate
What does self regulation mean
Self-consciously monitoring ones cognitive activities
What is open-mindedness
Willingness to investigate viewpoints different from your own and ability to recognize when to doubt claims that do not merit such investigations
Intellectual humility
And hearing tentatively to recently acquired opinions; being prepared to examine new evidence and arguments even if such examination leads you to discover flaws in your own cherished beliefs
Free thinker
Having an independent minded being able to restrain yourself from the desire to believe because of social pressures to conform
Temperament values interpersonal interaction in close relationships
Blue
Temperament values competitiveness, hands-on work, and people who prefer this temperament work as hard as they play
Orange
Temperament values competence in themselves and others and can quickly develop content for individuals they consider incompetent
Green
Temperament are goal oriented, ready to complete any task requiring little prompting or encouragement
Gold
Ability to remove your primary lens and see others, situation, and environment through an others lens
Maturity
Personal quality where one can modify his or her behaviors to affectively interact with all temperaments
Humility
A personal characteristic that causes one to force their preferred temperament on to others
Pride
Validate each colors strength
acknowledge the unique capabilities of each temperament
Give good gifts
Treat others the way they want to be treated, and not the way you preferred to treat them
Keep your observations private
Do not label others as a gold or blue, even though you may have correctly identify their preferred temperament
Don’t stereotype others
Simply because greens are known to prefer their independence does not mean all who prefer this temperament wish to be alone
Difference between problem a and B
A. Is the actual problem that two or more individuals come together to solve
B. Encompasses all of the problems that stem from human interactions
Adaption – innovation theory is only concerned with…
Style
What is the difference between style and level
Level – refers to potential capacity and learned levels
Style – refers to how we think, our preferred cognitive approach to problem-solving, and decision-making
What is a more precise term for adaptors
More adaptive
More precise term for innovators
More innovative
Why is it important to know where you fall on the adaption – innovation continuum
How others perceive you and how you perceive them depends on where you are on the continuum in relation to their position
Why does a large gap in style offer great potential ability to solve problems
Because of cognitive diversity
What are some of the tenets these adapters exhibit concerning structure
Performer structure and more of it consensually agreed
What are some of the tendencies innovators exhibit concerning structure
Prefer less structure and can tolerate less of it consensually agreed
What are some of the tendencies adapters exhibit concerning the paradigm
Improve extend the paradigm in order to solve problems
What are some of the tendencies innovators exhibit concerning the paradigm
Challenge or break the paradigm in order to solve problems
What are the two forms of cognitive gap
- Distance between’s ones preferred style and behavior actually needed in a particular situation
- Distance in a social interaction, between the preferred styles of two people, a person in a group, or two groups
Leaders who manage_____ effectively end up with the best possible solutions
Cognitive diverse city
Organizations with only adapters or innovators quickly_____
Perish
Defective method for managing cognitive gap is through the use of
Bridgers
What is bridging
Reaching out to people in the team and helping them to be part of it so that they may contribute even if their contribution is outside mainstream
Why do we need coping behavior
Because we cannot always solve problems using our preferred style
Effective leaders create environments where they only ask for______ coping behavior most of the time and only have to ask for______ coping behavior in times of crisis
Minimum, maximum
Problem a
Problem that two or more individuals come together to solve
Level
Potential capacity: intelligence or talent
Coping behavior
Effort required to do something that is not ones preference
More adaptive or innovative
Precise terms used to describe the a – I continuum
Style
Preferred approach to problem-solving, and decision-making
Problem b
Problems that stem from human interaction
Cognitive gap number one
Distance between one’s preferred style and the behavior actually needed in a situation
Opportunity
Inappropriate or favorable time, occasion, or situation favorable for attainment of a goal
Bridger
Social rule requiring human relationship skills, and intermediate score
Cognitive gap number two
Distance in a social interaction between preferred styles
Motive
Emotion, desire, physiological need that causes one to take action
Basic principle of A-I theory
All of us are intelligent and creative, at different levels and with different styles
Trait theory
States ones leadership effectiveness is based on their intelligence, self-confidence, and integrity
Psychodynamic theory
This argues that followers and leaders are drawn to their roles and achieve success in these rolls by virtue of personality types.
Skills theory
Focuses on leaders who are emotionally intelligent and can solve problems successfully
Style Theory
This concentrates on two types of leadership tasks or production and people or relationship oriented leadership
Situational leadership theory
Identifies for styles a leader uses that are based on the subordinates development level and the situation at hand
Contingency theory
States that leaders are moved into an out a very situations based on the leader follower relationship, the leader position power, and a task structure
Path – goal theory
This theory views leaders as trailblazers, creating conditions for subordinate success