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LDSH- Mod 4 Flashcards

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What is Self-Awareness?

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Being conscious of the internal aspects of ones nature

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What are blind spots?

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Characteristics or habits that people are not aware of, that limit their effectiveness and career success

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What is personality?

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The set of UNSEEN characteristics that underlie a stable pattern of behaviour.

Essentially, the unseen driving force that determines how you react in situations

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What are the big five personality dimensions? Describe each

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Extroversion: Degree to which a person is outgoing, sociable, talkative and comfortable meeting and talking to new people

Agreeableness: Degree to which a person is able to get along with others

Conscientiousness: Degree to which a person is responsible, dependable, persistent and achievement-oriented

Emotional Stability: Degree to which a person is well adjusted, calm and secure

Openness to Experience: Degree to which a person is willing to consider new ideas and try new things

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What is a Locus of Control?

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Defines whether a person places responsibility for what happens on themselves or on outside forces

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What is a High Internal Locus of Control?

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Belief that actions determine what happens to them

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What is a Hight External Locus of Control?

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Belief that outside forces determine what happens to them

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What is authoritarianism?

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The belief that power and status differences should exist in an organization

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What are values?

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Fundamental beliefs that an individual considers to be important and that have an impact on attitudes and behavior

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What is the difference between Instrumental values and End values?

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Instrumental values: Beliefs about the types of behavior that are appropriate for reaching goals

End values: Beliefs about the kind of goals or outcomes that are worth trying to pursue

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What is attitude?

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An evaluation (positive or negative) about people, events or things

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What is Theory X and Theory Y?

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Theory X: Assumption that people are basically lazy and not motivated to work and that they have a natural tendency to avoid responsibility

Theory Y: Assumption that people do not inherently dislike work and will commit themselves willingly to work that they care about

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What is perception?

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How you select, organize and interpret information to make sense out of the environment

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In terms of perceptual distortions, what is perceptual defense?

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Errors in judgement that arise from inaccuracies in the perceptual process

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In terms of perceptual distortions, what is Stereotyping?

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Tendency to assign an individual to a broad category and then attribute generalizations about the group to the individual

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In terms of perceptual distortions, what is Halo Effect?

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Overall impression of a person or situation based on one characteristic (+/-)

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In terms of perceptual distortions, what is Projection?

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Tendency to see one’s own personal traits in other people

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What are Attributions?

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Judgments about what caused a person’s behavior- either the characteristics or the situation

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What is internal attribution?

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Characteristics of the person led to the behavior

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What is external attribution?

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Situation caused the persons behavior

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What is fundamental attribution error?

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The tendency to underestimate external factors and overestimate internal factors

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What is Self-Serving Bias?

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Overestimate internal factors on success

Overestimate external factors on failure

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What is cognitive style?

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How a person perceives, processes, interprets and uses information

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In terms of patterns of thinking, what is the Left hemisphere?

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Logical, analytical thinking and linear approach to problem solving

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In terms of patterns of thinking, what is the right hemisphere?

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Creative, intuitive, values-based thought processes

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What is the whole brain concept?

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Basically, leaders need a bit of every type of thinking to succeed.

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What is the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)?

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Test that measures how individuals differ in gathering and evaluating information for solving problems and making decisions

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What are the four main groups of the MBTI?

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Introversion vs Extroversion

Sensing vs Intuition

Thinking vs Feeling

Judging vs Perceiving

29
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What is meant by leading with head and heart?

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Whole leaders use both head and heart

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What are Mental Models?

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Theories people hold about specific systems in the world and their expected behavior

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What is a Global Mindset?

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The ability of managers to deal with a wide variety of groups, organizations, cultures and characteristics

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What is Independent Thinking?

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Questioning assumptions and interpreting data and events according to ones own beliefs.

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What is mindfulness?

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State of focused attention on the present moment

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What is Intellectual Stimulation?

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Arousing followers thoughts and imaginations as well as stimulating their ability to identify and solve problems creatively

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What is open-mindedness?

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Putting aside preconceptions and suspending beliefs and opinions

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What is systems thinking?

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The ability to see the synergy of the whole rather than just the separate elements of a system

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What is Emotional Intelligence?

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A persons abilities to perceive, identify, understand and successfully manage emotions in self and others

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Why are emotions important?

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Emotions are contagious

Emotions influence performance

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What are the four components of Emotional Intelligence?

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Self awareness
Social awareness
Self management
Relationship Management

40
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What are some of the key differences between leading with love vs leading with fear

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Leading with love:

  • contemporary approach
  • more effective

Leading with fear:

  • Traditional approach
  • Powerful motivator
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What is Fear in Organizations?

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Workers can fear failure, change, personal loss, judgement and the boss

Fear creates avoidance behavior

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