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Leading Teams Duke Graduate Academy Flashcards

Leadership

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What are the six leadership domains?

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What is the common knowledge effect?

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Commonly held information is more influential in group decisions compared to unique information

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What are three traits of common knowledge in teams?

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Impacts initial preferences, more likely to be repeated, likely to be introduced during group meetings.

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What do individuals in a team withhold to appear co-operative?

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Information

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Why may teams not reach their full potential?

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Because individuals do not share their unique or divergenet opinions to the group

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How can team process overcome common knowledge effect?

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Start broad and share all information available, then narrow it down.

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What are the three main types of team process?

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Transition ( about planning and approaches), Action ( Co-ordinating and back-up behaviour), Interpersonal (Project management).

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What is personal leadership?

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Demonstrates expertise, is authentic and makes dedication to team evident

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What is relational leadership?

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Showing concern, respect and understanding for team members. Can be done in part by active listening and being fair.

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What is active listening?

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Leader doesn’t interrupt, will make eye contact, respond with facial expression and visible head nodding, and will ask questions. This activates the brains reward response.

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What is contextual leadership?

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Creating a sense of belonging. Building a shared identity, shared purpose. Provides clarity and coherence in the work environment.. Shows how daily work connects to the vision

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What is inspirational leadership?

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Leader offers a compelling vision to the team

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What is supportive leadership?

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Provide a sense of security and internal support. Understands limitations and is realistic. They buffer against external forces. Creat a culture of learning, not blame, and environment yields initiative.

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What is responsible leadership?

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Encourages through analysis of pros and cons. Models ethical behaviour. Shapes the orginizational values. Yields stewardship - people feel they are contributing to the company.

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What are the two systems of thought?

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  1. Fast and initiative processes. 2. Slower and more analytical
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What is bounded rationality?

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It is the idea that rationality is limited when individuals make decisions, and under these limitations, rational individuals will select a decision that is satisfactory rather than optimal

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What is availability heuristic?

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When forming a judgement we rely on readily available/most recent data.

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What is anchoring in decision making?

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When the decision making process is influenced by external info. Once presented with information it can be hard to move away from its influence

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Name three issues of over-cofidence that lead to inaccurate judgements.

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Illusory supreirority (everyone think they are above average), Planning fallacy (underestimating time to completion), comparitive optimism effects ( this won’t happen to me).

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How to reduce planning fallacy in a team?

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Set concrete goals with specific times to hit before final deadline, use past actuals to inform time it will take, perform a pre-mortem.

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What is a pre-morten?

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Meeting bringing together stakeholders before starting a project where you imagine why the project might fail, ways the time line is at risk and making contigency plans.

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What are remedies to handle bias?

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Ask critical questions habitually, play devil’s advocate, shift to outsider perspective, use teams to generate multiple questions - team composition and process are important

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What are types of fairness perecptions related to outcomes?

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Distributive ( outcomes are fairly allocated), equity ( outcomes distrubted in proportion to contribution), Equality ( distributed equally to all), need ( distributed in proportion of need

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What are issues with distributive fariness?

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Can be infomred by self serving interpretation of fairness, which rule should apply, percieved level of contribution or need and weight on different contributions

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How to ensure distributive fariness?

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Make sure decision maker is impartial, make decision making process transparent, allow participation of all involved in decision making

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How can you create fair procedures?

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Be aware of your bias, communicate process in a clear and timely manner, give everyone a voice in the process

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What are the two main types of motivation?

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Extrinsic and intrinsic

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What are extrinsic motivations?

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Money, promotions, praise prestige

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What are intrinsic motivations?

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Satisfaction from doing the activity itself, developing new skills, feeling of mastery, curiosity

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What is controllability?

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The extent to which you can control performance through effort

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What is reliability?

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How tight is the link between performance and reward

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Why does intrinsic motivation drive team members?

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Skill variety, task identity (see completion of whole task), Task significance, Autonomy in your work, and can be negatively motivated by extrinsic feedback

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What is crisis leadership?

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Must convey a vision for challenges and what you expect outcomes to be. Must be honest to maintain credibility. Staff need to know you care about situation

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what should leadership focus on pre-crisis?

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Personal, relational, and contextual leadership

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What should leadership focue on during a crisis?

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Inspirational and supportive leadership

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What should leadership focus on post-crisis recovery?

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Personal, contextual,a nd responsible leadership

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What does social capital matter?

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It provides access for resources, improves trust and social cohesion, affords influence and increases buy in - allowing more ease to advance your goals

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What are two aspects of social capital?

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1.Direct connections. 2. Structure of your network

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What does PAGES the framework for articulating perspective stand for?

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Parts, Actions, Goals, Events, Self-Concepts

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What is nominal group technique to generate ideas?

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Individuals generate as many options as possible, all options are then pooled and this reduces social influence even more than brainstorming

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