SEA Flashcards
What are the 3 ingredients for effective human skills?
Levels of leader expertise
- Understand behavior
- Predict behavior
- Direct, change and influence behavior
What is behavior?
A series of activities motivated by achievement of a goal
What is an activity?
The basic unit of behavior
What are motives?
Needs, wants, drives or impulses within a person directed toward a goal
(Conscious or subconscious )
What are goals?
Hoped for rewards outside a person toward which motives are directed
What is motive strength?
The need that determines behavior
What are the 5 frustrated behaviors?
R3AF
Rationalization Regression Resignation Aggression Fixation
What are the 2 categories of activities?
- Goal-directed
- Goal activity
What are goal-directed activities?
Motivated behavior directed at reaching a goal
What is goal activity?
Satisfying the goal itself
What is the relationship between motives, goals, and activities?
Motive to reach a goal drives behavior which results in goal-directed activity leading to goal activity
What is expectancy?
The perceived probability of satisfying a need
What is availability?
The perceived limitations of the environment that affect how accessible a goal is
What are the 5 steps of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs?
- physiological
- safety (security)
- social (affiliation)
- esteem (recognition)
- Self-actualization
What are the 4 elements of the Johari window?
- known to others
- unknown to others
- known to self
- unknown to self
What is the Johari area that is known to self and known to others?
Public
What is the Johari area unknown to self but known to others?
Blind
What is the Johari area known to self but unknown to others?
Facade
What is the Johari area unknown to self and unknown to others?
Unknown
What are the 2 processes that affect the size of the Johari areas?
- feedback
- disclosure
What is the effect of feedback on the Johari window areas?
Increases the public area and shrinks the blind area
How does disclosure affect the Johari window areas?
Increases the public area and shrinks the facade
What are the 4 required roles of group facilitation?
- primary facilitator
- secondary facilitators
- timekeeper
- minute taker
What is the optional role of group facilitation?
-scribe
What are the responsibilities of the primary facilitator?
- help group free itself from internal obstacles
- focus energies
- define and accomplish common desired outcomes
- help group use efficient communication processes
- use group decision making
- protect members
What are the responsibilities of the secondary facilitators?
- alert group when straying
- handle disruptive behavior
- deter nit-picking or irrelevant details
- announce when consensus met
- halt reopening a decided-on topic (halting)
- seek information from others
What is the responsibility of the timekeeper?
- Monitor the time it takes for group to accomplish tasks.
- provide updates concerning time spent
What is the responsibility of the minute taker?
Take notes
- decision agreements
- action items
What is the responsibility of the scribe?
Write on flip charts
What are the 3 values of safeguarding?
- decreases chance of prematurely rejecting an idea
- encourage members to offer suggestions more freely
- add to an infant idea and develop a mature solution
What are the 2 gatekeeping processes?
- gate-opening
- gate-closing
What is gate-opening?
Directly including other individuals in the discussion or for increasing an individual’s opportunity to contribute to the discussion
What is gate-closing?
Behavior as a means for excluding an individual from the discussion or reducing an individual’s opportunity to contribute to the discussion
What are the 4 strategies to process feelings?
- stay personally neutral
- understand rather than evaluate feelings
- process feelings using silence, then flip charts
- refocus the discussion on the original topic and its desired outcomes
What are the 4 general guidelines for dealing with disruptions?
- firm but friendly confrontation
- encourage shared responsibility for handling difficult members
- use nonverbal cues
- acknowledge acceptable behavior
What are the 4 good reasons for encouraging differences?
- critical thinking is stimulated
- innovation and creativity are sparked
- group stagnation is minimized
- healthy debate and discussion are energizing
What are the 4 negative results of differences?
- winners are produced at the expense of losers
- polarization is fostered
- energy is consumed unproductively
- a short-term orientation takes hold
What are the 4 phases of “mining group gold? OR What are the 4 segments of effective group facilitation?”
- preplanning
- start-up
- move-out
- wrap-up
What is developed in “PREPLANNING” phase of “mining group gold”?
- PDORA
- invite smallest number of people necessary
- plan procedures to be employed
- establish task-oriented behaviors, maintenance-oriented behaviors and gatekeeping processes
What does “PDORA” stand for?
- purpose of the session
- desired outcomes
- roles
- agenda
What is involved in “START-UP” phase of “mining group gold”?
- informal socialization
- review PDORA
- answer questions
What is included in “MOVE-OUT” phase of “mining group gold”?
- initiate a collaborative climate
- maintaining a collaborative climate
- concluding along the way
- handling disruptive behavior
- encourage constructive conflict
- discourage destructive conflict
- encourage process checks
- don’t duck emotions
What is accomplished during “WRAP-UP” phase of “mining group gold”?
- tie up loose ends
- conduct critique
What is power?
Influence potential
What does power do for a leader?
Gain compliance or commitment from others
What are the 2 types of power?
- position
- personal
Where does position power come from?
The extent to which those people to whom managers report are willing to delegate authority and responsibility down to them
From above and flows down
What is personal power?
The extent to which followers respect, feel good about and are committed to their leader, and see their own goals as being satisfied by the goals of their leader
Comes from below
How many “Bases of Power” are there?
7
What are the power bases from low performance readiness to high readiness level?
- coercive
- connection
- reward
- legitimate
- referent
- information
- expert
How many position power bases are there?
4
What are the 4 position power bases and at what readiness levels/influence behaviors are they used at?
- coercive, r1, s1
- connection, r1-r2, s1-s2
- reward, r2, s2
- legitimate, r2-r3, s2-s3
What is coercive power?
The perceived ability to provide sanctions, punishment or consequences for not performing
What is connection power?
The perceived association of the leader with influential persons or organizations
What is reward power?
The perceived ability to provide things that people would like to have
What is legitimate power?
The perception that it is appropriate for the leader to make decisions because of title, role or position in the organization
How many personal power bases are there?
3
What are the 3 personal power bases are there and at what readiness levels/influence behaviors are they used at?
- referent, r3, s3
- information, r3-r4, s3-s4
- expert, r4, s4
What is referent power?
The perceived attractiveness of interacting with the leader
What is information power?
The perceived access to, or possession of, useful information
What is expert power?
The perception that the leader has relevant education, experience and expertise
How many performance readiness levels are there?
4 (r1-r4)
What is readiness level r1?
Unable AND insecure or unwilling
What is readiness level r2?
Unable, BUT confident or willing
What is readiness level r3?
Able, BUT insecure or unwilling
What is readiness level r4?
Able AND confident and willing
How many influence behaviors are there?
4 (s1-s4)
What is influence behavior s1?
Telling (high task, low relationship)
What is influence behavior s2?
Selling (high task, high relationship)
What is influence behavior s3?
Participating (high relationship, low task)
What is influence behavior s4?
Delegating (low relationship, low task)
What are the 4 elements of good order and discipline?
- just
- fair
- consistent
- equal
What are the 2 types of discipline?
- punitive
- constructive
What are the 5 discipline intervention guidelines?
- timely
- vary the emotional level
- focus on performance
- be specific
- keep it private
What does punishment do?
Prevents the recurrence of a behavior
What does negative reinforcement do?
Strengthens the response that eliminates the punishment
What is the limitation of punishment?
It shows what not to do, but not what to do
What is extinction?
Ignoring or taking no action toward a negative behavior