Slide pack 4

Question 1

What is the role of a leader in a company culture

Answer 1

Setting the tone from the top
Set the agenda - here’s what we want to achieve, how we will do it, what you personally are going to do for the team - Leadership is bringing the team together. They should be goal setting and mapping for their team

Question 2

What is a leadership narrative

Answer 2

Leadership involves painting a picture of the future
Leadership is often about delivering through other people,Setting up an environment where people can learn and collaborate with each other and creating a narrative that helps a team advance towards their goals
It is also important that goals of a leader are achieved
Leaders must understand the collective is more productive

Question 3

How does people engaging their nous associate with leadership

Answer 3

People find it difficult to engage their Nous so they have trouble creating their own narrative but are open to following narratives of other - power vacuum

Question 4

What si the three step rule for leadership

Answer 4

If you are one step ahead – people will follow you
If you are two steps ahead – some will follow you, but not all of them will understand of see you
If you are three steps ahead – they mostly won’t see you

Question 5

Why is empathy beneficial in a leader

Answer 5

If the team sees the leader has their interests at heart and they want the business to grow so we can all benefit and they also have empathy for my priorities etc so i gravitate towards them

Question 6

What is the best/worst outcome form a power vacuum

Answer 6

Best outcome – democracy with citizen type behavior

Worst outcome – barbaric/brutish anarchy

Question 7

What are the traits of an ideal leader

Answer 7

Should have excellent values close to the citizen concept:honest, trustworthy, excellent to work with, not a brute. Right balance of everything.

Question 8

How does a good leader hold its followers

Answer 8

A ‘good’ leader holds his followers by demonstrating the truth of his teachings through the Reality Principle, and by continually appealing to their Superegos and their desire to do the right thing. He convinces them that only by keeping the common good in mind can they attain maturity and happiness for themselves

Question 9

How does a bad leader hold its followers

Answer 9

He first changes their Superegos to suit his own ends, so that they will think it a duty to do as he wants them to. He keeps them interested by supplying them with opportunities for instinctive impulses satisfaction. With their Superegos they would not have allowed themselves to indulge in the selfish

Question 10

What groups can any strong unswerving leader win over?

Answer 10

Egoists
Ego searchers
Egocentrics - human sheep

Question 11

What is the benefit of good employee morale

Answer 11

Are team thinking coming to work i’m working with all my colleagues - not competing but collaborating towards this goal?
Happy workers increases performance and productivity

Question 12

Explain the if I cant beat join attitude

Answer 12

Might occur with cold power hungry leader creates bad culture of abd employees reluctantly go to mindset of “if i conform to this tone i’ll do better”
People act in a similar manner to their leader
The more folks that conform to a leader they build this empire which becomes harder harder to go against and it creates a solidifies a toxic culture

Question 13

How to tackle a brutish nature

Answer 13

Use of disobedience
Creating open feedback structure, realism
Match brute with sternness
Stand up to them

Question 14

What are the traits of a winner

Answer 14

Winner is one step ahead ( knowing how a situation will evolve over time is really important. )and knows what they will do if they lose.
They think ahead rather than dwell on the past
Doesn’t talk about what they’ll do if they win and not afraid to lose

Question 15

What are the traits of a non winner

Answer 15

Non winners are those who work very hard just to stay even

They don’t strive for the next opportunity and next move

Question 16

What are the traits of a loser

Answer 16

They will talk about what they do if they will but don’t know what they will do if they lose
Losers are afraid to lose - fear of failure
They don’t take the risks so they may not make mistakes they can learn from

Question 17

What is the nonsensical brute rhetoric

Answer 17

They have distorted logic or pretense
They may scapegoat an dintimidate people so people do not challenge them
Deflecting to avoid engaging in reason or persuasion
Encouragement of the extremes to turn things into their opposite
Relying on small levels of understanding and great levels of forgiveness

Question 18

What are some techniques to mitigate brutish behaviour

Answer 18

Education
Laughter – only method to defeat authority
Having a capacity for disobedience
Curiosity 
Having diversity of opinion
Ostracism.

Question 19

How should a group combat Brutish behaviour?

Answer 19

Cooperation amongst ‘citizens’ imperative – unity is strength
Someone willing to take on this leader cannot be isolated and must be supported by a group too. -Important if you want to make change to get a group together and have a strategy

Question 20

Why is power important to be aware of as an actuary

Answer 20

In actuarial position everyone is gonna be wrong it’s just a range at which you are wrong. Power is important here. - Whether you want the power or not, if you sign off on something, it’s on your head. Significant degree of power.

Question 21

What are the positive traits of an actuary

Answer 21

• Honesty and directness
• Reliability, loyalty, Dedication and determination.
• A strong moral code and sense of justice
• A strong desire to seek knowledge, truth and perfection
• A distinct sense of humour
• Exceptional long-term memory

Question 22

What are the weaknesses of an actuary

Answer 22

Dealing with uncertainty cna make actuary risk averse
Important to get a balance between reasonable level of accuracy vs perfectionism.
Actuaries are hard workers but know when you’re tired and when it’s appropriate to stop working. - understand your emotions

Question 23

Explain Berne’s idea of parent, child and adult ego

Answer 23

Parent ego - Shoulds and outs of life
Adult ego - attitude in response to the here and now and the reality in this point in time
Child ego - personality preserved from childhood. Spontaneous feelings. Needs and wants as a child

Question 24

What is meant by collective logic?

Answer 24

Collective logic in decision making and the power of numbers:
People getting in a room making decisions together often leads to the best decisions with difference thoughts and expertise etc

Question 25

How can one have a healthy work enivornment

Answer 25

A good leader is a key thing to have in a healthy work environment.
Training on how to conduct oneself and how to operate within a particular workplace is really important
Check and ensure that the department’s culture is in line with what is hopefully a strong company culture. Is there just this apartment that has an issue? Is this comparing form a manager creating a toxic environment

Question 26

Explain self actualisation

Answer 26

Being the best version of oneself. Knowing what motivates you to leverage that.

Question 27

When can braoder narrative view be especially important int he workplace and difficult to do.

Answer 27

Understand that broader narrative and have the ability to take a bird’s eye view and this is very important in especially senior roles.
Can be hard to do if you’re especially liable or involved in an ethical dilemma to see things from all point of views but it’s really important

Question 28

Explain individualisation

Answer 28

Process by which as you get older you become more mature and developed in your ability to analyse situations. You can carefully consider things. Important in professional context this comes with experience and being through scenarios you develop an ability to assess things in a better manner

Question 29

What time should an ethical problem be dealt with

Answer 29

Immediately.
Try to understand it immediately and understand the narrative. You don’t want to sit on the issue for a while
You want to address the situation quickly and apply your ethical framework