Volume 2 Vocab Flashcards
An established requirement, rule, or benchmark that something can be judged by.
Standard
The conduct, aims, or qualities that characterize a professional person, emphasizing ethics, skills, and service to the community.
Professionalism
A military officer who has not earned a commission and is responsible for the supervision and training of lower-ranking personnel.
Non-Commissioned Officer (NCO)
A leadership philosophy in which the leader’s main goal is to serve others, prioritizing the growth and well-being of people and communities.
Servant Leadership
The process of guiding someone through challenges and helping them improve their skills and performance through support and feedback.
Coaching
Overseeing the work or tasks of others to ensure they meet standards and are performed correctly.
Supervision
A positive form of discipline aimed at correcting behaviors while also teaching and promoting personal growth.
Constuctive Discipline
The internal or external reasons or desires that drive an individual to pursue a goal or action.
Motivation
The study of how people in a team interact and work together to achieve a common goal.
Team Dynamics
A psychological phenomenon in which people in a group prioritize harmony and consensus over critical analysis, leading to poor decisions.
Groupthink
The overall desired outcome or purpose behind a leader’s orders or mission.
Command Intent
Being responsible for one’s actions and decisions, particularly in fulfilling duties or achieving goals.
Accountability
Motivation that comes from internal desires, such as personal satisfaction or the joy of accomplishing a task.
Intrinsic Motivation
Motivation driven by external rewards such as money, grades, or recognition.
Extrinsic Motivation
A leadership theory that considers both people’s needs and the need for task completion, focusing on balancing concern for people with concern for production.
Grid Theory
Methods and processes involved in facilitating the peaceful ending of conflict and retribution.
Conflict Resolution
The ability to recognize, understand, manage, and influence the emotions of oneself and others.
Emotional Intelligence
The process of analyzing facts to form a judgment; involves being objective, logical, and open-minded.
Critical Thinking
A group activity focused on generating ideas and solutions through spontaneous and free-form discussion.
Brainstorming
A leadership style focused on supervision, organization, and performance, where rewards and punishments are used to motivate followers.
Transactional Leadership
A leadership approach that inspires and motivates individuals to achieve more than they originally intended by fostering creativity, challenging ideas, and pushing for innovation.
Transformational Leadership
Specialized language used by a particular group, often difficult for outsiders to understand.
Jargon
A clear and concise expression of the purpose and the desired end state of an operation or task.
Commander’s Intent
Standards or principles by which something is judged or assessed.
Criteria
Things that are accepted as true or certain without proof.
Assumptions
The range or extent of knowledge, experience, or understanding.
Breadth
Reasoning conducted or assessed according to strict principles of validity.
Logic
The quality of seeming or being felt to be true, even if not necessarily true.
Truthiness
Criteria used to evaluate the quality of reasoning, including clarity, accuracy, precision, relevance, depth, breadth, logic, and fairness.
Universal Intellectual Standards
The quality of being correct or precise.
Accuracy
The relation of something to the matter at hand or its importance in a given context.
Relevance
The quality of being exact and accurate.
Precision
The complexity and thoroughness of thought or analysis.
Depth
A learning style in which individuals learn best through hands-on activities and physical movement.
Kinesthetic Learning
A learning style where learners absorb information better when it’s presented in a visual form, such as charts or diagrams.
Visual Learning
A learning style in which people learn best by listening, such as through spoken instructions or lectures.
Auditory Learning
Learning through touch or physical sensation, often through hands-on experiences.
Tactile Learning
A belief or expectation that brings about its own fulfillment.
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
The ability to motivate oneself to take action, persist, and achieve goals without external encouragement.
Self-Motivation
The ability to communicate and interact effectively with others.
Interpersonal Skills
The ability to understand and share the feelings of another person.
Empathy
A psychological theory proposing that people are motivated to fulfill basic needs (such as food, safety) before moving on to higher-level needs (such as self-actualization).
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
A transactional leadership strategy where rewards are given based on the performance of a task or achievement of a goal.
Contingent
The realization of one’s potential or the fulfillment of personal talents and capabilities.
Self-Actualization
Systematic errors in thinking that affect decisions and judgments.
Cognitive Biases
Different methods or approaches to processing information, such as analytical, creative, or critical thinking.
Modes of thinking
The sentence in a paragraph that summarizes the main idea of that paragraph.
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