Week 1: Introduction to Leadership Skills & Cultural Competencies Flashcards
Great Leaders are …
- Confident in themselves
- Connected to others
- Commited to a purpose
- Emotianally Courageous
You need to excel at all 4 simulataneously, to be a powerful presence.
To get the most important work done, you have to …
- have hard conversation
- create accountability
- and inspire action.
What are the 10 essential actions for critical thinking?
- Judge the credibility of sources.
- Identify conclusions, reasons and assumptions.
- Judge the quality of an argument, including the acceptability of its reasons, assuamptions and evidence.
- Develop and defend a position on an issue.
- Ask appropriate clarifyin questions.
- Plan experiments and judge experimental designs.
- Define terms in a way appropriate for the context.
- Be open-minded.
- Try to be well-informed.
- Draw conclusions when warranted but with caution.
What are the 4 goals of the course?
Developing:
- Cultural competence
- Interpersonal skills
- Intrapersonal skills
- Leadership skills
What is cultural competence or CQ?
- An outsider’s seemingly natural ability to interpret someone’s unfamiliar and abiguous gestures the way that person’s compatriots would.
- 3 components: head, body and heart.
What are intrapersonal skills?
- Self-awareness
- Self-esteem
- Learning styles
- Emotional stability
- Self control
What are interpersonal skills?
- Social skills
- Empathy
- Extraversion
- Self-monitoring
- Self-control
- Part of contientiousness
What are leadership skills?
abilities related to understanding and motivating yourself and others.
- Motivating talend
- Goal setting
- Performance feedback
- Communicating a vision
- Negotiation
- Problem-solving
- Ethical analysis
What are the issues to consider with global leadership skills?
- Universal leadership characteristics
- Cultural dimensions for societies
- Integrative theories examining how leadership interacts with culture
Success: Critical examination of your own leadership skills and their likelihood of success in societies with different value orientations.
What are the actions for global critical leadership?
- Situational leadership and global contexts
- Actions and decision-making
- Flexibility and open-mindedness
- Critical leadership
What are Hofstede’s 5 cultural dimensions?
- Power distance
- Uncertainty avoidance
- Individualism / Collectivism
- Masculinity / Feminity
- Time Orientation
What are Trompenaars’ 7 cultural dimensions?
- Universalism vs. particularism
- Individualism vs. communitarism
- Specific vs. diffuse
- Affective vs. neutral
- achievement vs. ascription
- sequential vs. synchronic time
- inner vs. outer directed
