Leadership Flashcards

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What is self leadership

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Understanding who you are, what you want to achieve and how you plan on achieving it.

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How can you build self leadership

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  • intention: why you want to achieve something
  • self awareness: acknowledging and understand yourself and your needs
  • self confidence: aware of strengths and weaknesses
  • self efficacy: confidence in your ability that even if you face challenges it doesn’t not derail you.
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What is the SOAR model

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A framework for managing one’s self by understanding one’s outlook, knowing what actions need to be taken and reflecting and learning from the results

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What is SOAR and acronym for

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Self, outlook, action, reflection.

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What does self represent in SOAR

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Understanding yourself, your personality, strengths, weaknesses, interest and values

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What does outlook represent in SOAR

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Understanding how you view the world and how this influences everything you do

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What does action represent in SOAR

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Taking steps towards achieving the objectives you have set out for yourself.

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What does reflection represent in SOAR

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Learning from your outcomes. What went right? what went wrong ? What can I change ?

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What are examples of leadership traits

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Integrity, self confidence, openness and effective communication

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What is ethical leadership

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Leadership centred around appropriate conduct through respect for ethics and values, as well as the rights and dignity of others

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What behaviours do ethical leaders display

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  • Lead by example
  • put others first
  • hold themselves accountable
  • guided by their own values
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How can you demonstrate integrity as a leader

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  • keeping to your commitments
  • being fair
  • admitting when you have made a mistake
  • giving credit when someone deserves it
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What is Ubuntu leadership

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A type of leadership where people are but first

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What are the different leadership styles

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Democratic, autocratic, laissez faire, transformational and servant leadership

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What is a democratic leadership style

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These leaders focus on results but also concentrate on the people involved in achieving those results

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What is an autocratic leader

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An autocratic leader focused on results without much consideration for those involved in achieving these results.

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What is a laissez faire leader

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This is the opposite of an autocratic leader where followers are left to complete their tasks on their own using their initiative. This works well when followers are highly experienced and confident in their roles

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What is a transformational leader

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A leader who works with people to identify and inspire change. The leader is responsible for creating a vision and executing any changes needed

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What is a servant leader

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These leaders put other peoples needs above their own. They build morale within their teams

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What is leadership

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A skill that involves guiding a person or group of people to a unified goal

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What are practical ways to develop leadership capacity

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  1. Delaying gratification
  2. Failing forward
  3. Different forms of intelligence fence
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Why does delayed gratification employ your willpower

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It gives you the ability to do what matters most even when it is difficult. Goal achievement of any kind involves employing our willpower to avoid instant gratification, and being able to work towards delayed gratification.

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What is willpower

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A skill that is essential in order to lead a successful life

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What is willpower affected by

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Use: the more we use it the more depleted it becomes

Our environment: when temptations are around us require more willpower

Poor sleep

Stress: diverts our energy into the instinctive fight or flight response taking away from rational decision making

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What is failing forward

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Realising that failure is a prerequisite for innovation and thus viewing it as a necessary part of learning.

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What is the iceberg illusion

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It Is a term used to describe how we often forget about the hard work and delayed gratification that goes into achieving success

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What is the pleasure principle

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When we are young our unconscious mind drives out behaviour, making us want instant gratification

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What is the reality principle

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As we get older and more mature, our unconscious mind stops being so dominant. We develop the ability to asses out experiences in the real world and make decisions based on those experiences rather than on instant gratification

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What are the different forms of intelligence

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EQ, SQ, IQ, AQ, MQ and BQ

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What is EQ

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The ability to identify, asses and manage our own emotions as well as to understand those of others

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What is SQ

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Social intelligence is related to social maturity. It is an evaluation of how an individual interprets and interacts with social situations

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What is IQ

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Intelligence quotient refers to our intellectual intelligence and cognitive abilities

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What is AQ

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Adversity quotient is a measure of our resilience.

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What is MQ

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Our moral quotient refers to how you treat yourself and how you treat others

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What is BQ

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Body quotient refers to your relationship with your body and how well you take care of it. It involves exercising, eating well, positive self esteem, managing stress levels and getting enough sleep

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What are morals

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The standard of good or bad behaviour, fairness, honesty and so on in which a person believes

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What are ethics

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Moral principles that govern behaviour. There are four key principles that serve as a useful guide for our behaviour

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What are the four key ethics principles

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  1. Respect for autonomy principle: respect others and the decisions they make about their lives
  2. Nonmaleficence principle: do not harm others and where harm cannot be avoided it should be minimised
  3. Justice principle: do not discriminate
  4. Beneficence principle: our actions should bring about good