Edge - Phase 1 Coaching - Recap Quiz

A senior leader is feeling stressed due to her work load at work and home. Which of the following strategies can she use to cope up?

• Ignore it and continue working, after all work load is part and parcel of working with a large corporate

• Discuss it with the team and delegate the uninteresting work to your team members to distribute the work load

• Discuss it with the manager and the team and seek support

• Take things as they are and keep working as things tend to ease out with the passage of time

What is an effective way for senior leaders to show empathy during times of organizational change?

• Announce the changes without explaining the reasons behind the same

• Announce the changes and push the employees to adapt to the changes

• Share the changes over an email and allow everyone to adapt on their own

• Announce the changes while addressing the employees' concerns

Sushil, a senior leader in the team has gotten feedback that he lacks gravitas.
Which of the following should he do?

• Imitate the behaviour and style of other successful leaders and follow the way they carry themselves and talk with their teams

• Cultivate self-awareness, connect with the team and communicate with integrity

• Focus on projecting confidence, by showcasing achievements especially in front of peers and teams

• Avoid showing vulnerability or admitting mistakes to display gravitas

Shamik is about to present a proposed project to the leaders at home office. He is sweating profusely and is apparently nervous.
What can he do to feel a little better?

• Reframe the situation in his mind

• Ask the leaders for a short break

• Suppress his emotions and carry on with the presentation

• Request your supervisor to present

Put the questions in the right order as advised by Rebecca Newton in her book "Authentic Gravitas" that help you prepare and deliver content well.
A. What’s driving my audience and what’s the most important to them right now?

B. What technique will be most helpful?

C. What insights do I and my prospective audience have about the topic at hand?

D. How does my audience perceive the topic?

E. What do I want people to remember?

F. What would be there in my content?

• EBFADC

• ABCDEF

• CADEFB

• FEDCBA

Which of the following will not be really helpful to enhance executive presence?

• Looking for more confidence

• Developing more self-awareness

• Being open for feedback

• Creating time for broader conversations

You and your team have been chosen to develop a project for the home office. The project is extremely critical and will help the overseas office in saving at least 30%-35% in terms of costs. The project is extremely challenging and has strict deadlines. You have accepted the project; however, you are not very confident whether you and your team will be able to deliver the project within the strict deadlines without compromising on the desired quality. What should you do as a leader?

• Ignore the negative thoughts and hope they go away on their own

• Share your concerns at all the meetings and keep building the ground as there is no way you can complete the project within the stipulated deadline

• Pay heed to the genuine concerns and address them and share them with the stakeholders

• Suppress your own thoughts and motivate the team to go all out and deliver the desired results

A senior leader Suzzanne believes that a particular team member is not capable of handling complex projects. Despite receiving positive feedback from other team members and seeing successful project completions in the past, she continues to assign only simple tasks to this individual. What bias is the leader exhibiting and what should she do to overcome it?

• Validation bias. Continue assigning simple tasks to the team member to avoid potential failures

• Confirmation bias. Reevaluate the team member's performance objectively, considering all feedback and recent successes, and provide opportunities for more complex tasks.

• Anchoring bias. Reevaluate the team member's performance objectively, considering all feedback and recent successes, and provide opportunities for more complex tasks

• Hindsight bias. Seek out information that supports the belief that the team member is not capable and keep assigning simple tasks only

You and your team are working alongside the automation team on an important project. A key part of the project fails at the last minute due to challenges in automating the process. What should be your next step as a leader?

• Identify the problem and develop a contingency plan

• Highlight the failure of the automation team

• Pause the project indefinitely to reassess the entire plan

• Escalate the problem to the leadership

You're a newly appointed director with an organisation that has a formal, hierarchical culture. Your natural leadership style is more casual and collaborative. In your first leadership meeting, how would you approach this situation?

• Immediately implement your casual style despite the company culture, as authenticity means never compromising who you are

• Completely adopt the formal leadership style of the company to fit in

• Bring your approach while respecting existing protocols, gradually introducing elements of your style as you build credibility

• Alternate between being formal in public settings and casual in private, creating two distinct leadership personas