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WorksheetsLeadership Final
Total questions: 60
Worksheet time: 38mins
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Class
Date
1.
Which model addresses four types of leadership styles?
a)
The Confident Model
b)
The Situational Leadership Model
c)
The Motivational Leader Model
d)
The Authoritarian Leadership Model
2.
In the Situational Leadership Model, to which level do employees need to be developed?
a)
The Delegating Level
b)
The Selling Level
c)
The Participating Level
d)
The Telling Level
3.
What is the lowest level of leadership style?
a)
The Delegating Level
b)
The Selling Level
c)
The Participating Level
d)
The Telling Level
4.
What does a participating leader need to focus more on?
a)
On the tasks assigned
b)
On getting the “buy in” of the employee from the start
c)
On the relationship between the employee, the leader, and the group
d)
On building the employee into a leader
5.
Which of these are the follower-driven stages?
a)
Delegating and Participating
b)
. Selling and Telling
c)
Telling and Participating
d)
Delegating and Selling
6.
What is the name of the book published in 2002 and written by James Kouzes and Barry Posner?
a)
How Leadership Changed My Life and Will Change Yours, Too
b)
The Leadership Inventory
c)
The Leadership Challenge
d)
The Delegating Leader: The Ultimate Goal
7.
Which of these is one of Kouzes’ and Posner’s abilities that are crucial to successful leadership?
a)
Enable Others to Act
b)
Lead the way
c)
Enforce the process
d)
Encourage the imagination
8.
Which ability means “Think outside the box.”?
a)
Lead the Way
b)
Challenge the Process
c)
Enable Others to Act
d)
Inspire a Shared Vision
9.
What should you focus on when receiving feedback?
a)
Whether you agree
b)
Defending yourself
c)
What you can learn
d)
Giving feedback to the other person
10.
As a leader, what should you take every opportunity to do?
a)
Gain more followers
b)
Communicate your vision in words and deeds
c)
Re-assess the loyalty of your followers
d)
Have your words speak louder than your actions
11.
What is benefit of having employees build ownership in their work?
a)
The employee feels committed to work and works harder
b)
They can take part in its liability
c)
They pitch in to buy office supplies
d)
They take less vacation time
12.
What should be the focus of the feedback?
a)
Past Behavior
b)
Future Behavior
c)
Punishment
d)
Warning
13.
In the results of the Kouzes/Posner study, what was reported as the most important quality in a leader?
a)
Independent
b)
Supportive
c)
Honest
d)
Determined
14.
Which of the following moments in life helps you to determine your core values?
a)
Proudest moment
b)
Happiest moment
c)
Most satisfying moment
d)
all are correct
15.
Which of these statements is true about modeling the way as a leader?
a)
A true leader takes the blame, and then addresses how to correct the problems that arose
b)
The best followers are examples of what they want their leaders to be
c)
You can lead from the rear and send your followers out to take the heat and face the challenges
d)
If something does go wrong, a true leader blames his followers especially if in fact they failed
16.
Why can micromanagement be ineffective?
a)
It adds more work to your employees
b)
It makes it easier for your bosses to blame you for things that go wrong
c)
It makes employees work too hard
d)
It keeps employees from growing
17.
Why the manager should resist the urge to help the employees solve their problems?
a)
To build their confidence
b)
To help them learn
c)
To build their self-confidence
d)
all are correct
18.
What type of attitude must you always have to inspire others?
a)
Autonomous, demanding, arrogant
b)
Honest, caring, dedicated
c)
Quiet, timid, soft-spoken.
d)
Loud, boisterous, flighty
19.
Developing Employees mostly, is the responsibility of:
a)
Training Department
b)
Human Resources
c)
His manager
d)
all are correct
20.
When coaching an employee, most of the time you should focus on:
a)
Telling him what to do
b)
Showing him what to do
c)
Ask him open questions to raise awareness
d)
Explain to him how the job should be done
21.
The G in GROW model stands for
a)
Give
b)
Go
c)
Goal
d)
Guide
22.
What is the purpose of celebrating small success?
a)
Build confidence
b)
Create trends
c)
Save money
d)
Support goals
23.
Feedback should be given:
a)
for good performance only
b)
for bad performance only
c)
You do not need to give feedback
d)
for good and bad performance
24.
What leadership style you should use with the follower who is not convinced yet but is open to becoming cooperative and motivated
a)
Telling
b)
Selling
c)
Participating
d)
Delegating
25.
One of the suggested leadership guidelines of the situational leadership model is that leaders should _______.
a)
use one style consistently across all situations
b)
be flexible in adjusting styles over time as followers develop and change themselves
c)
exercise caution in treating some followers better than others
d)
disregard personal style and focus instead on the rewards sought by followers
26.
To lobby for change, you need to:
a)
Influence people and excite them to your vision
b)
demonstrate why your requested change needs to occur
c)
Persuade a reluctant boss or fight a corporate culture that doesn’t understand what you are trying to do.
d)
all are correct
27.
Without mutual _______ and ________, you cannot accomplish great things.
a)
Respect, Paradigm
b)
Trust , Respect
c)
Understanding, Trust
d)
Paradigm, Trust
28.
The Purpose of one on ones meetings is:
a)
To get to know the employees better and build trust
b)
To follow up with work
c)
To work on developing them
d)
all are correct
29.
When an employee is facing a problem, as a leader and coach you should:
a)
Offer a solution
b)
ask awareness questions
c)
Reassign the task to another employee
d)
All of them are correct
30.
What is the goal of coaching in development?
a)
Productivity
b)
Adaptability
c)
Satisfaction
d)
all are correct.
31.
In coaching, the option step is also called the
a)
obstacle step
b)
Easy Step
c)
Clear Step
d)
Escape Step
32.
How do coaches drive learning?
a)
Direct learning
b)
Questions
c)
They do not
d)
They provide the solution
33.
The only way to make team members vulnerable and to build trust in the team is if:
a)
you enforce it on the team
b)
If the leader goes first and becomes vulnerable
c)
If you ignore it and they will learn to trust each other
d)
all are correct
34.
Which coaching model focuses on Talent Development?
a)
practice
b)
Appreciative Coaching
c)
GROW
d)
Positive
35.
High Trust environment will cause employees to:
a)
Speak highly of one another
b)
Communicate more often
c)
To help one another
d)
all are correct
36.
Which of these is the first step to creating an action plan?
a)
Seek experience
b)
Choose a role model
c)
Set leadership goals
d)
Create a personal mission statement
37.
Who is leadership not for?
a)
The timid or the arrogant
b)
Those who have honesty and integrity
c)
The bold and the self-starter
d)
The self-confident and self-assured
38.
What makes others feel empowered?
a)
Listening to them
b)
Having a leader in charge
c)
Disengaging yourself from your staff
d)
Being given a compliment in private
39.
The ability to monitor, recognize, and understand emotions, and to use it to guide actions and promote growth is called:
a)
IQ
b)
EQ
c)
SQ
d)
RQ
40.
The ability to fully understand oneself and to use that information to manage emotions productively , defines:
a)
Empathy
b)
Social Expertness
c)
Self-Awareness and Self-Control
d)
Personal Influence
41.
Which of the following is not a competency under Self-Awareness
a)
Knowledge of self
b)
Accurate self-assessment
c)
Empathy
d)
Self-confidence
42.
Accurately sensing and understanding others’ emotions; taking active interest in their needs and concerns is:
a)
Sympathy
b)
Empathy
c)
Friendship
d)
All of the above
43.
The lack of self-awareness can cause you to:
a)
not realize your worth in the company
b)
have doubts about yourself
c)
to a lack of leadership effectiveness
d)
All of the above
44.
Which of the following are techniques that can improve your skills at feeling empathy?
a)
Listen first
b)
Stand in their shoes
c)
Find common ground
d)
All of them are correct
45.
Why is managing emotions important?
a)
Because you want to avoid embarrassment
b)
Because you don’t want it to use you and get bad outcomes
c)
Because you don’t want to be vulnerable at work
d)
Because showing the undesirable emotions at work isn’t professional
46.
What is a question you can ask yourself to help choose your vision?
a)
What’s in it for me?
b)
Why are things the way they are?
c)
What do you want to accomplish, and what do you need to do to get there?
d)
What is most important in my life?
47.
What will your vision provide for you and your employees?
a)
A monetary source
b)
A sense of accomplishment
c)
A series of ideas
d)
A sense of direction
48.
What is one of the best ways to communicate a vision?
a)
Verbal repetition
b)
Sum the vision up in a simple catch phrase
c)
Posting flyers with lengthy paragraphs explaining your vision
d)
Have your employees recite the vision daily
49.
What is something you could learn from your employee in one-on-one meetings?
a)
That they need more freedom
b)
That they need more self-confidence
c)
That they need more training
d)
All of the above
50.
What can help manage expectations when it comes to trust?
a)
Promising frequently, to look trustworthy
b)
Never making a promise, in order not to disappoint anyone
c)
Over-promising and under-delivering
d)
Under-promising and over-delivering
51.
The Forming stage is characterized by conflict and polarization.
a)
True
b)
FALSE
52.
The Storming stage is the most productive stage of team development.
a)
True
b)
FALSE
53.
The Norming stage is when team members begin to trust each other.
a)
True
b)
FALSE
54.
The Performing stage is when the team is fully functional and achieves its goals effectively.
a)
True
b)
FALSE
55.
The leader's role becomes less important as the team progresses through the stages of development.
a)
True
b)
FALSE
56.
The GROW model is a coaching model that helps you organize your coaching process.
a)
True
b)
FALSE
57.
The GROW model has four steps: goal setting, reality check, options developed, and wrap it up with a plan.
a)
True
b)
FALSE
58.
Setting the goal first in the GROW model helps to shape the discussion with your employee and sets the tone.
a)
True
b)
FALSE
59.
The reality check step in the GROW model is where you and your employee identify any obstacles that may be preventing them from achieving their goal.
a)
True
b)
FALSE
60.
It is effective to use the same leadership style with all followers.
a)
True
b)
FALSE
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