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C235 - Topic 11
Term | Definition |
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Action Learning | An approach to leadership development that integrates classroom learning and on-the-job learning by working on real problems. |
Behavior Modeling Training | One well-researched approach to developing leaders in a classroom setting, particularly at the supervisory level. |
Behavior Theories | If what a leader is doesn’t seem to explain effectiveness, perhaps it is what a leader does. |
Coach | Someone who has a particular expertise or competence that the leader-in-training learns about during the coaching relationship. |
Competency Companion | A selected complementary behavior to develop as an adjunct to a pre-existing strength. |
Emotional Intelligence | The ability to monitor and regulate one’s own emotions, sense the emotional states of others, and behave in ways that are sensitive and effective in a given interpersonal situation. |
Externships | Where a promising young employee spends time at another firm. |
Leadership | The exercise of influence in a way that followers are committed to the direction the leader wants to head—not simply compliant, and certainly not resistant, but actually wanting to go in the new direction. |
Management | The process of bringing something about, accomplishing something, or having charge of or responsibility for something. |
Maturity | How long a group has been working together, how well group members understand their goals and roles, and how effectively they have been performing as a group. |
Mentor | An experienced senior employee who helps develop a less-experienced employee. |
People-oriented Behaviors | Are those behaviors aimed at helping employees meet social and esteem needs, giving encouragement and reinforcement, asking for employee input, and listening to their concerns. |
Positive Leadership Theory | Theory that focuses on the positive aspects of work climate such as compassion, meaningfulness, and support. |
Situational Theory | The theory that the “secret sauce” to leadership lays in the interaction between the leader’s behavior and the situation he or she faced. |
Task-oriented Behaviors | Include things like focusing on employee performance, clarifying rules and processes, determining employee roles and goals, removing roadblocks to performance, and working across department boundaries to make it easier to get work done. |
The Hersey-Blanchard Situational Theory of Leadership | States that instead of using just one leadership style, leaders should change their style based on the maturity of the people they are leading and the details of the task. |
The Leadership Challenge | A five-dimensional model of leadership behavior that is based on a large survey. The five-dimensions of the model include challenge the process, inspire a shared vision, enable others to act, model the way, and encourage the heart. |
Trait Theories | Assumption that leaders are born and not made. |
Transactional Leadership | Behavior and contingency theories that focus on the details of the interaction between leader and followers. |
Transformational Leadership | Leadership where top managers may never even meet many of the followers. |
Zenger-Folkman Theory | Theory that leaders don’t get better by working to improve their weaknesses, but rather by further developing their strengths. |