What Are Key Feature for Effective Leadership Flashcards

What are the critical factors for effective leadership? Read and study these flashcards, and you will learn about effective leadership. There are many common characteristics of effective leaders. It involves being clear about what needs to be done, expressing your vision so that others may see it, inspiring others to follow them, and knowing when conflict is healthy or a distraction from work. Read and study these flashcards, and you may become an effective leader yourself.

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Leadership has been called these six(6) things.

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1. A trait
2. A behavior
3. A skill
4. A talent
5. A characteristic
6. An art
In regards to leadership, the company officer must be able to recognize these two things during emergency and nonemergency functions.

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1. What effective leadership is
2. How to apply it
Control of personnel is essential to ensure that these three things occur.

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1. Injuries are kept to a minimum
2. Accountability is assured throughout the operation
3. Operational goals are attained
In nonemergency operations and during daily work activities, leadership is essential for doing these three things.

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1. Using resources efficiently
2. Ensuring a safe and healthy environment
3. Preventing interpersonal disputes that can weaken a unit's effectiveness
_____ is most closely related to the act of directing, overseeing, or controlling the activities of other individuals, a basic function of the Level I fire officer as a first-line supervisor.

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Supervision
_____ is applied to the control of a project, program, situation, or organization, a function often associated with the Level II fire officer.

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Managing
This is not easily taught or learned. It is based on personality traits or characteristics that must be developed by the individual.

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Leading
Act of directing, overseeing, or controlling the activities and behavior of employees who are assigned to a particular supervisor.

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Supervising
Act of controlling, monitoring, or directing a project, program, situation, or organization through the use of authority, discipline, or persuasion.

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Managing
Act of controlling, directing, conducting, guiding, and administering through the use of personal behavioral traits or personality characteristics that motivate employees to the successful completion of an organization's goals.

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Leading
Some organizational theorists, psychologists, and behavioral scientists believe that managers can effectively supervise and lead but that leaders and supervisors cannot always manage. True or false?

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FALSE

"...believe that LEADERS can effectively supervise and manage but that managers and supervisors cannot always lead."
The nineteenth and twentieth centuries saw the rise of the industrial age and the development of _____.

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The behavioral sciences
Part of the development of the behavioral sciences included studies into these two things.

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1. Organizational management
2. Leadership
Some of the resulting theories on leadership have been based on these six(6) aspects.

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1. Traits
2. Behavior
3. Quality management
4. Situations
5. Principles
6. Levels
The disadvantage of the trait approach to leadership is what?

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No single trait was found to be consistently present in all examples