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The mechanism(s) through which self-leadership strategies can influence stress coping include ______.
a. self-efficacy and optimism
b. optimism and positive emotions
c. positive emotions
d. self-efficacy and positive emotions
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Emotional intelligence represents abilities or characteristics that individuals can draw upon to cope with and respond to emotion-provoking situations and events, while emotional self-leadership is/are ______.
a. a capacity or an ability demonstrated by certain people
b. a constellation of personality traits and self-perceived abilities
c. processes of influencing emotions including certain choices and actions
d. the same thing as emotional intelligence
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What type of concepts can emotional intelligence and self-leadership be when dealing with emotions?
a. opposing
b. complimentary
c. parallel
d. symmetrical
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Which of the following can emotional intelligence be conceptualized as?
a. a capacity or ability demonstrated by certain people (ability EI)
b. a constellation of personality traits and self-perceived abilities (mixed EI)
c. an overarching umbrella to self-leadership
d. ability EI and mixed EI
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Which of the following abilities does emotional intelligence involve?
a. perceive our own and others emotions
b. understand our own or anothers emotions
c. regulate our own emotions
d. perceive, understand, and regulate our own emotions
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Which of the following is not a strategy in which emotional regulation strategies can appeal to our primary senses?
a. fragrances that trigger moods
b. exercising
c. leaving the situation
d. music or sounds that promote relaxation
Q:
Which of the following is/are times those emotional self-leadership strategies can be applied?
a. before the emotion arises
b. after the emotion has been triggered
c. after the emotion has passed
d. before the emotion arises and after the emotion passes
Q:
Understanding the processes by which we influence which emotions we have, when we have them, and how we experience and express them is called emotional ______.
a. self-leadership
b. self-regulation
c. response
d. contagion
Q:
Emotional self-leadership has a profound impact on ______.
a. emotions
b. behaviors
c. actions
d. emotions, behaviors, and actions
Q:
If a positive experience in fitness results in praise from others, you are engaging in which type of self-leadership strategy?
a. self-talk
b. finding purpose
c. mental imagery
d. removing negative cues
Q:
When setting personal goals, which of the following is a key to setting longer-term goals?
a. setting unreasonably hard goals
b. setting shorter-term goals/objectives
c. focusing solely on the longer-term goal
d. not focusing on short-term rewards
Q:
Which of the following can negative self-talk do to an individuals engagement in fitness goals?
a. reduce energy and increase happiness
b. reduce self-confidence and increase happiness
c. reduce happiness
d. reduce energy and self-confidence
Q:
Which of the following is not increasing positive cues when using self-leadership to promote health and fitness?
a. displaying a sign on refrigerator to eat healthy diet
b. displaying an inspiring picture on wall of athlete performing well in physical sport in which you engage
c. removing TV from a frequently used room
d. placing exercise equipment in room to remind to use
Q:
Which of the following uses the removal of negative cues when using self-leadership to promote health and fitness?
a. removing candy dish from coffee table
b. moving TV to a less used room
c. changing driving route to avoid fast-food restaurants
d. putting treadmill in TV room
Q:
Which of the following is not an example of how Neck and Cooper suggest an adult diet should be made up of?
a. 20-25 percent daily calories from fat
b. 50-70 percent daily calories from complex carbohydrates
c. 10-20 percent of calories from protein sources
d. 25-35 percent daily calories from fat
Q:
How much moderate exercise do the American Heart Associations guidelines for optimal exercise suggest should be completed per day?
a. 20 minutes
b. 30 minutes
c. 45 minutes
d. 60 minutes
Q:
Which of the following is not a focal point of an effective exercise program according to Neck and Cooper?
a. endurance
b. strength
c. flexibility
d. yoga
Q:
Which of the following is not a positive psychological outcome related to fitness?
a. reduction in anxiety and depression
b. reduction in depression and tension
c. reduction in tension and anxiety
d. increase in tension and stress
Q:
Chapter 6: Team Self-Leadership: Sharing the Journey
Q:
With the increasing importance of teams in the workplace, describe the differences between groupthink and teamthink. How can self-leadership strategies reduce groupthink and increase teamthink?
Q:
Explain the basic premise of mental team self-leadership, and how (if it does) it differs from individual level self-leadership. What are the key collective mental strategies, and what does each skill add to mental team self-leadership?
Q:
What are the key behavioral team-self-leadership practices, and how do these differ from individual level approaches? Are these aspects of self-leadership ones that can only be applicable at the individual level, the team level, or both? Why?
Q:
How do the terms self-leadership and teams not contradict one another? What are the key components of team-self leadership and how do those (if they do) differ from individual self-leadership?
Q:
Discuss the role of synergy within a team and how synergy can lead to overall higher performance and greater accomplishments as compared to an individual effort. Provide an example that shows how synergy can be applied to explain why this may lead to greater performance.
Q:
When engaging in team self-leadership, individuals should still focus attention towards engaging in individual level self-leadership to lead to positive outcomes that can translate to the team level.
Q:
To be a team that effectively leads itself, its members should not engage in individual level self-leadership as that takes away focus from the team.
Q:
Individuals accomplish more together than they can accomplish individuals due to synergy.
Q:
One method to avoid groupthink in a team is to ______. a. agree with the predominant opinion b. rationalize a decision c. offer a divergent view d. keep quiet about concerns
Q:
Teamthink includes the following characteristics ______.
a. internal information
b. discussion of the collective doubts
c. self-censorship of views
d. social pressure for consistency
Q:
Leadership comes from and is received by all members of the team in which form of leadership?
a. external leadership
b. individual team self-leadership
c. shared leadership
d. team self-leadership
Q:
To be fully prepared and engaged in shared leadership, all team members must be capable of ______.
a. self-leading and leading others
b. self-leading and being led
c. leading other and being led
d. self-leading, leading others, and be led
Q:
The example from Miracle of the name on the front of the jersey is a helluva lot more important than the one on the back represents the concept of ______.
a. shared leadership
b. balancing the me with the we
c. individual self-leadership
d. team self-leadership
Q:
In a new, team-based environment, having a group of people who are capable self-leaders is ______ to guarantee the success of a team.
a. necessary and sufficient
b. necessary but not sufficient
c. sufficient but not necessary
d. neither necessary nor sufficient
Q:
Capable self-leaders are able to ______.
a. lead others when they possess relevant knowledge
b. be led by others when it is others who possess the relevant expertise
c. leading others and being led by others
d. only leading themselves
Q:
The dynamic interactive influence process in which team members lead one another to accomplish team goals successfully is ______.
a. Individual self-leadership
b. team self-leadership
c. shared leadership
d. external leadership
Q:
Collective team mental self-leadership strategies include ______.
a. mental imagery
b. team self-talk
c. thought patterns
d. all of these
Q:
The idea that teams can enhance their performance through the collective application of specific mental strategies is the basic premise of ______.
a. individual mental self-leadership
b. team mental self-leadership
c. team behavioral self-leadership
d. individual and team mental self-leadership
Q:
Extreme dysfunctional thinking (i.e., black and white thinking) at the team level can lead to what type of evaluations?
a. open-minded
b. ends of spectrum
c. all aspects of spectrum
d. none of these
Q:
Which of the following are types of mental strategies that a team could engage in when attempting to use team self-leadership?
a. mental imagery, team self-talk, and team self-goal setting
b. mental imagery and team self-reward
c. team self-talk, team beliefs and assumptions, and team rehearsal
d. team self-talk, team beliefs and assumptions, and thought patterns
Q:
In which of the following types of thinking can a team engage?
a. opportunity and pressurized
b. opportunity and obstacle
c. opportunity
d. obstacle and pressurized
Q:
Group-enforced conformity dialogue or group self-talk can lead to less ______.
a. performance
b. discussion
c. groupthink
d. effectiveness
Q:
Team self-goal setting requires the ______ to establish the goals.
a. team leader
b. team members
c. each individuals
d. the organization
Q:
When team members practice a presentation that will be presented to the organization, which behavioral team self-leadership strategies is being used as an example?
a. team self-observation
b. team rehearsal
c. team self-goal setting
d. mental strategies
Q:
When there is a team self-influence, reward and sanctions are provided by the ______.
a. individuals
b. organization
c. managers
d. team
Q:
An attempt by a team to remove items that lead to undesirable behaviors and increase items that lead to behaviors that are more desirable is team ______.
a. cue modification
b. self-punishment/self-reward
c. self-goal-setting
d. self-observation
Q:
All of the following are specific behavioral team self-leadership practices except team ______.
a. self-observation
b. cue modification
c. self-talk
d. self-punishment
Q:
A teams collective effort that purposefully understands antecedents and consequences associated with actions is team ______.
a. self-goal-setting
b. self-observation
c. self-reward
d. rehearsal
Q:
Do the terms teams and self-leadership contradict each other?
a. Yes, there is a contradiction.
b. Yes, the terms are opposites.
c. No, the terms are related.
d. No, the terms supplement the other term.
Q:
Team self-leadership is similar to individual self-leadership because they both involve the use of ______.
a. mental self-leadership strategies
b. behavioral self-leadership strategies
c. both mental and natural reward strategies
d. both mental and behavioral self-leadership strategies
Q:
All of the following are outcomes of leading yourself in a team except ______.
a. the team leading itself
b. the team reaching its potential
c. focus on individual rewards
d. achieving synergy
Q:
Which of the following is not a behavioral team self-leadership practice?
a. team self-reward
b. team extrinsic reward
c. team practice
d. team cue modification
Q:
The act of effectively leading yourself as a team member can lead to the team ______.
a. reaching its potential
b. participating in groupthink
c. not achieve synergy
d. create conflict
Q:
The application of mental and behavioral self-leadership strategies can lead to team members being more ______.
a. focused on natural rewards
b. self-motivated
c. self-directed and self-motivated
d. focused on natural rewards and more self-motivated
Q:
Estimates suggest that what percentage of North American businesses have some type of self-managed team?
a. 80-90%
b. 70-80%
c. 50-60%
d. 20-30%
Q:
What are now team tasks that were formerly management tasks?
a. conducting meetings
b. solving technical problems
c. assignment of tasks
d. all of these
Q:
All of the following are the results of having teams in the workplace except ______.
a. increased productivity
b. reduced costs
c. increased costs
d. reduced absenteeism
Q:
Teams work best when individuals have strong ______ skills.
a. individual skills and strong organizational
b. team
c. organizational skills and strong team
d. individual skills and strong team
Q:
The creation where individuals accomplish more together than they could if they acted on their own is ______.
a. teamthink
b. groupthink
c. synergy
d. self-leadership
Q:
An example of synergy within in a team would be ______.
a. 1+1 = 2
b. 1+1+1 = 5
c. 1+2 = 3
d. 1+1+1 = 3
Q:
An example of mental team self-leadership strategies that involve sharing a common vision and visualizing effective means for accomplishing goals is team self-talk.
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Team self-rewards are ways that teams reinforce their behaviors by providing only tangible rewards to one another and to the group as a whole that strengthen or increase those behaviors.
Q:
What is the difference between opportunity and obstacle thinking? Which of these approaches to thinking more aligns with the principles of self-leadership and why? Building on this, how can self-leadership be used to create a habitual thinking pattern?
Q:
What are the specific steps of the mental practice technique, and what are the benefits of each of these techniques?
Q:
What are dysfunctional beliefs and assumptions, and why is the removal of these critical for the effective self-leader? How can having positive and rational beliefs shape the actions and effectiveness of an individual?
Q:
Describe how the story of the Little Blue Engine exemplifies what positive self-talk is. What is the main focus of self-talk (changing what about an individuals thoughts and replacing what)?
Q:
How do individuals have their own unique psychological world? How do the senses impact what an individual focuses on, thinks about, and allows entering their mind? How does the psychological world that the individual creates impact the behaviors of that individual?
Q:
Our self-talk, beliefs, and imagined experiences all influence one another in our thought patterns.
Q:
The first and last steps of successful mental practicing involve closing your eyes.
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Sappers are types of self-talk that reduce energy, self-confidence, and happiness.
Q:
Negative self-talk involves demotivating concepts, while positive self-talk is motivating and unsupporting.
Q:
Our psychological worlds have an impact on the physical world.
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By making choices regarding what we focus on and what we think about, we inevitably make choices that shape our psychological worlds.
Q:
Disqualifying the positive, mental filters, overgeneralizations, and fortune telling are all forms of dysfunctional thinking.
Q:
What is true about the story of Jacques-Yves Cousteau? a. He went on a diving trip and fell in love with the ocean. b. After he finished pilot training with the Navy, he asked to be transferred to sea-duty. c. He continued to want to be a pilot after suffering a near fatal car crash. d. After a car crash, he could no longer fly, so he asked for sea-duty.
Q:
Which of the following are new views of failure?
a. Give up if you are failing.
b. Seek positive feedback and think about yourself.
c. Redefine success and find the opportunities of failure.
d. Define what you tried as a failure and move on to the next idea.
Q:
How can you enjoy meaningful success in life?
a. Learn from your failures.
b. Stop trying new ideas.
c. Keep doing what has been successful so far.
d. Dont ever fail.
Q:
Engaging in positive self-talk, challenging beliefs, and mental practice can lead to a reduction in ______.
a. opportunity but not obstacle thinking
b. obstacle but not opportunity thinking
c. opportunity and obstacle thinking
d. neither opportunity nor obstacle thinking
Q:
Engaging in positive self-talk, challenging beliefs, and mental practice can lead to ______.
a. opportunity but not obstacle thinking
b. obstacle but not opportunity thinking
c. opportunity and obstacle thinking
d. neither opportunity nor obstacle thinking
Q:
Individuals have the potential to engage in ______.
a. opportunity but not obstacle thinking
b. obstacle but not opportunity thinking
c. opportunity and obstacle thinking
d. neither opportunity nor obstacle thinking
Q:
If individuals engage in thinking with roadblocks and pitfalls of their ideas, they are engaging in ______ thinking.
a. opportunity
b. obstacle
c. habitual
d. negative