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Define Personality
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The sum of thoughts, feelings and behaviors that make someone unique.
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What is Nature vs Nurture?
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Whether inborn qualities or personal experiences shape who we are.
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What are the Arguments for Nature?
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DNA, Identical twins grow up similarly even if separated
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What are the Arguments for Nurture?
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"Tabula Rasa" - Latin for every baby is born with a mind that is a bland slate; We are formed by our life's events.
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Define Nature vs Nurture Today?
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We are affected by both our genes and our environment.
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What is the Implication for Leaders?
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Leaders cannot change human nature but can impact environment by their example.
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Describe Birth Order Theory
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A persons rank within a family determines personality and intelligence.
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Arguments for Birth Order Theory?
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Many company presidents & Congress members are first born. Many last born tend to be rebels.
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Arguments Against Birth Order Theory?
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Post Hoc Fallacy (unrelated to each other); other factors determine success like family ecomonics & major life events
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How is Birth Order Relevant to Leaders?
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May help leaders understand why people behave.
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Characteristics of Only Child
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Spoiled, self-centered, uncooperative, over-reliant on authority
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Leadership Approaches to Only Child
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Appeal to sense of their special qualities; challenge them to see how their personal goals are also team's.
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Characteristics of First Child
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Control over younger children,enjoys being right, strives to please & succeed
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Leadership Approaches to First Child
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Challenge them to excel, appeal to their desire to achieve.
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Characteristics of Middle Child
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Feels left out or unloved & forgotten, feels life is unfair, rebellious, learns to compromise
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Leadership Approaches to Middle Child
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Emphasize sense of belonging; honor of being a cadet; seek to challenge their rebelliousness; ask them to be innovators
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Characteristics of Younger Child
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Feels inferior, always "the baby", used to being the center of attention
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Leadership Approaches to Youngest Child
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Appeal to their special qualities & give them special attention; take them seriously & challenge them to do something special for the team
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Define "Charisma"
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The sparkle in people that money can't buy; the special aspect of personality that makes someone truly unique; magnetic personality, unique flair, special qualities hard to describe or imitate
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What Charisma means to Leaders?
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Can make a leader appear heroic, larger than life & incredibly effective
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Name Some Beloved Charismatic Leaders
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MLK, Ronald Reagan, Oprah Winfrey
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How can strong charisma be counter-productive?
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Surrounds leaders with "yes-men" & convinces them they are infallible
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Can you make yourself more charismatic & still be true to who you are?
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NO - Charisma is the result of effective leadership, not the other way around.
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What are the 4 Arenas of the Johari Window?
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Public, Private, Blind, Unknown
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What is the Public Arena?
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Personality features known to the public and yourself
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What is the Blind Arena?
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Personality features unknown to you but known to others
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What is the Private Arena?
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Personality features know to you but unknown to others.
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What is the Unknown Arena?
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Everything in your personality unknown to you and all others
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What is the Johari Window?
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A tool for exploring our self-perception
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Joe Luft & Harrington Ingham developed what?
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The Johair Window
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Over 900 people committed suicide in blind devotion to which leader in 1978?
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Jim Jones - The Horror of Jonestown
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Which president has great charisma but also lied under oath?
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Bill Clinton
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Why does Forrest Gump admire Lt Dan?
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Charisma
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Feedback allows you to expand __________
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what you know about yourself
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You can avoid blind spots that hinder your success by __________
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paying attention to what people tell you about your behavior
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Self Disclosure
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Process of telling others what they did not know about you
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The better people know you, the ___________it is to ______ with you and _______ you.
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easier it is to work with you and support you
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Leaders self-disclose verbally and _________
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by their behavior
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Non-verbal means of self-disclosure
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actions, visible attitude, gestures, tone of voice
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The most successful teams have a healthy attitude towarde ________
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self-disclosure
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Isabel Briggs Myers & Katherine Cook Briggs created the __________
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Myers-Briggs Type Indicator or MBTI
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How many personality types are in the MBTI?
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16
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Will every person fit into one?
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Yes
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Which of the types is best?
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None
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MBTI attempts to describe ___________
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different flavors of personality
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MBTI looks at how many dimensions of personality?
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4
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Extroversion vs Introversion
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Where do you get your energy?
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Extroverts enjoy spending time with ___________
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People; the more the better, talk to think, are vocal, act then think, like to be in the action
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Introverts prefer to direct their energy to ________
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Ideas, imagination and inner thoughts; think then act, enjoy time alone, avoid being the ctr of attn; listen more than talk; are quiet
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Intuition vs Sensing Dimension
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What kind of information do you naturally notice?
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Each MBTI dimension has how many preferences?
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Two
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How many MBTI dimensions?
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Four
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How many total possible combinations?
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16
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MBTI offers a useful way to talk about ______
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personality
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MBTI supports how leaders understand __________ so they can be more effective with _______
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themselves, others
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MBTI can help the search for a ________
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career
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Doing What Should Be Done
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ISTJ - introvert, sensor, thinker, judger
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A High Sense of Duty
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ISFJ - introvert, sensor, feeler, judger
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An Inspiration to Others
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INFJ - introvert, intuitive, feeler, judger
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Just Ask and I Can Improve Anything
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INTJ - introvert, intuitive, thinker, judger
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Ready to Try Anything Once
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ISTP - Introvert, sensor, thinker, perceiver
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See Much But Shares Little
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ISFP - introvert, sensor, feeler, perceiver
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Quietly and Nobly Serving Society
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INFP - invtrovert, intuitive, feeler, perceiver
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A Love of Problem Solving
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INTP - introvert, intuitive, thinker, perceiver
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The Ultimate Realists
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ESTP - extrovert, sensor, thinker, perceiver
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You Only Go Around Once in Life
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ESFP - extrovert, sensor, feeler, perceiver
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Giving Life an Extra Squeeze
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ENFP - extrovert, intuitive, feeler, perceiver
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One Exciting Challenge After Another
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ENTP - extrovert, intuitive, thinker, perceiver
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Happiness is Following the Rules
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ESTJ - extrovert, sensor, thinker, judger
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Hosts and Hostesses of the World
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ESFJ - extrovert, sensor, feeler, judger
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The Public Relations Specialists
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ENFJ - extrovert, intuitive, feeler, judger
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Everything's Fine: I'm In Charge
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ENTJ - extrovert, intuitive, thinker, judger
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The Ultimate "F", admired for her heart more than her logic
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Mother Teresa
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What are the 4 Dimensions of Type?
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Extroversion vs Introversion; Intuition vs Sensing; Thinking vs Feeling; Judging vs Perceiving
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What are the 8 MBTI preferences of type?
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Extroverts, Introverts, Sensors, Intuitives, Thinkers, Feelers, Judgers, Perceivers
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