Leadership Skills Quiz

Leadership skills are best described as:

• Innate talents that cannot be learned

• Competencies that can be developed and improved

• Fixed personality traits

• Social behaviors only

Chapter 6 identifies three basic kinds of leadership skills. They are:

• Technical, financial, strategic

• Administrative, interpersonal, conceptual

• Charismatic, motivational, influential

• Practical, ethical, cultural

Skills are different from traits because:

• Skills are natural abilities

• Skills are competencies that can be learned and practiced

• Traits are always visible

• Traits are less important for leadership

Developing leadership skills helps leaders:

• Avoid challenges

• Build competence and confidence

• Eliminate decision-making

• Rely on followers' strengths alone

Leadership skills are useful because they:

• Guarantee charisma

• Enable leaders to accomplish tasks effectively

• Eliminate the need for teamwork

• Depend only on intelligence

Administrative skills are primarily concerned with:

• Planning, organizing, and coordinating

• Inspiring followers only

• Solving personal conflicts

• Ethical reasoning

Which of the following is an example of administrative skill?

• Negotiating peace treaties

• Preparing a budget and scheduling staff

• Giving emotional support

• Generating abstract ideas

Managing people as an administrative skill includes:

• Understanding staff needs and skills

• Controlling emotions

• Inspiring creativity only

• Avoiding delegation

The ability to allocate resources efficiently is part of:

• Interpersonal skills

• Conceptual skills

• Administrative skills

• Technical traits

An effective administrator is often described as:

• Visionary and abstract thinker

• Practical, efficient, and organized

• Detached from day-to-day work

• Focused only on relationships