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37. A leader who is fostering compassion, forgiveness, and gratitude among followers is
seeking to create a ______.
a. positive climate
b. hostile environment
c. cult
d. emotional support system
38. A manager who wants employees to share information and ideas freely should seek
to develop ______.
a. unrealized strengths
b. hostile environment
c. positive communication
d. learned behaviors
39. What requires you to concentrate on your positive attributes and those times when
you feel most inspirited?
a. Developing your strengths
b. Implementing change
c. Discovering your strengths
d. Identifying your weaknesses
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40. What organization interviewed over 2 million people about their strengths and what
made them good at what they did?
a. Center for Leadership
b. Values in Action Institute
c. The Gallup Organization
d. Centre for Applied Positive Psychology
41. A young manager focuses on his subordinates’ weaknesses and uses negative
language during team meetings. As their supervisor, you might recommend they
develop ______.
a. learned behaviors
b. positive relationships
c. team goals
d. group meaning
42. In valuing engaged and productive followers, a leader should help connect the
______ of their work to their values and impact.
a. meaning
b. vision
c. communication
d. relationships
43. A leader who is competent in making ideas become reality, but not in working well
with a team should identify followers with strengths in which domain?
a. Strategic thinking
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b. Relationship building
c. Executing
d. Influencing
44. Your strengths represent the best you have to offer in ______ others.
a. controlling
b. influencing
c. manipulating
d. controlling and manipulating
45. Which approach to strengths has the highest number of strengths?
a. Gallup (Strengths of Competence)
b. VIA (Strengths of Character)
c. CAPP (Strengths Fully Realized)
d. they all contain the same number
46. In the American culture, expressing positive self-attributes is often seen as ______.
a. normal
b. unique
c. impressive
d. boastful
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47. A fundamental difference of the strengths perspective is that they focus on what is
______ with people.
a. right
b. wrong
c. undervalued
d. impressive
48. Strengthsfinder focuses on strengths in work, while the VIA classification focuses on
strengths of ______.
a. employment
b. character
c. personality
d. demeanor
49. The Centre of Applied Positive Psychology argues that strengths are fluid and can
emerge through different ______.
a. assessments
b. activities
c. experiences
d. criteria
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50. How many established theories about the practice of strength-based leadership
exist?
a. 3
b. 5
c. 7
d. no currently established theories exist on this topic
51. The difference between a strength and a trait is that ______.
a. a strength is a skill
b. a strength is an applied trait
c. a trait can be developed like a skill
d. a trait is a highly developed capacity
52. Which of the following strengths best explain how Mary Kay Ash built her successful
multi-level marketing company?
a. Discovering her strengths
b. Developing her strengths
c. Addressing her weaknesses
d. Recognizing and engaging the strengths of others
True/False
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1. A strength is an attribute or quality of an individual that accounts for successful
performance.
2. Positive psychology is the study of how to get employees to do what you want them
to do.
3. Strengths emerge from talents.
4. The strengths outlined by the StrengthsFinder are more closely tied to the person’s
character whereas the VIA strengths focus more on the workplace.
5. Unrealized strengths are those ingrained things we have learned throughout our life
experience.
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6. Leaders should be able to identify their weaknesses in addition to recognizing their
strengths.
7. A key aspect of strengths leadership is being able to engage the strengths of others.
8. Leaders need to ascertain followers’ strengths only from what followers explicitly
express to leaders.
9. Every one of us has identifiable leadership strengths, areas in which we excel or
thrive.
10. Extraordinary individuals are distinguished less by their ability to identify their
strengths than by their impressive raw power.
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Essay
1. Explain and differentiate between the disease model and positive psychology. Where
does each have a role in explaining leadership?
2. What is the difference between themes of human talent and Strengths?
3. Explain the key difference between StrengthsFinder and VIA Classification. How are
each useful to leadership development?
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4. What are two of your realized strengths and two of your unrealized strengths?
5. Briefly discuss the four areas leaders need to consider in order to create a positive
work environment
6. Discuss the four steps to incorporate strengths into your personal and work settings.
Include examples of how you have enacted these steps in your leadership.
7. Northouse states that the challenge we face is identifying our strengths and them
employing them effectively in our leadership and personal lives. Discuss a personal
example of discovering a strength and how you have engaged that strength in
leadership settings.
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8. Strength, like leadership, has a cultural dimension where what one culture sees as a
strength, others may see as something to keep hidden. Analyze this dynamic of
strengths and leadership and provide context for your answer.
9. Analyze the Leadership Snapshot of Steve Jobs for examples of strengths and
weaknesses. What contributed to his successes? To his failures?
10. Explain the four domains of strengths and discuss how a leader can use them to
create high performing teams.
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