Leadership Styles and Communication Flashcards

Leadership Styles

• Leadership: Ability to influence others effectively.
• Authoritative: Leader makes decisions independently, with minimal or no input from the team.
• Participative: Also known as democratic leadership; emphasizes group involvement in decision-making.
• Laissez-Faire: Delegative approach where leaders allow members to make decisions with little guidance.
• Abdicratic: A leadership style where no individual assumes a leadership role within the group.

Communication Styles

• Verbal Communication: Most common form, encompassing speaking and being spoken to.
• Non-verbal Communication: Accompanies verbal communication, expressing thoughts and feelings without words.
• Body Language: Nonverbal cues such as posture and gestures that convey messages.
• Facial Gestures: Nonverbal signals, including expressions like smiling, that indicate tone.
• Electronic Media: Modern communication forms, including emails and text messages.

Group Dynamics and Communication Concepts

• Group Dynamics: Examines how members of an organization collaborate to reach shared objectives.
• Channel or Medium: Refers to the method used to convey a message.
• Communication: Process of exchanging thoughts, opinions, or information through speech, writing, or signs.

Logical Fallacies and Feedback

• Either/Or Fallacy: Frames issues as having only two opposing choices, neglecting nuance.
• Feedback: Responses or reactions from the receiver regarding the communication received.
• Focusing: The act of maintaining attention on the speaker or content.

Communication Challenges

• Glittering Generalities: Use of vague, impressive language that lacks concrete meaning or evidence.
• Hearing: The physiological ability to perceive sounds.
• Message: The subject or significance of the information conveyed.
• Noise: Any distraction that hinders message comprehension.

Additional Communication Elements

• Paralinguistic: Concerns voice modulation aspects such as tone, pitch, and inflection.
• Primary Source: Direct or eyewitness accounts of events, providing first-hand information.
• Propaganda: Information skewed to promote a specific agenda while undermining others.
• Proximity: The spatial relationship between the speaker and the audience.
• Receiver: The target individual or group intended to receive the communicated information.
• Secondary Source: Any document that analyzes or describes events rather than offering direct testimony.