Leadership Strategies for Women

Leadership Strategies for Women Linkedin Answers

FINAL EXAM

Course Link: Ethics and Gender Equality (linkedin.com)

1. Jack is scheduling a meeting for a cross-functional event. He wants to have a successful meeting by having everyone contribute and hearing from all perspectives. Which tip would you recommend Jack use for his meeting?

Have equal numbers.

Use agendas wisely.

Make debate the norm.

Rotate meeting leadership.

2. Which action should you avoid when you want to get more useful feedback?

Develop relationships with multiple leaders in the company.

Ask more specific questions.

Ask your boss what they did to prove proficiency on a specific competency.

Ask broad questions.

3. Which action would you encourage your male allies avoid if they want to be allies to women?

Speak up.

Show up.

Listen up.

Be complacent.

4. One of Zoe’s goals is to optimize the time she is spending on her skills, particularly the ones she wants to develop. There is a project in which she is interested. Which strategy should she avoid?

Offer to take the last option left or what no one else wants.

Explicitly state what she wants or does not want.

Decline to take any grunt work.

Plan ahead for what she wants to do on the project.

5. Frances has asked you to help her practice for a presentation she is giving to her colleagues. You notice she uses the words so and really. Which tip would you recommend Frances use in her presentation?

Give clear directives.

Try not to hedge.

Avoid intensifiers.

Instill credibility.

6. Ailani is having a conversation with her coworker Andre. To ensure they won’t have a misunderstanding, what should they NOT do?

Assume a nod is an agreement.

Ask questions.

Provide verbal cues.

Define the conversation.

7. Which is the least likely reason a woman would be a great negotiator?

taking an “it’s all about the money” approach.

being a strong advocate for others

paying close attention to relationships

identifying more creative options

8. A _ is a situation in which a person receives conflicting messages.

triple bind

nonverbal conversation

double bind

formal communication

9. A male mentor who is not explicit about the relationship parameters does not meet openly with a mentee, does not express motives, and does not do any research faces _.

being fired from a job

the distribution dilemma

the developmental dilemma

being demoted

10. Which strength is not true of how women think?

deep concentration on a single task

quick transitions between tasks

seeing connections between apparently different things