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Leadership Today: Practices for Personal and Professional Performance

Joan Marques, Satinder Dhiman

Chapter 17

Leadership and Self-Confidence - all with Video Answers

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Chapter Questions

Problem 1

What are the two types of self-confidence described in this chapter and what role does each play in our lives?

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Problem 2

Consider a very recent experience where you failed to meet your own standards of excellence. Did the failure impact your specific self-confidence? If so, how and why? If not, why not?

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Problem 3

Think about a leader whom you have observed close-up, such as your boss, another manager, officer, politician, or religious leader. Do vou think that he or she has a strong sense of general self confidence or not? Drawing on the material in this chapter, as well as your own experience, explain what led you to that conclusion.

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Problem 4

You have been randomly assigned as the leader of a group of peers who have volunteered to arrange an event for your club or class or school. What would you do to ensure that each of you contributes as effectively as possible to the task?

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Problem 5

Select one thing that you are not confident about doing but that you need to do either now or in the near future. Jot down some ways that you can mentally prepare yourself for it, drawing on the techniques described in the last section of this chapter.

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Emily Himsel
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