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WHAT IS A "WARRIOR"?
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Someone whose strong character enables them to make sacrifices for the team and achieve long term goals
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What do warriors defend?
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Personal Honor
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Name the four CAP core values
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Integrity First,Volunteer Service, Excellence in All We Do, Respect
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Which Core Value can be described as doing what is right, even when no one is looking?
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Integrity
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Which leadership term is defined as "the ability to direct your thoughts, emotions and actions toward a meaningful purpose?
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Self-Discipline
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Attitudes are said to be "contagious." Why is this so?
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It is visible to people around you.
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Why does society use oaths?
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An oath is a solemn promise usually made in public and involving promises for the public good.
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What does it mean to swear to an oath?
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A serious responsibility with your personal honor and reputation at stake.
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What is the root of all military customs and courtesies?
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Basic politeness and respect.
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Are military cusotms and courtesies supposed to make new cadets feel inferior? Why?
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No. Never. Customs and courtesies build team spirit and pride.
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Is a cadet's appearance important?
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One person's conduct reflects on the entire group.
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What affect does how you wear the uniform have on CAP?
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Looking sharp is a positive impression on CAP.
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What does it mean to jump the chain of command?
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To take an issue to a high=level leader without consulting immediate superiors.
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Should jumping the chain of command be encouraged or avoided?
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Avoided.
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What is the difference between giving and taking?
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Volunteer Service. Selflessness.
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Giving your best effort no matter the challenge is which CAP core value?
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Excellend in All We Do.
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Treating others as you would like to be treated is which CAP core value?
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Respect.
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What is the ability to monitor and judge your own actions?
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Self-Awareness
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What is the state of mind that lies behind your every action?
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Attitude
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All attiudes, good or bad, are what?
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Contagious
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What begins with the realization that attitude is a choice?
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Positive attitude or a negative attitude.
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Regardless of rank, who must answer for their actions?
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Everyone.
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Who is accountable to the American people?
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The President.
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What do cadets strengthen by habitually and cheefully rendering customs and courtesies?
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Self-discipline and positive attitude.
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What does wearing the uniform provide the cadet?
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Self-discipline, personal responsibility and self-respect.
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What is a measure of cadet's sense of self-discipline?
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Performance on the drill field.
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Drill requires attention to _______?
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Detail
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What is the order of authority?
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Chain of Command
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Final responsibility for getting a job done right ought to be assigned to whom?
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A single individual.
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The opposite of the chain of command is sometimes called what?
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Leadership by committee.
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How are authority and responsibility linked?
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If you get one, you get the other.
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What is the benefit of having a chain of command?
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Everyone is accountable to another leader.
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Most organizations have some type of _________?
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leadership hierarchy
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When does the chain of command function best?
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When people resolve issues at the lowest possible level.
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The price of admission to CAP
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The Core Values
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To lead others you must first be able to _________?
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Lead Yourself
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Ignoring the Core Values has ________?
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Consequences
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How do cadets differ from ordinary youth in a positive way?
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Customs and courtesies.
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What do leaders take responsibility for?
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Their actions.
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The process of directing and controlling your actions to achieve your goals.
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Self-Management
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What is a goal?
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A dream with a deadline.
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A clear and compelling description of what you want your life to look like is what?
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Future Picture
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What gives you a sense of mission, a meaningful purpose?
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Goals
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What can help you focus your time, energy and talents?
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Goals
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How do leaders make decisions?
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Follow a decision making process.
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Before making a decision you must do what?
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Stop and think, then define the problem and write it down.
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You can't make good decisions if you don't know the _____?
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Facts
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Facts can be confused with ____ and _____?
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Opinions and Assumptions
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A method of generating a large number of creative ideas?
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Brainstorming
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The goal of brainstorming is build a list of possible _______?
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Solutions
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People with a stake in the solution are _______?
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Stakeholders
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What should be considered when making decisions?
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Core Values
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What should you do before you decide and act?
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Pause if you can.
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How do you know if your decision is working?
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Re-evaluate and change course if necessary.
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Leaders who make bad initial decisions often get caught in the _________?
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Ethical Trap
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Why do leaders need to avoid "ethical traps"?
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One problem will lead to another.
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Why do you need self-managment skills?
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to succeed with short, medium and long-range goals
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Why do leaders need a process to make decisions?
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To avoid missing an important aspect of the problem.
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ID the 7 Steps in the Ethical Decision Making Process
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1. Define the problem
2. Get the facts 3. Brainstorm 4. Weigh Options 5. Consier Values 6. Decide and Act 7. Re-evaluate |
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How can you motivate followers to live the Core Values?
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Your Example
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What is time management?
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Organizing and using time wisely
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Reaching your goals depends on how you manage what?
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Your Time.
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What does it mean to be "efficient" in managing your time?
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Work smarter, not harder.
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What ways can leaders be more efficient?
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Pay attention. Come prepared. Focus on Goals. Do it Right the First Time. Sequence work. Maximize uptime.
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The practice of putting off for no good reason a task that should be done right now?
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Procrastination
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Breaking a job into small pieces will fight ______?
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Procrastination
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Why do people procrastinate?
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1. Fear of failure
2. Uncertainty 3. Where to start? 4. Unpleasant task 5. Desire to work fun things |
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If you are avoiding a task what should you do?
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Find out why
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Descirbe some ways to avoid procrastination
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1. Peace of mind.
2. Break the job into small pieces 3. Jump right in 4. Publicly commit to the work 5. Use rewards |
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Describe time management tools
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1. Keep a calendar
2. Wear a watch 3. Keep a notepad 4. Create lists 5. Make a time inventory 6. Allow for flexibility & fun |
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What should you say to opportunities that distract you from your goals?
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NO to unproductive work
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What is the time you are actually working?
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Uptime
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What is time spent waiting for the opportunity to work?
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Downtime
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Efficiency experts believe these are essential time management tools?
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Prioritized To Do Lists
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Knowing how you spend your time
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Making a Time Inventory
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People have a genuine need for these three things:
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Fun
Spontaneity Relaxation |
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The body's response to change:
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Stress
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A leader must manage and control ______?
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Stress in your life
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What should you say to opportunities that distract you from your goals?
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NO to unproductive work
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Anything that causes stress is called a __________?
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Stressor
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What is the time you are actually working?
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Uptime
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Who is more prone to stress, adults or young people?
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Young people
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What is time spent waiting for the opportunity to work?
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Downtime
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Efficiency experts believe these are essential time management tools?
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Prioritized To Do Lists
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Knowing how you spend your time
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Making a Time Inventory
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People have a genuine need for these three things:
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Fun
Spontaneity Relaxation |
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The body's response to change:
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Stress
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A leader must manage and control ______?
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Stress in your life
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Anything that causes stress is called a __________?
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Stressor
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Who is more prone to stress, adults or young people?
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Young people
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Which years are among the most stressful in a person's life?
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The teen years.
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The ability to bounce back and recover from adversity?
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Resilience
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7 Steps Used to Manage Stress
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1. Fix the problem
2. Avoid downers 3. Let some things go 4. Exercise 5. Relax 6. Eat well 7. Sleep well |
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People who fix their problems tend to be _________?
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Emotionally Healthy
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Most important part of a plan to manage stress?
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Exercise
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Relaxation techniques can help fool your body into
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a relaxed feeling
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Important part of any healthy lifestyle
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Good Nutrition
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How many hours of sleep do teens require?
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9-10
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Not being able to cope with stress positively can result in _____________?
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Losing the battle with stress
Start a pattern of failure Failing to lead others |
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TEAM means
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Together Everyone Achieves More
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A collection of individuals committed to working together on a common goal
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TEAM
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Using individual special skills to advantage in a group
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Team Diversity
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When teams look to each other as much as the boss
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Team Leadership
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This is important in teams because it builds trust
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Team Spirit
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The idea that by working together the team achieves more than individuals
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Team Power or SYNERGY
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Four Characteristics of Good Team Players
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1. Self-Discipline
2. Selflessness 3. Enthusiasm 4. Loyalty |
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Effective team members possess this that makes them dependable.
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Self-discipline
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Teamwork always requires ________?
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Sacrifice
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Enthusiasm is __________?
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Contagious
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A team member demonstrates loyalty by ________?
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Faithful to members
Supportive of the leader Committed to the mission |
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A close, trusted, experienced advisor
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Mentor
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Mentor showing how to act with attitudes, behaviors and values leading to success
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Mentor as a Role Model
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Mentor motivating and encouraging
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Mentor as a Challenger
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Mentor being a close and trusted advisor
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Mentor as a Friend
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Mentor showing new cadets around CAP
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Mentor as a CAP Guide
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Mentor teaching and providing feedback
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Mentor as a Tutor
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A mentor's efforts to help you will be meaningless unless you are _______?
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Eager to Learn
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Mentoring works best when you are _______?
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Humble
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Mentoring works best when you are ________?
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Ambitious
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Mentors job is to help people help _______?
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Themselves
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Mentors are responsible for doing their own ______ and solving their own _______?
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Work and problems
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Great communicators are great __________?
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Leaders
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If a leader cannot communicate well he is ____________?
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Useless
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Who models the attitudes, behaviors and values that lead to success?
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Mentors
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What is the most neglected communication skill?
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Listening
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What is the process of receiving, deciphering & responding to spoken and non-verbal messages?
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Listening
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Focusing intently on a speakers message?
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Listening
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A direct effect on your success as a cadet is your ability to _________?
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Listen
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To be attentive listeners, good leaders use
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Self-Discipline
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Compare Listening vs Hearing?
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Listeners focus on meaning
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We should spend twice as much time listening as we do _________?
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Talking
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Hearing what we expect to hear causes _______?
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Assumptions
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Deep, genuine listening is impossible when you are ___________?
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Not Paying Attention
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What might make you tune out a speaker?
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Prejudice
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When the speakers mouth opens, __________?
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Close yours and open your ears
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Outside factors can affect your ability to concentrate so you must __________?
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Adjust to the Situation
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Listen to everything but focus on ___________?
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Key Points
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Facial expressions and gestures are _________?
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Non-verbal Cues to meaning
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Making a connection between a speakers main point and other lessons you've learned is
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Thinking in Context
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Summarizing a speakers main points is the purpose of
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Note Taking
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Responding to a speaker in a way that reflects your best understanding is how you
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Confirm the Message
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The main goal of communication
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Share Meaning
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When you return to the speaker a portion of their message
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Feedback
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The most important feedback tool
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Asking Questions
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Asking questions and receiving answers is a
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Dialogue
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When the listener and speaker work to share meaning it is a form of
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Teamwork
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Knowledge questions ask ______?
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What?
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Understanding questions ask _______?
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Why?
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Synthesis questions ask _______?
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How?
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Reading widely is one of the best ways to become a
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Better Leader
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Examining, analyzing and evaluating the writers message is
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Critical Reading
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SQ3R
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Survey, Question, Read, Recall, Review
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Before you actually read
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Survey the text
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Turn the title, chapter headings and subheadings into:
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Questions
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Successful readers use a _________in hand to __________
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Pencil
Annotate in the margins |
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Once finished with reading, immediately try to _______ what you've read
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Recall
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What helps you truly understand what you've just read?
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Recall
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Looking over your questions, annotations, notes & text to keep learning fresh is
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REVIEW
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Avoid "cramming" for a test by constant
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REVIEW
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The man who doesn't read has no advantage over _______?
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The man who can't
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The bulk of your self-education comes from?
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Reading
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"The art and science of influencing and directing people to accomplish the assigned mission."
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The Air Force definition of Leadership
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Why is leadership an art?
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Requires imagination and creative skill
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Because it is an academic subject requiring study, leadership is a
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Science
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Freedom to express leadership is an
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Art
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Demands on leaders to think before acting makes leadership a
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Science
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Leaders work with
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People
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The leaders most important duty is
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Accomplishing the Mission
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The reason the team exists
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The Mission
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Is there a universally agreed upon definition of leadership?
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No
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What three components are in the definition of "Leadership"?
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Leader
Follower Goal |
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The attitudes, customs and values of a civilization as to leadership
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Culture
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American society is built on
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Democratic Values
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Leadership does not equal command but all commanders should be
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LEADERS
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Leaders are Made, not _______?
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Born
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Everyone has the potential for _______?
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Leadership
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With power comes ______?
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Responsibility
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Absolute power corrupts _________?
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Absolutely
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Genuine leaders do not use tools of __________?
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Threats
Coercion Extortion |
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Bad leadership implies no __________?
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Leadership
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Leadership is valued as a moral _________?
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Necessity
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Leaders who paint an inspiring future for the whole team?
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Visionary Leaders
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Strong leaders are in demand because they must fill many different
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Capacities
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To bring someone to a new place means
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To Lead
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17 years before Pearl Harbor he warned Japan could attack Hawaii by air
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Billy Mitchell
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A skillful leader understands how to issue a _________?
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Challenge
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Motivation is more than
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Cheering
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Motivational leaders inspire people to
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Achieve
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Competitions encourage cadets to ________
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Motivate each other
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Cadets motivate their friends in good times and bad as __________
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Wingmen
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Making complex ideas easy to understand is the work of a
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Communicator
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People judge leaders by their _______, not their words
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Conduct
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Possessing expert knowledge helps a leader establish
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Credibilty and Respect
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Jimmy Doolittle earned one of the first PhD's in
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Aeronautics
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To be effective leaders, cadets need to be _______________
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experts in cadet life
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In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence
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Peter Principle
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Good leadership is good __________
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Teaching
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Ranking cadets are constantly teaching because their actions are _______
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always on display
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Responsibility to teach junior cadets allows experienced cadets to hone
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leadership skills
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Leaders who have all the answers make the team ___________
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dependent on them
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Leaders communicate, teach and inspire - sometimes all at the same _______
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time
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To study leadership, focus on the life stories of successful people
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Great Man Theory
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One would not presume to challenge the example set by
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The Great Men
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Leaders are presumed to be acquainted with the
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Biographies of Great Men
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According to the Great Man Theory, leadership is
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born, not made
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A Leader in Training
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Cadet
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Experience, education and situation impact leadership more than the
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Great Man Theory
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Leadership is built from experience, education and training
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Air Force doctrine of leadership
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Leadership in terms of the personality and character of the leader
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Trait Theory
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Each leader is unique in their _________ qualities and their _________to leading
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Personal
Approach |
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CAP transforms cadets into leaders by
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Academics
Activities Staff Service AF Traditions |
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What is the major weakness in trait theory?
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No one agrees on the traits which make a good leader
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Trait theory suggests leaders can command all situations with the same basic ______
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gifts
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Trait theory centers on an individual's _________
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personality
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What remains elusive and not easily explained?
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Leadership
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The most important and recognized national symbol
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The Aermican flag
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June 14, 1777
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Congress created the flag
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June 14th
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Flag Day
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Congress has asked the flag be displayed with
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RESPECT
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Flag touching the ground, flag in advertising, flag upside down
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Taboos for the flag
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