Leadership, Multiple Intelligences, and Communication

Comprehensive vocabulary flashcards covering multiple intelligences, power dynamics, leadership theories, contemporary leadership styles, emotional intelligence frameworks, and organizational communication.

Physical Intelligence

The awareness, control, motor skills, and endurance that allow for the effective use of one's body and appropriate response to physical demands, which is essential for kinesiologists.

Social Intelligence

The ability to navigate social interactions, understand group dynamics, build relationships, adapt to diverse individuals, cultivate cooperation, and manage conflicts across interdisciplinary teams, athletes, and broader communities.

Economic Intelligence

The capacity to understand and efficiently manage resources—including budgeting and funding—to secure organizational sustainability across sports organizations, fitness enterprises, and public health programs.

Political Intelligence

Awareness of power structures and the capacity to influence policy, organizational direction, and decision-making while advocating for resources, negotiating, and shaping public policy in health and sport.

Personal Power

The capacity to influence and alter someone's behaviour, action, or attitude, arising from the relationship between a leader and a follower.

Reward Power

A form of power based on a leader's ability to provide rewards and value to followers.

Coercive Power

A form of power grounded in a leader's ability to distribute consequences and penalties.

Legitimate Power

Power and influence held over others purely as a result of an official title or position.

Referent Power

Power derived from a relationship built on the personal qualities, characteristics, and experience exhibited by the leader.

Expert Power

Power rooted in a leader's superior knowledge, specialized skills, or professional expertise.

Leadership

The large, organized process in which an individual influences a group of people by providing vision, inspiration, charisma, and direction.

Great Man Theory

An early leadership theory proposing that individuals are born with the natural ability to lead, with a name derived from the historical assumption that leadership was male-dominated.

Trait Theories

Leadership theories positing that specific leader traits inherently exist, are repeated, and are passed down.

Behaviourist Theories

Leadership theories asserting that a leader's actions matter more than static qualities ($\text{actions} > \text{qualities}$), meaning behavioral patterns define leadership patterns.

Situational Leadership

A model stating that different situations demand different types of leaders, such as emergency situations requiring authoritative leadership.

Contingency Theory

A leadership theory focused on planning which leadership style will best suit a situation by taking various situational factors into consideration.

McGregor's Theory

The principle that leadership strategies are fundamentally influenced by a leader's underlying assumptions regarding human nature.

Sticky Communication

The ability to communicate messages in a way that makes them memorable, persuasive, and clear, thereby boosting engagement, recall, and relationship strength.

Hook

A presentation technique designed to shift the audience's mood and capture attention, utilizing questions, humor, surprising statistics, or analogies.

Emotional Intelligence

The ability to recognize, regulate, connect with, and empathize with emotions, comprised of four pillars: self-awareness, social awareness, self-management, and relationship management.

Active Listening

A structured feedback process that progresses from listening with full attention and no distractions, to analyzing and waiting, to checking understanding via nonverbal cues.

Leader-Member Exchange (LMX) Theory

A leadership framework focusing on the reciprocal exchange of feelings, trust, support, and performance, recognizing that leader-member relationships vary in quality.

In-Group (LMX Theory)

Followers who maintain high-quality, trusted relationships with the leader, contributing more and being regarded as more valuable.

Out-Group (LMX Theory)

Followers who maintain lower-exchange, more formal relationships with the leader and are perceived as less valuable.

Transactional Leadership

A leadership style centered on structured tasks, clear expectations, rewards, and penalties, designed for expected performance and low turnover rather than organizational transformation.

Transformational Leadership

A leadership approach focused on inspiration, motivation, and shared vision to drive innovation, personal development, higher follower self-esteem, and surpassed expectations.

Authoritarian Leadership

A classic command-and-control leadership style built on strict leader-follower hierarchy, most suitable in emergencies.

Participative Leadership

A classic leadership style characterized by active follower involvement and open communication channels.

Laissez-Faire Leadership

A hands-off leadership style where the leader steps back and places complete trust in group members to operate autonomously.

Coercive Leadership Style

A contemporary, top-down leadership style demanding immediate compliance, most effective in turnaround situations or when dealing with problem personnel.

Authoritative Leadership Style

A contemporary leadership style focused on making independent decisions, stating clear expectations, and driving efficient outcomes.

Affiliative Leadership Style

A contemporary leadership style prioritizing people, empathy, healing, harmony, and open communication.

Democratic Leadership Style

A contemporary leadership style that balances tasks and relationships by actively soliciting input, collaboration, and group participation.

Pacesetting Leadership Style

A contemporary leadership style characterized by high standards, conscientiousness, and quick results under the directive 'do as I do now.'

Coaching Leadership Style

A contemporary leadership style aimed at long-term personal development and building self-awareness within members.

Management

An administrative function focused on work, policies, procedures, power and control, reactive handling of subordinates, planning details, and maintaining existing structures.

Communication Breakdown ($73-20-7$ Rule)

The breakdown of communication tools consisting of $73\%$ body language, $20\%$ tone, and $7\%$ actual words.

Encoding (Interpersonal Communication)

The sender's formulation of information, meaning, and intent into a message while avoiding barriers such as poor wording, excess information, and lack of logical order.

Decoding (Interpersonal Communication)

The receiver's process of interpreting a transmitted message, which requires active listening, assessing trust and credibility, and keeping emotions in check before sending feedback.

Horizontal Communication

Organizational communication occurring across individuals or units positioned at the same hierarchical level.