Skills Approach

Leadership

What is Bloom’s Taxonomy used for?

A hierarchy of cognitive skills used to classify learning levels.

What are the six levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy?

Remember, Understand, Apply, Analyze, Evaluate, Create.

What are the four foundational leadership approaches?

Trait, Skills, Behavioral, Situational.

What are additional leadership theories listed in the PPT?

Path-Goal, LMX, Transformational, Authentic, Servant, Adaptive, Followership, Gender & Leadership, Ethics, Team Leadership.

What is the Skills Approach?

A leader‑centric approach focusing on the skills leaders can learn and develop.

How does the Skills Approach work?

It is descriptive, provides a map for effective leadership, and emphasizes learned skills over innate traits.

What does the Skills Approach emphasize?

That leadership skills can be developed and vary by leader level.

What are Katz’s three leadership skills?

Technical, Human, Conceptual.

What is Technical skill?

Specialized competencies, analytical ability, essential for producing products/services.

What is Human skill?

Ability to work with followers, peers, and superiors; facilitates cooperation.

What is Conceptual skill?

Ability to work with ideas, strategy, vision, and broad organizational goals.

Which skill is most important at top management?

Conceptual.

Which skill is most important at supervisory level?

Technical.

Which skill is important at all levels?

Human.

What was the Skills Model based on?

Research on 1,800 U.S. Army officers.

What question does the Skills Model try to answer?

Why some leaders are better problem solvers than others.

What are the five main components of the Skills Model?

Competencies, Individual Attributes, Career Experiences, Environmental Influences, Leadership Outcomes.

What are the three competency categories?

Problem-solving skills, Social judgment skills, Knowledge.

What are the nine problem-solving skills in the Skills Model?

Problem definition, cause/goal analysis, constraint analysis, planning, forecasting, creative thinking, idea evaluation, wisdom, sensemaking/visioning.

What is Social Judgment?

The ability to understand people and social systems.

What are the four social judgment subskills?

Perspective taking, social perceptiveness, behavioral flexibility, social performance.

What is Knowledge in the Skills Model?

Accumulated information, mental structures (schemas), and experience that support problem solving and social judgment.

What are the individual attributes in the Skills Model?

General cognitive ability, crystallized cognitive ability, motivation, personality.

How do career experiences affect leadership?

They shape and enhance competencies over time.

What are environmental influences?

Internal and external factors that impact performance but are outside the leader’s control.

What are the leadership outcomes in the Skills Model?

Effective problem solving and performance.

What are the strengths of the Skills Approach?

First model centered on skills, intuitive, expansive, actionable, more nuanced than trait/behavioral views.

What are the weaknesses of the Skills Approach?

Too broad, weak predictive value, unclear relationships between factors, military origin limits generalization, may not apply to all contexts.

How can the Skills Approach be applied?

Identifying leader strengths/weaknesses, designing leadership development, usable across organizational levels.

What should you consider when applying the Skills Model to your career?

Which skills matter most, which you already have, which need development, and what experiences can build them.

What skills does the Army try to build in recruits?

Discipline, resilience, obedience, teamwork, adaptability.

Which of these skills translate to other leadership contexts?

Teamwork, discipline, adaptability, resilience.