Update 2025-2026
Mission Statement - Answers short sentence that defines the schools, goals, philosophies, and
purpose
Vision Statement - Answers description of what the school would like to achieve or accomplish
in the future
Core Values - Answers serve as a basis for traits and descriptions of how individuals should act
and what to base their decisions on
Conversational Leadership - Answers leaders international use of conversation as the core
process to cultivate the collective intelligence needed to create business and social value
6 Processes of Conversational Leadership - Answers Clarify purpose and strategic intent,
explore critical issues and questions, engage stakeholders, skillfully use collaborative social
technologies, guiding collective intelligence toward wise action, innovative leadership and
capacity development
Components of cultivating a positive culture - Answers promoting trust, establishing a growth-
oriented professional culture, demonstrating a commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion,
cultivating emotional intelligence
Open Systems - Answers import and export energy, influences outside of the organization that
will affect it and they learn to deal with those influences creatively
Closed Systems - Answers cannot generate a sufficient amount of energy internally
Social Systems - Answers energy is transformed and something new is produced
Internal Feedback Loops - Answers informs individuals how their behavior is viewed
External Feedback Loops - Answers indirectly evaluates individuals
The Great Man - Answers leaders are born not made
Trait Theory - Answers characteristics leaders possess but we can't have them all to be labeled
as a "good leader"
Skills Theory - Answers need attributes like technical, people, and conceptual skills
Style Theory - Answers autocratic, democratic, laissez-faire
Situational Leadership Theory - Answers Not one size fits all
Contingency Theory - Answers leader default style is fixed so we must pick the leader for the
situation
, Transactional Theory - Answers rewards and punishments
Transformational Theory - Answers theory of encouraging and inspiring
Leader- Member Exchange - Answers fair exchange but creates an in group and an out group
Servant Theory - Answers meet followers needs and creates trust which will increase
performance
Autocratic - Answers direct authoritarian behavior, leaders takes full responsibility for task
completion
Democratic - Answers shared decision making, followers are equals
Laissez-faire - Answers faculty has complete freedom, little or no direction
Collaborative Leadership - Answers influential behavior of an individual who persuades
followers to go over and above routine policies, procedures, and directives, replacing
compliance and conformity with commitment. Focused on working together
Expectancy Theory - Answers The theory that motivation will be high when workers believe that
high levels of effort lead to high performance and high performance leads to the attainment of
desired outcomes.
Path-Goal Theory - Answers a leadership theory that states that leaders can increase
subordinate satisfaction and performance by clarifying and clearing the paths to goals and by
increasing the number and kinds of rewards available for goal attainment
Participatory Leadership - Answers the leader and group members work together to make plans
and decisions about what they will do
Achievement Oriented Leadership - Answers a leadership style in which the leader sets
challenging goals, has high expectations of employees, and displays confidence that employees
will assume responsibility and put forth extraordinary effort
Directive Leadership - Answers a leadership style in which the leader lets employees know
precisely what is expected of them, gives them specific guidelines for performing tasks,
schedules work, sets standards of performance, and makes sure that people follow standard
rules and regulations
Supportive Leadership - Answers promotes a friendly work climate by focusing on subordinate
needs and well-being
Servant Leadership - Answers focuses on providing increased service to others—meeting the
goals of both followers and the organization—rather than to oneself.
Transformational Leadership - Answers leadership that, enabled by a leader's vision and