Unit 12. The main characteristics of the true leader

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expose distributing

barriers concentrate

sharing raise a question

bargaining cooperation

enforcement difficulties

emphasis transfer from

focus on stress

interaction maintenance

transition arrangement

Exercise 3. Answer the following questions:

1. What do conflicts arise from?

2. What conflict factors do you know?

3. Give description of communication, structural and personal factors.

4. What are the ways to handle with conflicts and which of it (them) is best of all to your mind?

5. What kind of problem do you know and its resolving?

6. Can problems fall into conflict? At what situations?

7. Have conflicts got any advantages to your mind?

8. Propose your own strategy resolving conflicts and problems.

Active Vocabulary

hand out rigidity perception sit back amuse coherence keep up

давать не задумуючись твердість сприйняття, осмислення розслабитись, байдикувати розважатись, гарно проводити час послідовність, логічність дотримуватись належним чином

1. In large organizations, leaders should spend no more than four hours a day in their offices. The rest of the time, they should be out with their people, talking to lower-level employees and getting their feedback on problem areas. They should be making short speeches and handing out awards.

2. The best leaders are those whose minds are never closed and who are eager to deal with new issues. Leaders should not change their minds too frequently after a major decision has been made, but if they never reconsider, they are beginning to show a degree of rigidity and inflexibility that creates problems for the organization.

3. Executives must take a disciplined approach to their schedules, their post, their telephone calls, their travel schedules and their meetings. Staying busy and working long hours are not necessarily a measurement of leadership effectiveness.

4. Leaders may run efficient organizations, but they do not really serve the long-term interests of the institution unless they plan, set goals and provide strategic perception.

5. The leader must be willing to pass on skills, to share insights and experiences, and to work very closely with people to help them mature and be creative.

6. Leaders should let people know that life is not so important that you can't sit back occasionally and be amused by what is happening. Laughter can be a great reliever of tension.

7. Reliability is something that leaders must have in order to provide stability and strength to organizations. Leaders must be willing to be flexible but consistency and coherence are important elements of large organizations.

8. Leaders must not only understand the major elements of their businesses but must also keep up with any changes.

9. Leaders should be able to look at themselves objectively and analyze where they have made mistakes and where they have disappointed people.

Exercise 1. Give for the English:

твердість, сприйняття, відпочивати, послідовність, управляти, давати не задумуючись, хотіти, розважатись, дотримуватись, полегшувати.

Exercise 2. Match words from list A with words from list B that have similar meaning:

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