Leadership Development & Coaching Flashcards
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Which of the following is the BEST example of a 'powerful question' in a leadership coaching session?
Answer: What would you do if you knew you could not fail?
Powerful questions are open-ended, thought-provoking, and shift the client's perspective — 'what if you couldn't fail' opens imagination and removes fear-based limits.
A mentor is working with a leader who resists feedback. The most effective first step is to:
Answer: Explore the leader's relationship with feedback and past experiences receiving it
Understanding the root of feedback resistance — often tied to identity threat or past negative experiences — is prerequisite to shifting the pattern.
In the context of adult learning theory (andragogy), leaders develop most effectively when they:
Answer: See immediate relevance of learning to real-world challenges they face
Andragogy (Knowles) holds that adults are most motivated to learn when content solves real, current problems they are experiencing.
A CLM mentor helps a new manager who feels like an impostor despite strong performance. The appropriate coaching focus is on:
Answer: Building self-efficacy and challenging distorted self-assessment
Impostor syndrome involves inaccurate negative self-assessment; coaching should surface evidence of competence and reframe the leader's self-narrative.
When designing a leadership development program for senior executives, which element is most critical for transfer of learning back to the job?
Answer: On-the-job application projects linked to real business challenges
Transfer of learning is maximized when development activities are directly tied to real business problems the leader must actually solve.
A team leader asks their mentor how to handle a highly competent but openly cynical team member. The mentor's BEST response is to:
Answer: Ask the leader what they know about the root cause of the cynicism
Exploring the root cause of cynicism — often unmet needs, past disappointments, or lack of psychological safety — reveals the appropriate leadership response.
According to David Kolb's Experiential Learning Cycle, leadership development is most complete when a leader:
Answer: Has an experience, reflects on it, draws conclusions, and experiments with new behavior
Kolb's cycle — Concrete Experience → Reflective Observation → Abstract Conceptualization → Active Experimentation — requires all four stages for full learning.