Participation in sensitivity training sessions is considered excellent experience for those developing their leadership skills because it increases one's sensitivity:
A. Regarding another organization's needs
B. And improves one's ability to be visionary
C. Regarding the organization's policies and procedures
D. To others' needs and helps one appreciate the significance of shared decision making
Question 2Sometimes people are promoted to the next level of their job description solely as a result of their seniority and not their competency level. This idea of thinking about leadership would correlate with the idea that:
A. Every experienced nurse can do the same performance as a physician.
B. Nurses need to be a follower for the first 10 years of their career before assuming a leader role.
C. Every person in a position of authority is a leader.
D. Nurses are trained to follow a leader.
Question 3Leaders go through stages in their leadership development and can gain the MOST leadership skills by:
A. Talking to leaders who are participating in change in their organization
B. Serving as a leader as much as possible and in a variety of situations
C. Reading leadership and management texts
D. Participating in critical-thinking exercises offered at Nurse Manager Workshops
Question 4Which of the following plans would you expect to be most effective in helping a nurse develop as a leader?
A. Seeking a mentor, expanding professional networks, and becoming more involved in professional association(s)
B. Strengthening relationships with current circle of nurse colleagues, attending an in-service program, and observing other nurses interacting with a legislator on tel-evision
C. Writing personal career goals, demon-strating that one can make it on your own without help or guidance from oth-ers, and beginning a graduate program
D. Developing a highly specialized know-ledge base so that others rely on you for information, reading professional journals regularly, and attending functions in one's local community
Question 5The concept of networking is based most prominently on which of the following assumptions?
A. Sharing of information and experiences is most effective when done informally.
B. Whom one knows is important and can be helpful.
C. People enjoy being called on to help oth-ers.
D. The more people one claims to know en-sures one of career success.
Question 6When considering entering a mentoring relationship, both the mentor and the protg should consider all of the following caveats EXCEPT:
A. A mentoring relationship is different from a personal, emotional relationship.
B. The mentor and protg need not have the same educational, ethnic, or racial back-ground.
C. The mentor-protg relationship goes through stages from dependence to sepa-rateness.
D. The mentor should be expected to fulfill every need and meet every demand of the protg.
Question 7Which of the following statements is a MYTH about mentors and mentoring?
A. The mentor must be more experienced than the neophyte.
B. Mentoring is always beneficial to both parties.
C. Either the mentor or the neophyte can in-itiate the relationship.
D. A person may have several mentors throughout his or her career.
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