Listening & Speaking Quiz: Drew Dudley “Everyday Leadership”
“Drew Dudley believes leadership is not a characteristic reserved for the
extraordinary. He works to help people discover the leader within themselves.”
In this talk, Drew Dudley discusses a problem and asks people to think about how
they can solve the problem. He uses an example from his personal life to show us
how we can think about the topic of “leadership” in a different way. The talk is
short, and Mr. Dudley speaks fast, so you will need to listen closely!
1. Drew asks the audience to raise their hands if they are:
a. afraid to be a leader
b. comfortable calling themselves a leader
c. think leaders are arrogant
2. Drew thinks it is a problem that people have made leadership:
a. something bigger than us or something that we can’t do
b. something everyone can do
c. something that no one cares about
3. Drew tells a story about a girl who:
a. he helped get into college
b. who remembers the first day she met him
c. who did not have parents
4. The girl in the story was:
a. afraid and nervous about starting school at the university
b. a great leader at the university
c. unhappy that she was not going to the university
5. The girl in the story remembers Drew:
a. Giving a speech on her first day of college
b. Helping her with registration for classes
c. Wearing the stupidest hat she had ever seen and it was awesome
6. After Drew gave the boy a lollipop to give to the girl, the boy was embarrassed.
Drew says, “Everybody lost it. Twenty feet in every direction, everyone started to
howl.” What do you think he means?
a. everyone was angry
b. everyone was laughing
c. everyone was making loud noises like a dog
7. The girl tells Drew that he has been
a. an incredibly important person in her life
b. very funny and silly
c. a good story
8. What happened to the boy and the girl in Drew’s story?
a. they never saw each other again
b. they were in the same classes together
c. they got married
9. Did Drew remember the “lollipop moment?”
a. Yes
b. No
10. What is a “lollipop moment”
a. When a stranger gives you candy
b. When people do small things that make a big difference in people’s lives
11. Drew says we need to “redefine leadership as being about lollipop moments,
how many of them we create, how many of them we acknowledge, how many
of them we pay forward, and how many of them we say thank you for.” Do
you have a “lollipop moment” story? Has someone in your life made a big
difference with a small act of leadership? Is there a person you would thank
who maybe does not know that they had a positive impact on you? Who and
why? (Just write one or two short sentences)
Discussion
What is the problem that Drew wants to solve? What are some of the causes of the
problem? What are some of the solutions?
What does redefine leadership mean?
What does “pay it forward” mean?