Character Video

Recources

Here are some helpful, motivational, inspirational, and self building resources that can help you become a better LEADER!

Movies-

• Ultimate Gift
• Facing the Giants
• Remember the Titans
• Braveheart
• Hoosiers
• Blind Side

Web Sites-

• www.fcclainc.org
• http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/leader/leadcon.html
• www.coachwooden.com

Books:

• Inch and Miles- John Wooden
• Wooden: Lifetime Observations and Reflections- John Wooden
• Wisdom of Wooden- John Wooden
• My Personal Best: Life Lessons from an All-American Journey
• Wooden: Values,Victory, Piece of Mind- John Wooden

Goal Setting

Goal setting is important in leadership especially when it is to improve yourself as a leader. Leaning new styles of learning and leading, how to manage and solve conflicts, and building relationships. When setting goals it is important to know how to effectively set and reach a goal. Steps for setting and achieving a goal is;

1. What goal do I want to achieve- Make it achievable and realistic
2. How can I make my goal as specific as possible- Who, What, Where, When
3. What recourses and skills do I currently have that will help me in reaching my goal.-Identify strengths in this area
4. What mini goal do I need to set in order to achieve my major goal- Progression goals
5. By what date do I want to achieve each mini goal.- Specific
6. By what date do I want to have my major goal achieved- Specific
7. Take action with an outstanding attitude and evaluate your progress.- Keep reminding yourself of your goal and tell other people what your goal is so they can also remind you.

(Ed Gerety)

Manage Conflict

The role that leaders can play in helping others resolve conflicts is having a postitive attitude and doing things for the greater good. Leaders will make a desicion that is the right desicion and not pick sides. As a leader people look up to you and admire you for being a good person and the ability to motivate people in making good desicions. In a conflict, taking the proper steps will help resolve a problem.

1. Before speaking make sure that you have gained all composure.
2. Look at it from the other persons point of view.
3. Ask for both sides of the story because everyone is intitled to their own opinion
4. Solve the problem together
5. Ask for help if nothing is getting resolved

Learning Styles and Modalities

As a leader, knowing the different kinds of leaning styles and modalities can make leading easier and can get more things accomplished. For example, if a person in the group is a visual learner and you are the president of a organization. You have a task for this person to do and you tell them everything that needs to be done. A week later you re-group and find that the person you had do the task had only got one thing done. He then goes on to tell you that he forgot and does not understand what he is suppose to do. Instead, if you knew what kind of learner he was you could have gave it to him on a piece of paper and he would have more likley gotten it done.

Even though a leader has their own learning style, if you dont know how to work with the others that maybe dont have the same style as you, how are you leading them? The learning modalities are:

• Visual: Need things said to them, Like the Big Picture, talk and move fast, neat and orderly, like color, need personal space, sit in the front row, draw pictures, need written directions.


• Audiotory: Talkative, Talk in rythm, cassette head, radar eyes, middle of room, say directions, needs specific examples


• Kinesthetic: Move, Talk more, "sloppy", athletic, sit in back, directions in hand, learn by doing, uses props, work side by side

Brain Preferences:

• Left Brain Stucture: Using text, making models, practical reading, charts, how-to-books, making timelines, practical problems, demonstrating, classifying
• Left Brain Analytical: Using text, lecture, note taking, library work, outlining, quiz bowl, doing research, debating, questioning experts, considering cause and effect.
• Right Brain Affective: Journal writing, creative writing, team games, arts, role-play, music, drama, drwaing, interviewing, working with a partner, humor.
• Right Brain Original: Brainstorming, inventing, games, experimenting, having options, creating the unusual, open-ending activities, designing, problem solving, learning games, making games, hands-on learning

A great site to find out what your leaning styles are is http://www.ldpride.net/learning-style-test.html.

Team Building

I feel that Team Building is the most important component of leadership. Doing team building activities improves the attitude, brings fun, and stregthens the group in trust. Being able to trust the people you are working with only makes the group that much more effective. Attitude is huge if there are negative attidudes the group with have a negative outcome. With postive attitudes the group will be enjoyable to work with and have a more postive outcome. Examples of team building are;

• Trust activities: Falling person, Ropes Course, Blind Flold Race
• Communication activites: Telephone, Tank, Giants Wizards Elves.
• Problem Solving: Marchmello River, Moral Delemas
• Team Work: "A" Frame Walk, Spider Web, Obstacle Course, Scavengar Hunt
• Reconition: Talent Show, Awards Night, Rewards of good deeds

Realtionships

Relationships are very important in leadership. Building strong realtionships with peers is so important. Acording to http://www.fcclainc.org/ "A dynamic person stranded alone on a island can't be a leader-there's no one to lead! People are important to leaders because people make it possible to shape ideas, find solutions, and work toward goals. Dynamic leaders build interpersonal skills so they can get along with, motivate, and encourage a variety of people." Also when developing realationships you are also making yourself stronger because you build interpersonal skills for yourself and then you are more capable of leading others.

Tips for devoloping relationships,

• Be friendly
• Encouraging
• Ask for opinions
• Construtive Critizim
• Treat everyone the same
• Discus problems as a whole
• Make the right descions or favorable
• Do what is best for a group
• Be positive