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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

Leader I Admire

This goes too fast but if you hit the pause button to read the slide and then when you are done reading that slide hit play again and it will continue on.

Problem Solving

Probem Solving Steps:
D= Define the Problem E= Examine Alternatives C= Consider how choices relate to goals I= Identify acceptable choices D= Decide on one choice E= Evaluate Results

D= Our involement in our school is declining due to negitive attitudes and negitive enviroment.
E= Make it more enjoyable for students to be here. More postivite activities to help ware off on negitive attitudes. Smiling students, happy staff, students, and community.
C= Bridge the gap between school and community. Host more bonding activities. Have students become more involved with activities.
I= Billboards/Signs, Facebook, Team building Activities, PAWS bags, Lock-In, Talent Show, Movie Night.
D= Talent Show
E= To be completed May 25, 2010

What is Leadership

A leader is;

• A strong individual who cannot be pushed over. They know the difference between right and wrong. They are the first ones to volunteer and step out of their comfort zone. They are organized, self motivated, group orientend, and open to others opinions. Willing to help anyone out that needs it. They are independent and do what is best for a group as a whole. They can speak infront of a big group of people and be confident in what they are saying.

Service

Service in leadership is very important because it builds respect and bridge gaps. For example if you give some other people are willing to give up also. School leadership service is very important because it bridges the gap and also it builds respect between different generations. Also, when it comes to fundraising if the leader has been doing service in their own time when they go around asking for money people are much more reasonable than if all you do is ask all the time. Activities that promote service are;

~Raking Leaves or shoveling walks for elderly people

-Doing things for the elderly that are not capable builds respect for different ages of people.

~Christmas Tree Hunt

-During Christmas time go and cut trees for people that are not able or have resources to do that.

~Raise money for a cause

-Helping out causes like Make a Wish, Hatti, Feed the Children, ect. shows that you are not self centered and like to help out people in need.

~Town Clean Up

-Doing things out of the lovingness of a heart and helping the town with the attractiveness and pride that people live in.

~Eat lunch with Senior Citizens

-Also bridging gaps between generations and sit and listen to people that may not have someone to talk to and even learn a few things from them.

Character

My favorite leader character traits are,

~Enthusiasm

-Being fun and outgoing gets everyone motivated and everyone wants to participate making it easier to lead a group of people.

~Trust and Respect

-Being trusted and also being respected is huge because if a leader is trying to lead a group of people that do not respect or trust them makes a weak system of leadership and cooperation

~Motivation

-Motiving people I believe is one of the most important traits because if people are not willing to partake in activities and do not have an open attitude motivation is one of the falling resorts. Motivating people and getting them excited about what is going on is only going to make things better but also more enjoyable.

~Communication

-Communication is key in leadership. When leading people if they don't know what is going on the leadership and the group will be very dysfunctional and confusing.

~Problem Solving

-Problem solving can be hard but also can be easy. If taking the proper steps in identifying the problem solving can be much easier. In leadership there are always going to be problems they cannot be avoided. People may have the different opinion, or the approval for events, money, resources, ect.

Who Am I

My name is Brodie Bennett and I attend Meeteetse High School. I have lived in Meeteetse my entire life with my family and I have been enrolled in Meeteetse School since Kindergarden. My family is the most important aspect of my life and then followed by my friends. I really enjoy the outdoors and sports. I love basketball, volleyball, team roping, hunting, camping, boating, spending time with friends and family, and snow machining. I also like to do track and fishing. I am involved with Student Council, FCCLA, FFA, M-club, and NHS within the school. I am the current President of Student Council and have held a officer position every year I have been involved and I am also an officer in FCCLA, FFA, and M-club. I really enjoy being in leadership positions because I like to be involved and interact with everyone in the school and bringing laughs and creating memories to the minds of students. I hope to continue in leadership positions within the community I live in someday. I hope to be involved with a sorority, or a town council, or maybe even a school board.

Leadership "Insperational"" Quotes

Quotes that help me get motivated, inspire, and strive for excellence.
~Life is a coin you can spend it anyway you want but you can only spend it once! -Sheana Guthrie
~ Unless we take action toward our goals and dreams with our outstanding attitudes, it is just a hopeful idea, a wishful thought. -Ed Gerety
~ It's hard to fail if you never tried to succeed. -Unknown
~Be concerend with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merly what others think you are. -John Wooden
~ Dont give up on your dreams, or your dreams will give up on you.- John Wooden
~ Look To This Day,
Look to this day for it is life, the very life of life, in its brief courses lies all, the realities and verticies of exsistent, the bliss of growth, the slendor of action, the glory of power, for yesterday is but a dream, and tomorrow s only a vision, but today well lived, makes every tomorrow a vision of hope, look well, therefore, to this day. -Sanskrit Proverb