| Youth Leadership in Action: Community Focus - Content | ||
Session
One: Understanding Leadership |
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Goal:
To establish a foundation for understanding and exercising leadership |
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| Objectives:
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1. Gain knowledge about selected leadership theories and concepts | |
| 2. Identify characteristics and behaviors of proven and effective leaders | ||
| 3. Gain new insights into themselves as leaders | ||
| 4. Practice selected leadership skills | ||
| 5. Develop a personal leadership development plan to exercise leadership in daily life | ||
Session
Two: Taking Charge |
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Goal:
To recognize the sources and effects of stress in students' lives and
practice ways to manage stress |
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Objectives: |
1. Define stress | |
| 2. Recognize that stress can have positive outcomes | ||
| 3. Identify the sources and indicators of stress | ||
| 4. Illustrate ways to manage personal stress | ||
| 5. Develop personal stress management strategies | ||
Session
Three: Communicating Effectively |
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Goal:
To recognize effective communication as an important skill in leadership
development |
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Objectives: |
1. Define communication | |
| 2. Identify the communication process | ||
| 3. Examine four modes of communication | ||
| 4. Practice effective communication skills | ||
| 5. Develop strategies to improve personal communication techniques | ||
Session
Four: Appreciating Differences |
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Goal:
To develop an appreciation of differences among people |
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Objectives: |
1. Define differences | |
| 2. Develop awareness of characteristics that make one unique | ||
| 3. Recognize that in diversity there is strength | ||
| 4. Explore ways to retain individuality while appreciating the differing styles, talents, abilities, and values of others | ||
Session
Five: Building Teams |
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Goal:
To develop teambuilding knowledge and skills |
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Objectives: |
1. Define team | |
| 2. Clarify roles and rules within a team | ||
| 3. Identify elements of effective teams and team problem solving | ||
| 4. Identify the five conditions for effective teamwork | ||
| 5. Practice teambuilding skills | ||
Session
Six: Managing Conflict |
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Goal:
To develop skills in managing conflict |
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Objectives: |
1. Define conflict | |
| 2. Examine individual conflict styles | ||
| 3. Recognize change as a source of conflict | ||
| 4. Identify ways to manage conflict | ||
| 5. Discuss the positive aspects of conflict | ||
| 6. Develop personal strategies for managing conflict | ||
Session
Seven: Setting Goals and Making Decisions |
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Goal:
To develop and practice goal-setting and decision-making skills within
the community context |
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Objectives: |
1. Define community | |
| 2. Identify the steps in the decision-making process | ||
| 3. Practice group decision-making | ||
| 4. Recognize the relationship between successful decision-making practices and community action | ||
Session
Eight: Exercising Community Leadership |
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Goal:
To develop an awareness of the local community and the steps to follow in exercising leadership in the community |
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Objectives: |
1. Discuss the value of and ways to conduct a community assessment | |
| 2. Identify actions which could be taken to address the problems suggested in the community assessment | ||
| 3. Review the steps to follow in exercising community leadership | ||
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2003 Fanning Institute for Leadership |
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Fanning Institute for Leadership - 1240 S. Lumpkin St. - Athens, GA
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