Leadership for Career Development

1. Leadership for Career Development Unit A: Leadership

2. Program Components Objective: Develop leadership qualities through participation in the small animal instructional program

3. Components of the Program • Supervised Agricultural Experience • explore interest • gain work experience • Classroom Instruction or Laboratory Instruction • FFA Student Organization

4. Ceremonies and Traditions • FFA Mission • To make a positive difference in the lives of students by developing their potential for premier leadership, personal growth and career success • How do we accomplish the mission??

5. What do we do in FFA? • Develops Citizenship & Leadership • Communication • Developed through CDE • public speaking • creed (freshmen only) • agriculture sales • poultry, dairy and livestock oral reasons • parliamentary procedures • Fellowship • Career Development – Career Development Events

6. Opportunities… • Officers and committees—know duties and how those experiences can be used in the biotech / agricultural research industry. Examples— • President—preside over industry board meetings; • Secretary—keep minutes of meetings for research teams; • Treasurer—keep financial records for a research project, or develop a budget for a research proposal; • Reporter—serve on NC Biotech Center Public Relations Committee, etc.

7. Opportunities… • Program of activities—helps in setting goals and developing plans and steps to reach those goals. • Proficiency awards—entrepreneurship or individual placement awards growing out of a student’s SAE program. • Banquets, conventions, conferences, social events, community service, etc.

8. FFA Student Organization This class develops Leadership, so what is Leadership?

9. What is Leadership? • Lead and inspire people. Don't try to manage and manipulate people. Inventories can be managed but people must be lead. - Ross Perot • Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together. - Jesse Jackson

10. What is Leadership? • The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been. - Henry Kissinger • Where there is no vision, the people perish. - Proverbs 29:18 • Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. - Abraham Lincoln

11. Leadership Qualities Objective: Identify leadership qualities desired by the small animal industry

12. Leadership Qualities • Integrity • Honesty • Courage • Willing to go forward under difficult circumstances • Management • Using people, resources, process to reach a goal

13. Leadership Qualities • Unselfishness • Placing the desires and welfare of others above yourself • Loyalty • Reliable support for an individual, group or cause • Enthusiasm • Energy to do a job and the inspiration to encourage others

14. Leadership Qualities • Plan • Able to think through, determine procedures • Knowledge • Awareness, understanding • Tact • Enjoying and doing the right thing without offending

15. How do we lead? • Task • You are to use one of the terms to describe how you have been an example of that trait or how you have exhibited that trait in a situation • Then choose two people in your class to “assign” a trait to, explain why they exhibit that trait

16. Public Speaking Objective: Describe the major types of speeches and the variables to be considered when presenting speeches.

17. Parts of a Good Speech Conclusion Introduction Body

18. Types of Speeches • To inform • To persuade • To integrate • introductions • welcome speeches • Sometimes like a “pep talk” Prepared vs Extemporaneous

19. Things to consider... • Purpose • why are you giving the speech • Analyze the audience • Occasion • Content • Composition

20. Delivery • Voice • pitch • quality • articulation • pronunciation • over pronounce each word • force • may the force be with you

21. Delivery • Stage presence • appearance • poise • attitude • always positive • confidence • but not over confident • personality • posture

22. Delivery • Power of expression • fluency • sincerity • emphasis • directness • conveyance of thought and meaning

23. Delivery • Response to questions • accurately • ability to think quickly • If you can not answer a question: • “That is an interesting question, however, I am not sure of the answer at this time.”

24. Delivery • General effect • interesting • understandable • convincing • pleasing • holds attention

25. Delivery • Practice! Practicing in a mirror helps • Record yourself • Always make eye contact • Facial expressions make you seem interested and sincere– but too much is distracting

26. Assignment • Using the internet find a speech that you find inspirational. After reading or listening to the speech write a brief paper describing the speech and the following… • Who wrote/spoke the speech? • What was the occasion of the speech? • Why is it inspirational? • You may use any resource you like, but http://www.americanrhetoric.com/ is a good start.

27. Conducting a Business Meeting Objective: Analyze the role of Robert’s Rules of Order in conducting a business meeting

28. Conducting A Business Meeting • Objective • Analyze the role that Robert’s Rules of Order plays in the orderly conduct of business

29. What is Parliamentary Procedure? Parliamentary procedure is a systematic way of organizing meetings. Parliamentary procedure is governed by Robert’s Rules of Order.

30. Parliamentary Law • Robert’s Rule of Order • Rules for conducting a meeting • Assures that all sides are treated fairly and that everyone has the opportunity to discuss and vote

31. Parliamentary Law • Main Objective: • Focus on one item at a time • Extend courtesy to everyone • Observe the rule of the majority • Ensure the rights of the minority

32. Methods of Voting • Voice • Rising • Secret Ballot • Roll Call

33. Voting • Simple majority • one vote more than 50% of the votes cast • Two-thirds majority • 2/3 of the members must be for the motion • usually used when the rights of the members are limited

34. Voting • Quorum • number of members required to conduct business

35. Gavel • Symbol of authority • Meaning of the taps • 1 tap means to be seated • 2 taps means the meeting is called to order • 3 taps means that members should stand • Series of taps • “be quiet and orderly”

36. Table of Motions Highest • Privileged • Incidental • Subsidiary • Unclassified Lowest

37. Presiding Officer • Chapter FFA President • Must be fair and impartial • Must relinquish the chair when the president desires to discuss business

38. Motions

39. Main Motion • Used to get group approval for a new project or some other course of action • Wording: “I move” NOT “I make a motion”

40. Main Motion • Requires second • Debatable • Amendable • Majority vote required • Can be reconsidered

41. Amendments • Used to change a main motion • 3 ways to amend: addition, substitution, striking out • Wording: “I move to amend the motion by…”

42. Amendments • Requires second • Debatable • Amendable • Majority vote required • Can be reconsidered

43. Adjourn • Used to end a meeting • Wording: “I move to adjourn”

44. Adjourn • Cannot be debated • Cannot be amended • Cannot be reconsidered • Requires second • Requires majority vote

45. Appeal • Changes a decision made by the chair • Wording: “I direct an appeal from the decision of the chair”

46. Appeal • Requires a second • Debatable • Can be reconsidered • Not amendable • Majority vote required

47. Point of Order • Used when one believes a parliamentary error has been made • Wording: “I rise to a point of order”

48. Point of order • Not debatable • Amendable • Does not require second • Cannot be reconsidered • No vote required

49. Division of the House • Calls for a counted vote • Wording: “I call for a division of the house.”

50. Division of the House • Not debatable • Amendable • Does not require second • Cannot be reconsidered • No vote required