Learning Objectives:

1. To examine prevalent leadership theories.
2. To define leadership.

The Basics:

Read and study this material if your experience with FFA and 4-H is limited.

• Visit state and national websites for the FFA and 4-H to get a sense of what kinds of leadership opportunities there are in each organization.

The Main Lesson:

Read these materials

• The NCSU Library has a new tool called netLibrary. This feature allows you to view electronic versions of books via the web. Click here to go to the NCSU Libraries netLibrary page. Follow the directions for setting up a netLibrary account. View the demo if you like that explains the features of netLibrary. This is a fairly straightforward process and you should not have any trouble navigating through the registration process. If you do have problems, please do not hesitate to contact your instructor. Your tax dollars and tuition paid for this learning resource, so enjoy! Once you have registered with netLibrary, go to the NCSU Libraries main page and search for the books below. (You may need to enter your unity id. and password at some point.) Search for the books below as an [electronic resource]. These are the versions of the books that are available electronically. Some versions of these books are in paper form and can be found on the shelves of the Library, but some are available electronically. You have to find the copy of the book that is in electronic format. This is not hard to do. Also, you check out e-books just like regular books, but only for shorter periods of time. The good news is that they are easy to renew. This is a cool resource - try it out! Here are your reading assignments:
• Browse the netLibrary for titles pertaining to leadership. It certainly beats spending your hard-earned cash at the bookstore. Take a look at these excellent leadership books in netLibrary. They will be helpful to you in writing your leadership lesson plan. Do not read them all, browse them and read what interests you:
  • The Leadership Challenge by Kouzes and Posner.
  • Leader to Leader from the Drucker Foundation
  • Harvard Business Review On Leadership.
  • Empowerment Takes More Than A Minute by Ken Blanchard.
• Based upon your preliminary reading above, you should have begun to discover a few theories about leadership. Please click on the links below for information on:
  • Transformational leadership (Read the Bruce Avolio article)
  • Situational leadership.
• This week's PowerPoint is on Leadership.

Advanced Reading:

• Additional resources for reading
  
  • How important is character to leaders? See what Stephen Covey has to say on the subject by clicking here.
    

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