small animal unit a: leadership development. leadership qualities objective 1.01: discuss leadership...
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SMALL ANIMAL
Unit A: Leadership
Development
Leadership Qualities
Objective 1.01:Discuss leadership qualities desired by the small animal industry
Leadership Qualities
• Integrity– Honesty
• Courage– Willing to go forward under difficult
circumstances
• Management– Using people, resources, process to
reach a goal
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
Leadership Qualities
• Plan– Able to think through, determine
procedures
• Knowledge– Awareness, understanding
• Tact– Enjoying and doing the right thing
without offending
Leadership Defined
Leadership is influence- the ability to obtain followers.
- John C. Maxwell
B. Program Components
Objective 1.01:
Components of the Program
• 1-Supervised Agricultural Experience– explore interest– gain work experience
What will we be doing with the SAE?GLAD YOU ASKED! LETS FIND OUT!
Supervised Agricultural Experience
• You will be required to complete an SAE project this semester for my class.
• It will count as 50% of your grade• Weekly we will write down events
you have done.• You will complete the project for a
grade
What do I do now?
• What can I do for my SAE?– Run my own Business
(Entrepreneurship)• Mowing Yards or landscaping• Pet sitting/ cleaning• Cutting Trees, etc• Re building motors, servicing vehicles
What else?• Work for money or volunteer
(placement)– Ingles, Bi-lo ( needs to be in produce,
dairy, deli, bakery or meat department)– Vet or animal shelter– Data entry– Newspaper– US forest service– Any job or volunteer that can be ag
related
Other options
• You can do a research project– Amount of fertilizer needed to grow
20 tomatoes per month off of 1 plant
– * you can do a market analysis
So you have done this already?
• Even if you completed a project last semester, you must do one this semester.
• It can be the same topic, you just add more hours or you can pick a new topic!
Forms!
• I will pass out information relating to your SAE– Timeline– Parent Letter- needs to be signed– Journal paper– These papers will stay in your folder!
Wednesday Weekly Update!
• Every Wednesday will be the day designated to work on SAE journals in class!
B- Components of instructional Program
2- Classroom Instruction–Studying and learning subject matter in the classroom.
3-Laboratory Instruction–Learn by demonstration
4- FFA Student Organization
• Club or Student Organization• Develops Citizenship & Leadership• Communication
– Developed through CDE• public speaking• creed (freshmen only)• agriculture sales• poultry, dairy and livestock oral reasons• parliamentary procedures
5- Cooperative Extension Service
• Educational agency of USDA and part of the university system– NC State and NC A& T in North Carolina
• Sponsors 4-H clubs– used to enhance personal development and provide
skill development– Much like a Community AG Group/ FFA
FFA Student Organization
This class develops Leadership, so what is Leadership?
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
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
Assignment1- Use a clean sheet of paper
– Use markers and make it large enough to fit the paper
– Develop your own Leadership quote!
2- On the opposite side write as many qualities of good leadership as possible
Myths About Leaders and Leadership
TRUE OR FALSEon your paper write True or False for the correct
answer.
• Myth 1: There is little knowledge about leadership.
• Myth 2: All leaders are born with unique qualities.
• Myth 3: Leaders make all the group=s decisions.
• Myth 4: All leaders are popular, charismatic individuals.
• Myth 5: To lead requires election or appointment.
• Myth 6: It is a rare skill.• Myth 7: Leaders control, direct and
produce.• Myth 8: Leadership exists only at the top