Horticulture 2

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Horticulture 2

• Unit A Leadership

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Program Components

• Objective
• Develop leadership qualities through
  participation in the small animal instructional
  program

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Components of the Program

• Supervised Agricultural Experience
• explore interest
• gain work experience
• Classroom Instruction
• Laboratory Instruction
• FFA Student Organization

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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

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FFA Student Organization

• This class develops Leadership, so what is
  Leadership?

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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

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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 2918
• Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you
  want to test a man's character, give him power.
• - Abraham Lincoln

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Assignment

• Construct a quote that gives advice on the
  concept of leadership.
• Use a clean sheet of paper
• Use markers and make it large enough to fit the
  paper
• On the opposite side write as many qualities of
  good leadership as possible

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Leadership Qualities

• Objective
• Identify leadership qualities desired by the
  small animal industry

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Leadership Qualities

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

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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

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Leadership Qualities

• Plan
• Able top think through, determine procedures
• Knowledge
• Awareness, understanding
• Tact
• Enjoying and doing the right thing without
  offending

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Leadership Defined

• Leadership is influence- the ability to obtain
  followers.
• - John C. Maxwell

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Leadership Tree

• Situation
• You and your friends are stranded on an island
  far away from civilization. On this island there
  are six trees with many different type of fruit.
  Each different type of fruit hold one leadership
  characteristic for becoming successful in life.

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Leadership Tree

• You must convince your supreme leader (me) which
  single fruit holds the most important leadership
  trait for becoming a successful person in life.
• You have five mins for your group to make an
  argument to you leaders on which is most
  important. If you fail, you will be stranded
  forever...

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Public Speaking

• Objective
• Describe the major types of speeches and the
  variables to be considered when presenting
  speeches.

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Parts of a Good Speech
Conclusion
Introduction
Body
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Types of Speeches

• To inform
• To persuade
• To integrate
• introductions
• welcome speeches

Prepared vs Extemporaneous
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Things to consider...

• Purpose
• why are you giving the speech
• Analyze the audience
• Occasion
• Content
• Composition

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Delivery

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

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Delivery

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

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Delivery

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

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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.

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Delivery

• General effect
• interesting
• understandable
• convincing
• pleasing
• holds attention

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Conducting a Business Meeting

• Objective
• Analyze the role of Roberts Rules of Order in
  conducting a business meeting

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Conducting A Business Meeting

• Objective
• Analyze the role that Roberts Rules of Order
  plays in the orderly conduct of business

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What is Parliamentary Procedure?

• Parliamentary procedure is a systematic way of
  organizing meetings.
• Parliamentary procedure is governed by Roberts
  Rules of Order.

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Parliamentary Law

• Roberts 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

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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

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Methods of Voting

• Voice
• Rising
• Secret Ballot
• Roll Call

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Voting

• Single 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

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Voting

• Quorum
• number of members required to conduct business

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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 quite and orderly

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Table of Motions
Highest

• Privileged
• Incidental
• Subsidiary
• Unclassified

Lowest
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The Gavel

• The president uses the gavel to control aspects
  of the meeting.
• The number of taps determines the meaning.

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Presiding Officer

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

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Motions
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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

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Main Motion

• Requires second
• Debatable
• Amendable
• Majority vote required
• Can be reconsidered

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Amendments

• Used to change a main motion
• 3 ways to amend addition, substitution,
  striking out
• Wording I move to amend the motion

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Amendments

• Requires second
• Debatable
• Amendable
• Majority vote required
• Can be reconsidered

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Adjourn

• Used to end a meeting
• Wording I move to adjourn

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Adjourn

• Cannot be debated
• Cannot be amended
• Cannot be reconsidered
• Requires second
• Requires majority vote

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Appeal

• Changes a decision made by the chair
• Wording I appeal the decision of the chair

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Appeal

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

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Point of Order

• Used when one believes a parliamentary error has
  been made
• Wording I rise to a point of order

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Point of order

• Not debatable
• Amendable
• Does not require second
• Cannot be reconsidered
• No vote required

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Division of the House

• Calls for a counted vote
• Wording I call for a division of the house.

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Division of the House

• Not debatable
• Amendable
• Does not require second
• Cannot be reconsidered
• No vote required

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Lay on the table

• To postpone a motion to the next meeting
• Motion must be taken from the table at the next
  meeting to be discussed
• Wording I move to lay this motion on the table

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Lay on the table

• Requires second
• Not debatable
• Not amendable
• Cannot be reconsidered
• Majority vote

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Previous question

• Used to stop debate and vote
• Wording I move to previous question

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Previous question

• Second required
• Not debatable
• Not amendable
• Can be reconsidered before vote
• 2/3 vote required

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Refer to committee

• Used to gain more information on a motion before
  voting
• Wording I move to refer this motion to a
  committee to report at our next meeting.

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Refer to committee

• Second required
• Debatable
• Amendable
• Can be reconsidered
• Majority vote

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