Leadership, Personal Growth and Career Success

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Leadership, Personal Growth and Career Success

• August 2010

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Leadership Journal

• How have you been a leader in your home,
  community or elementary school?
• How do you plan to be a leader in your high
  school?

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Leadership

• Premier Leadership Everyone can be a leader in
  one role or another.
• Your actions can provide positive influence to
  others in your family, school and community.
• Your involvement in FFA will present many
  opportunities for you to lead!
• Leadership is influence the ability to obtain
  followers John C. Maxwell

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10 Characteristics of Leadership

• 1. Authenticity leadership begins and ends with
  authenticity.
• 2. Desire to Serve Others - Authentic leaders
  genuinely desire to serve others through their
  leadership.
• 3. Empowering People -They are more interested in
  empowering the people they lead to make a
  difference than they are in power, money, or
  prestige for themselves.
• 4. Guided by Heart, passion and compassion - They
  are as guided by qualities of the heart, by
  passion, and compassion, as they are by qualities
  of the mind.
• 5. Recognize their shortcomings - Leaders use
  their natural abilities, but they also recognize
  their shortcomings and work hard to overcome them.

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Characteristics

• 6. Lead with Purpose - They lead with purpose,
  meaning and values.
• 7. Build Enduring Relationships - They build
  enduring relationships with people.
• 8. Clear Where They Stand - Others follow them
  because they know where they stand.
• 9. Refuse to Compromise - When principles are
  tested, they refuse to compromise.
• 10. Develop Themselves - leaders are dedicated to
  developing themselves because they know that
  becoming a leader takes a lifetime of personal
  growth.

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Personal Growth

• If you want to be your best, you must take a
  close look at yourself and identify the things
  that youd like to continue to build on and grow.
• Personal growth is a life-long endeavor of
  continuously striving to be your personal best.
• Physical Growth
• Social Growth
• Professional Growth
• Mental Growth
• Emotional Growth
• Spiritual Growth

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Career Success

• What is your dream job?
• What do you love to do?
• What are you passionate about?

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Career Success

• 1. BeliefIn order for you to achieve anything in
  your career, in fact your life - you have to
  first believe. You need to believe in yourself
  that you can achieve it.
• 2. ActionNothing moves until you do something.
  Believing alone is not going to achieve anything
  for you. It must be followed up with concrete
  action.
• 3. DisciplineAction in itself is not enough to
  increase the chances of success. One of the main
  reasons why people fail is that there is no
  discipline in their action

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Homework!

• You are to write a personal mission statement
  that will include the following
• Introduction (1 paragraph)
• Goals for leadership (1 paragraph)
• Goals for personal growth (1 paragraph)
• Goals for career success (1 paragraph)
• Paragraph 3 to 4 sentences
• DUE FRIDAY AUGUST 13, 2010