Teen Living Notes

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Teen Living Notes

• Obj. 4.01 Demonstrate characteristics of
  effective leadership.

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Leadership Qualities

• Character refers to inner traits, such as
  conscience, moral strength, and social attitudes.
• Opportunities using good character traits to
  display caring, fairness, respect,
  trustworthiness, responsibility, and citizenship.
• Examples fairness taking turns sharing
• honesty telling the whole truth and nothing
  but the truth (at all times)
• citizenship loyalty in regard to the quality
  of a persons response to membership in a
  community

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Leadership Qualities

• Responsibilities being accountable for your
  actions and obligations at home, school and work.
• Styles of leadership
• Autocratic Boss, someone in full control
• Democratic A team effect everyone shares in the
  decision-making process
• Laissez-faire Nondirective, in name only, allow
  true freedom among group, members are experienced
  and self-directed. Members will carry out duties
  without having to be watched and told to finish
  task.

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Leadership Qualities

• A good manager will have all necessary supplies
  gathered before meeting ever takes place.
• Sometimes leaders will act as a motivator being
  persuasive and providing encouragement tactics
  (strategies).
• Task-oriented leaders will continue to work on a
  job until completion is done.

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Leadership Qualities

• Effective leadership will accept differences
  among individuals.
• A trait of an effective leader would be to
  delegate (assign different jobs/duties)
  responsibilities and help out when needed.

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Teen Living Notes

• Obj. 4.02 Practice positive group interaction

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Business Procedures

• Steps in a planning process
• Form a plan members gather together to collect
  information on a project or event and decide on
  the who, what, when, and where decisions.
• Set a goal to vote on an issue for a group to
  carry out.
• Act members work together until they finish the
  project.
• Follow up evaluating the planning process to
  discuss ideas for making next time better.

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Business Procedures

• How to conduct a meeting
• When conducing a business meeting, a member makes
  a motion to move an idea into action and before
  further conversation can be taken, this motion
  must be seconded.
• During the debate, of a motion, a person must get
  proper recognition before standing up to speak,
  if not that individual will be out of order.

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Business Procedures

• Continue conducing a meeting
• During a meeting, when the agenda (items to be
  discussed) addresses new business members then
  can introduce ideas to the group.
• When members vote Aye or no this type is
  known as voice voting.
• When a motion is carried and a member ask for a
  division of the house this means for a revote
  to be given.

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Business Procedures

• Continue conducing a meeting
• Simple majority is when more than half of the
  members are in agreement on a issue. Example 50
  people vote and 26 are in favor for the motion.
• Identifying concerns during a business meeting is
  when members discuss the criteria for a project
  or event that they want to do.

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Leadership Qualities

• Characteristics of individuals in groups
• Blocker a person who disagrees with every idea
  given or gives a reason why the idea would not
  work.
• Dominator a person who takes over and insist
  that their idea is the best.
• Recognition seeker a person who works hard for a
  group and then in return makes comments like my
  ideas helped us win last year.

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Business Procedures

• Order of business
• Call meeting to order and take roll call
• Read and approve minutes
• Hear treasurers report
• Hear reports from officers, special, and standing
  committees
• Conduct unfinished business
• Conduct new business
• Present program
• adjournment

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Business Procedures

• Basic parliamentary procedure
• The purpose of parliamentary procedure is to
  provide a framework that will allow an
  organization to conduct business in an orderly,
  efficient manner, and yet protect the rights of
  each member.

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Business Procedures

• The Main Motion
• A main motion brings an item of business before
  the assembly. It can be made only when no other
  motion is pending and must be seconded. To
  introduce a main motion, the members would get
  proper recognition from the chair. An example of
  a proper stated main motion is Madam/Sir
  President, I move that our FCCLA chapter sponsor
  a Valentines activity.

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Teen Living Notes

• Obj. 4.03 Practice job readiness skills

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Job Readiness Skills

• School to Career opportunities
• Assessment/planning
• Cooperative education
• Internship work
• Mentors
• apprenticeships

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Job Readiness Skills

• Readiness characteristics
• Appearance look your Best! Sunday Church
  type clothes!
• Attitude positive attitude when applying for a
  job will make a good impression. Have a can
  do winning attitude.
• Communication speak clearly to be heard and
  understood. Remember you are talking to ADULTS
  so speak adult language.

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Job Readiness Skills

• Continue with Readiness characteristics
• Professionalism be proper and conduct yourself
  in a business manner.
• SCANS Secretarys Commission on Achieving
  Necessary Skills
• Basic skills, thinking skills, and personal
  qualities
• using a laptop computer to keep up with current
  technology trends.

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Job Readiness Skills

• Practice Readiness Skills
• Foundation skills learn basic reading and
  writing skills along with math (adding
  subtracting) skills.
• Technology skills completing a report on a
  computer spreadsheet program.
• Job application answer every question honestly.

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Job Readiness Skills

• Continue with practicing job readiness skills
• Resume For a teenager with no work experience,
  when typing out a resume they should focus more
  on their interests and abilities.
• Interviews should be neat in appearance and
  show self-respect. Practicing for an interview
  will give you more self confidence.

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Job Readiness Skills

• During a job interview sit straight up in the
  chair with feet flat on the floor to indicate
  self confidence and interest in the job.
• After you send a letter of application to a
  business the next step to follow will be to call
  and request further information or an interview.
• Prejudice is a communication barrier that occurs
  when a person forms opinions about co-workers
  without complete knowledge or facts.

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Teen Living Notes

• Obj. 4.04 Discuss career opportunities in the
  community and family services field.

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Careers

• Career levels
• Entry level jobs for which little or no
  experience is required (just a high school
  diploma)
• Intermediate level need training beyond high
  school (associate degree from a community college
  2 year degree).
• Professional level requires a degree from a
  college or university (bachelors degree 4
  years) continue in grad school to get masters
  degree 2 more years continue further and
  receive the highest degree which is called
  doctoral Dr. degree time will vary With
  each higher level of degree this will mean a
  higher salary job.

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Careers

• Entrepreneurial a person who starts and manages
  his or her own business.
• Career opportunities number of jobs in the field
  of family and community science is expected to
  increase.
• Job qualifications an ability to understand
  human nature will help people succeed in this
  area. Workers need a true concern for people and
  their problems.
• Education and training the amount needed in
  order to work in that career.

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Careers

• Substance abuse counselor professional trained
  specifically to help people overcome drugs,
  gambling, and other types of addictions.
• FACS field jobs are relatively low pay for the
  level of responsibility.
• Social work position usually requires college
  degree.
• FACS field need to be flexible

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Careers

• To prepare for working in a new job learn as much
  about the company before you start.
• Examples career ladder for FACS
• High school diploma caseworkers aide
• Associate degree coordinator of volunteer
  services at a nursing home
• Bachelors degree social worker
• Advanced degree family therapist

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General notes

• Fairness means giving credit to others for their
  effort. Ex sharing gym with different teams.
• Honesty means telling the truth. Ex Telling
  salesclerk you broke a button off from a shirt.

• Good leaders plan, organize, implement (put in
  effect), and evaluate a project.
• Evaluate the plan first thing you do is ask
  yourself if you have accomplished your goals. Ex
  after you have purchased an item you wanted and
  time has passed, you think about how well you are
  enjoying it.

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General notes

• A person who focuses on job completion would best
  be known as a task oriented leader.
• Accepting differences among individuals shows
  great leadership.
• A good leader manages a meeting by following a
  set of rules first developed by the English
  parliament, called Parliamentary procedure
• The chair or chairperson is whom is in charge of
  conducting the meeting.

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General notes

• A misdemeanor is considered a minor criminal
  offenses.
• The plaintiff is the person making the complaint
  in civil law court.
• Every citizen has the responsibility to obey the
  law.
• Law enforcement services for the community are
  provided through tax dollars.