Leadership: Personal Development and Career Success

作者: Cliff Ricketts 著 , John Ricketts 著

出版社: Cengage Learning

出版时间: 2010-05

版次: 3

ISBN: 9781435492882

定价: 1891.00

装帧: 精装

页数: 640页

正文语种: 英语

分类: 外文古旧书>英文书>自然科学

Defying the tired cliché that leaders are born and not made, Leadership: Personal Development and Career Success 3rd Edition explains and demonstrates the leadership skills and abilities that are most valued in agricultural industries, helping students to identify and enhance their strongest traits. The authors' emphasis is on human relations, decision-making, promoting healthy lifestyles, maintaining a positive attitude, cooperative small and large group activities, and proper utilization of human resources, focusing on those skills that will most benefit the leaders of tomorrow.

Leadership: Personal Development and Career Success 3rd Edition analyzes attributes and capabilities of those in leadership positions, to assist students in the development of their communication skills and interpersonal relationship and other related skills. Students will learn the fundamentals of public speaking, FFA Parliamentary Procedure, group dynamics, interpersonal skills and workplace readiness. English, speaking skills, higher order thinking, and basic communication skills will be reinforced.

A generous number of activities, along with objectives and questions, motivate students to put these into action. A financial management chapter details how to successfully manage, budget and invest money with innovative ideas on accumulating personal wealth through agricultural enterprises.
As we enter the 21st century and a global marketplace, these skills will become more important as an asset for career success. Leadership: Personal Development and Career Success 3rd Edition will prepare students for agricultural careers, build awareness, and develop tomorrow's leaders in the food, fiber, and natural resources fields. Dr Cliff Ricketts came through the ranks of agricultural education and the Future Farmers of America; he is a product of the program. He has achieved every degree offered by the FFA, including the Greenhand, Chapter, State, and American FFA (Farmer) degrees; Honorary Chapter; Honorary State; and Honorary American FFA; the last of which was received the same year by the former President George W. Bush and Lee Iacocca. As a high school agricultural education instructor, his students won the State FFA Parliamentary Procedure Contest, State FFA Creed Speaking Contest (four times), and were awarded runner-up in Public Speaking. Ricketts was also a recipient of the National Extemporaneous Speaking. Ricketts was also a recipient of the National Vocational Agriculture Teachers Association's National Award while a high school teacher. Ricketts received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from the University of Tennessee and his Ph.D. from The Ohio State University. While teaching at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU), he received both the MTSU Foundation's Outstanding Public Service Award and its Outstanding Teacher Award twice, He was also a finalist for its Outstanding Research Award and Career Achievement Award. Ricketts is still involved in production agriculture with a beef cattle operation on his family farm 20 miles east of Nashville, Tennessee. His children, John, Mitzi, and Paul and six grandchildren are the fifth generation on the family farm. Cliff Ricketts is also involved with alternative fuels research and has run engines off ethanol from corn, methane, from cow manure, soybean oil, and hydrogen from water. He and his students from Middle Tennessee State University presently hold the world's land speed record for a hydrogen-fueled vehicle. Ricketts has made approximately 1,000 presentations on leadership and alternative fuels in his 33 years at MTSU.^Associate Professor, Teacher Educator, University of Georgia Bio: Dr. John C. Ricketts is also a product of the Agricultural Education program. He too has received the American FFA Degree, the highest degree available in the FFA. Currently John is Associate Professor, University of Georgia (UGA). He is Chair of the Editorial Board for the Journal of Leadership Educators, and a recipient of the following honors: Outstanding Young Agricultural Educator, American Association of Agricultural Education (AAAE), Southern Region, 2008; 3 time recipient of UGA's Outstanding Teaching Faculty Award; UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (CAES) Outstanding Academic Advisor Award, 2007; Recipient of the Gamma Sigma Delta Jr. Achievement in Teaching Award, 2006. John has taught leadership at the secondary, post-secondary, and graduate levels of education, and he is a prolific author of scholarly research on leadership development and critical thinking/decision-making in Agricultural Education. Last but not least, John tries to practice leadership development with his family, Jennifer (wife), Jamey (daughter) and Jackson (son). SECTION 1 UNDERSTANDING LEADERSHIP.
Chapter 1 Leadership Categories and Styles.
Chapter 2 Personality Types and Their Relationship to Leadership and Human Behavior.
Chapter 3 Learning Styles and Leadership.
Chapter 4 Developing Leaders.
Chapter 5 Leading Teams and Groups.
SECTION 2 COMMUNICATION AND SPEAKING TO GROUPS.
Chapter 6 Communication Skills.
Chapter 7 Reciting (FFA Creed).
Chapter 8 Prepared Speaking (FFA Public Speaking).
Chapter 9 FFA Extemporaneous Public Speaking.
SECTION 3 LEADING INDIVIDUALS AND GROUPS.
Chapter 10 Basic Parliamentary Procedure.
Chapter 11 Advanced Parliamentary Procedure.
Chapter 12 Conducting Successful Meetings.
SECTION 4 MANAGERIAL LEADERSHIP SKILLS.
Chapter 13 Problem Solving and Decision Making.
Chapter 14 Goal Setting.
Chapter 15 Time Management.
Chapter 16 Motivating Others.
SECTION 5 PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT.
Chapter 17 Conflict Resolution.
Chapter 18 Self-Concept.
Chapter 19 Attitudes.
Chapter 20 Ethics in the Workplace.
SECTION 6 TRANSITION TO WORK SKILLS.
Chapter 21 Selecting a Career and Finding a Job.
Chapter 22 Getting the Job: Resumes, Applications, and Interviews.
Chapter 23 Employability Skills: Keeping the Job.
内容简介:
Defying the tired cliché that leaders are born and not made, Leadership: Personal Development and Career Success 3rd Edition explains and demonstrates the leadership skills and abilities that are most valued in agricultural industries, helping students to identify and enhance their strongest traits. The authors' emphasis is on human relations, decision-making, promoting healthy lifestyles, maintaining a positive attitude, cooperative small and large group activities, and proper utilization of human resources, focusing on those skills that will most benefit the leaders of tomorrow.

Leadership: Personal Development and Career Success 3rd Edition analyzes attributes and capabilities of those in leadership positions, to assist students in the development of their communication skills and interpersonal relationship and other related skills. Students will learn the fundamentals of public speaking, FFA Parliamentary Procedure, group dynamics, interpersonal skills and workplace readiness. English, speaking skills, higher order thinking, and basic communication skills will be reinforced.

A generous number of activities, along with objectives and questions, motivate students to put these into action. A financial management chapter details how to successfully manage, budget and invest money with innovative ideas on accumulating personal wealth through agricultural enterprises.
As we enter the 21st century and a global marketplace, these skills will become more important as an asset for career success. Leadership: Personal Development and Career Success 3rd Edition will prepare students for agricultural careers, build awareness, and develop tomorrow's leaders in the food, fiber, and natural resources fields.
作者简介:
Dr Cliff Ricketts came through the ranks of agricultural education and the Future Farmers of America; he is a product of the program. He has achieved every degree offered by the FFA, including the Greenhand, Chapter, State, and American FFA (Farmer) degrees; Honorary Chapter; Honorary State; and Honorary American FFA; the last of which was received the same year by the former President George W. Bush and Lee Iacocca. As a high school agricultural education instructor, his students won the State FFA Parliamentary Procedure Contest, State FFA Creed Speaking Contest (four times), and were awarded runner-up in Public Speaking. Ricketts was also a recipient of the National Extemporaneous Speaking. Ricketts was also a recipient of the National Vocational Agriculture Teachers Association's National Award while a high school teacher. Ricketts received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from the University of Tennessee and his Ph.D. from The Ohio State University. While teaching at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU), he received both the MTSU Foundation's Outstanding Public Service Award and its Outstanding Teacher Award twice, He was also a finalist for its Outstanding Research Award and Career Achievement Award. Ricketts is still involved in production agriculture with a beef cattle operation on his family farm 20 miles east of Nashville, Tennessee. His children, John, Mitzi, and Paul and six grandchildren are the fifth generation on the family farm. Cliff Ricketts is also involved with alternative fuels research and has run engines off ethanol from corn, methane, from cow manure, soybean oil, and hydrogen from water. He and his students from Middle Tennessee State University presently hold the world's land speed record for a hydrogen-fueled vehicle. Ricketts has made approximately 1,000 presentations on leadership and alternative fuels in his 33 years at MTSU.^Associate Professor, Teacher Educator, University of Georgia Bio: Dr. John C. Ricketts is also a product of the Agricultural Education program. He too has received the American FFA Degree, the highest degree available in the FFA. Currently John is Associate Professor, University of Georgia (UGA). He is Chair of the Editorial Board for the Journal of Leadership Educators, and a recipient of the following honors: Outstanding Young Agricultural Educator, American Association of Agricultural Education (AAAE), Southern Region, 2008; 3 time recipient of UGA's Outstanding Teaching Faculty Award; UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (CAES) Outstanding Academic Advisor Award, 2007; Recipient of the Gamma Sigma Delta Jr. Achievement in Teaching Award, 2006. John has taught leadership at the secondary, post-secondary, and graduate levels of education, and he is a prolific author of scholarly research on leadership development and critical thinking/decision-making in Agricultural Education. Last but not least, John tries to practice leadership development with his family, Jennifer (wife), Jamey (daughter) and Jackson (son).
目录:
SECTION 1 UNDERSTANDING LEADERSHIP.
Chapter 1 Leadership Categories and Styles.
Chapter 2 Personality Types and Their Relationship to Leadership and Human Behavior.
Chapter 3 Learning Styles and Leadership.
Chapter 4 Developing Leaders.
Chapter 5 Leading Teams and Groups.
SECTION 2 COMMUNICATION AND SPEAKING TO GROUPS.
Chapter 6 Communication Skills.
Chapter 7 Reciting (FFA Creed).
Chapter 8 Prepared Speaking (FFA Public Speaking).
Chapter 9 FFA Extemporaneous Public Speaking.
SECTION 3 LEADING INDIVIDUALS AND GROUPS.
Chapter 10 Basic Parliamentary Procedure.
Chapter 11 Advanced Parliamentary Procedure.
Chapter 12 Conducting Successful Meetings.
SECTION 4 MANAGERIAL LEADERSHIP SKILLS.
Chapter 13 Problem Solving and Decision Making.
Chapter 14 Goal Setting.
Chapter 15 Time Management.
Chapter 16 Motivating Others.
SECTION 5 PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT.
Chapter 17 Conflict Resolution.
Chapter 18 Self-Concept.
Chapter 19 Attitudes.
Chapter 20 Ethics in the Workplace.
SECTION 6 TRANSITION TO WORK SKILLS.
Chapter 21 Selecting a Career and Finding a Job.
Chapter 22 Getting the Job: Resumes, Applications, and Interviews.
Chapter 23 Employability Skills: Keeping the Job.

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