Leadership Personal Development and Career Success

Name: Leadership Personal Development and Career Success
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ISBN: 9780766825369

ISBN-10: 0766825361

ISBN-13: 9780766825369

Edition: 2nd 2003

Authors: Cliff Ricketts

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For students pursuing careers in agriculture, this text of choice emphasizes training for leadership, techniques for personal development, and how to select and succeed in a career. Learning styles to help students understand the way they learn and identify aptitudes and talents to facilitate career selection, are discussed. How personality types relate to leadership, learning, and communication styles, helps students to have a greater awareness of self and others. As personal development is key to confidence and success in the work place, the text offers practical insights on positive reinforcement and motivation, self-concept, goal-setting, problem-solving and public speaking. Among the…

Book details

List price: $188.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Delmar Cengage Learning
Publication date: 10/22/2001
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 640
Size: 8.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.882
Language: English

Cliff Ricketts holds a Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Education and a Masters of Education (Administration and Supervision) from the University of Tennessee. He received his PhD in Agricultural and Teacher Education from Ohio State University. The winner of several prestigious awards (including AGR Agricultural Teacher of the Year and FFA Blue & Gold Award), Dr. Ricketts has taught a wide variety of Agricultural Education and Teaching Methods courses over his fifteen-year career. He is currently a Professor of Agricultural Education in the Department of Agribusiness and Agriscience at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.



Preface


About the Author


Acknowledgments



Understanding Leadership



Leadership Categories and Styles



Personality Types and Their Relationship to Leadership and Human Behavior



Learning Styles and Leadership



Developing Leaders



Leading Teams and Groups



Communication and Speaking to Groups



Communication Skills



Reciting (FFA Creed)



Prepared Speaking (FFA Public Speaking)



FFA Extemporaneous Public Speaking



Leading Individuals and Groups



Basic Parliamentary Procedure



Advanced Parliamentary Procedure



Conducting Successful Meetings



Managerial Leadership Skills



Problem Solving and Decision Making



Goal Setting



Time Management



Positive Reinforcement and Motivation



Personal Development



Self-Concept



Attitudes



Ethics in the Workplace



Transition to Work Skills



Selecting a Career and Finding a Job



Getting the Job: Resumes, Applications, and Interviews



Employability Skills: Keeping the Job


Glossary



The "Shotgun Approach": Implementation of Key Principles of Learning



Personality Characteristics



Personality Profile



Communication Styles



Working with the Four Personality Types and Communication Styles



Parliamentary Procedure Career Development Event



Careers in Agriculture



Jobs in Agriculture



National FFA Job Interview Career Development Event


Index