Teen Living Notes

1. Teen Living Notes Obj. 4.01 Demonstrate characteristics of effective leadership.

2. 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 person’s response to membership in a community

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. Teen Living Notes Obj. 4.02 Practice positive group interaction

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 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.

11. 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.”

12. Business Procedures • Order of business: • Call meeting to order and take roll call • Read and approve minutes • Hear treasurer’s report • Hear reports from officers, special, and standing committees • Conduct unfinished business • Conduct new business • Present program • adjournment

13. 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.

14. 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 Valentine’s activity.”

15. Teen Living Notes Obj. 4.03 Practice job readiness skills

16. Job Readiness Skills • School to Career opportunities: • Assessment/planning • Cooperative education • Internship work • Mentors • apprenticeships

17. 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.

18. Job Readiness Skills • Continue with Readiness characteristics: • Professionalism – be proper and conduct yourself in a business manner. • SCANS “Secretary’s Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills” • Basic skills, thinking skills, and personal qualities • using a laptop computer to keep up with current technology trends.

19. 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.

20. 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.

21. 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.

22. Teen Living Notes Obj. 4.04 Discuss career opportunities in the community and family services field.

23. 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 (bachelor’s degree {4 years}) [continue in grad school to get master’s 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.

24. 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.

25. 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

26. 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: caseworker’s aide • Associate degree: coordinator of volunteer services at a nursing home • Bachelor’s degree: social worker • Advanced degree: family therapist

27. 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. General notes

28. 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.

29. 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.