Characteristics of a Great Leader

1. Characteristics of a Great Leader • Provide a clear goal or set of instructions • Lead by example • Get the right things done • Open Communication and take others opinions into consideration • Don’t complain and blame others • Sustain Momentum (continue great ideas/change ideas that aren’t working) • Treat others fairly and equal

2. Characteristics of Great Leaders • Great Communicator • Speaker of the People • Strong Work Ethic • Team Player • Great Character • Honest/Loyal/Trustworthy/Integrity • Intelligent • Facilitator

3. Characteristics of a Poor Leader • Ineffective communicator • Selfish • Mistreating others (violence, words etc) • Playing favorites (right period 3) • Not a person of the people • Terrible work ethic • Not listening • Not learning and growing • Making decisions without the care of others • Can’t handle criticism well

4. Characteristics of Leaders: Ancient to Modern

5. Leadership • Leadership- the act of guiding/directing a group of people Synonyms: management, command, lead, guide, direction “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.”—John Maxwell “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” —John Quincy Adams

6. Layout Editor or author. (if available) Name of Site. Name of institution/ organization affiliated with the site (sponsor or publisher), date of resource creation (if available). <Web Address>. Date of access.SampleThe Roman Empire in the First Century: Augustus. PBS DevillierDonegan Enterprises, 2006. <http://www.pbs.org/empires/romans/empire/augustus.html>. 27 February 2013. Sample Index Card (Notes and Citing Sources) (Electronic Source-Website)

7. Layout Last name, First name. Title of Book. City of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication. Sample Morgan, Julian. Nero: Destroyer of Rome. New York, NY: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc., 2003. Sample Index Card (Notes and Citing Sources) (One Author Book)

8. James Monroe Sample: Notecard #1 Source #1 Beschloss, Michael and Hugh Sidney. The Presidents of the United States of America: James Monroe. White House Historical Association, 2009. Web. 7 March 2013. Notes (Background) -Member of the Anti-Federalist Party -5th President of the United States -James Monroe’s administration started off being hailed as the beginning of an “Era of Good Feelings.”

9. James Monroe Sample: Notecard #2 • Source: The Presidents of the United States Notes (Major Events as President) -Missouri Compromise was a major piece of legislation passed during James Monroe’s time as president (Missouri became a slave state, Maine a free state, and made slavery North and West of Missouri illegal) - Monroe Doctrine- proclaimed United States foreign policy to protect the Americas from outside invaders. European powers can no longer colonize the west.

10. James Monroe Sample: Notecard #3 • Source: Davis, Kenneth C. Don’t Know Much About The American Presidents. New York, NY: Hyperion, 2012. Notes (View on Slavery) -James Monroe was the last of the “Virginia Dynasty” Presidents (first four of five Presidents were born in Virginia. (Page 124) • Slavery one of the key issues that impacted Monroe’s Administration. (He was in favor of gradual emancipation and sending the free slaves to Africa)

11. NeroSample #1 Source: The Roman Empire in the First Century: Nero. PBS: DevillierDoneganEnterprises, 2006. <http://www.pbs.org/empires/romans/empire/nero.html>. 27 February 2013. Notes (Early Years as Emperor) -Nero’s reign as emperor starts when his mom Agrippina murders Claudius -Became the 5th Emperor of Rome in 54 C.E. -Gave the Senate more independence (at first popular)

12. NeroSample: Notecard #2 Source: The Roman Empire in the First Century: Nero. PBS: DevillierDoneganEnterprises, 2006. <http://www.pbs.org/empires/romans/empire/augustus.html>. 27 February 2013. Notes (Violence and Terror) -Wandered the streets murdering innocent people. - Had his own mother murdered - After hearing about an assassination plot, Nero unleashed terror on Rome and executed a large number of Roman citizens.

13. Nero Sample: Notecard #3 Source: Suetonius. The Lives of the Caesars. New York, NY: Barnes & Noble Inc., 2004. Notes (Great Fire of Rome) -For six days and seven nights the great fire of Rome raged throughout the city (page 202) -Destroyed a majority of houses and apartments in Rome. (202) -Took control of the property affected by the fire as his own for the years that followed 64 C.E. (202)

14. Nero Sample: Notecard #4 Source Morgan, Julian. Nero: Destroyer of Rome. New York, NY: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc., 2003. Notes (Financial Disaster following the Great Fire) -The wasteland created by the great fire was used to build the “Golden House” took a toll on Rome’s finances. -Nero had six landowners in North Africa killed so they could claim their estates and the revenue from it to help build the “Golden House” (page 51) -Had drained Rome with other projects including a 120 foot high statue of himself built called the Colossus (page 47)

15. Works Cited Page Beschloss, Michael and Hugh Sidney. The Presidents of the United States of America. White House Historical Association, 2009.http://whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/jamesmonroe 1 March 2013. Davis, Kenneth C. Don’t Know Much About The American Presidents. New York, NY: Hyperion, 2012. Morgan, Julian. Nero: Destroyer of Rome. New York, NY: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc., 2003. Suetonius. The Lives of the Caesars. New York, NY: Barnes & Noble Inc., 2004. The Roman Empire in the First Century: Nero. PBS DevillierDonegan Enterprises, 2006. <http://www.pbs.org/empires/romans/empire/augustus.html>. 27 February 2013.