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Can Any Youth Be A Leader?

Can Any Youth Be A Leader?. A Look at Assets of Youth Leadership Development. Karen Henry Joy Jordan Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences University of Florida. Goals. Discuss vanLinden and Fertman’s theory of youth leadership development Stages Dimensions

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Can Any Youth Be A Leader?

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  1. Can Any Youth Be A Leader? A Look at Assets of Youth Leadership Development Karen Henry Joy Jordan Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences University of Florida

  2. Goals • Discuss vanLinden and Fertman’s theory of youth leadership development • Stages • Dimensions • Review tools and resources for use • Discuss applications and programming

  3. What is Leadership? • Leadership connotes releasing of energy, building, freeing, growing (Peters and Austin, 1985) • Ability to influence the actions of others (Halloran and Benton, 1987) • The ability to motivate • Everyone has leadership potential (Bennis and Nanus, 1985)

  4. Transactional vs. Transformational • Transactional • Transformational

  5. Why study youth leadership? • Youth are in a number of leadership positions • Little assessment whether the adolescent had the right “tools”

  6. Youth Leadership • Developmental process • Three Stages • Five Dimensions

  7. Stages of Leadership Development • Stages are sequential and fluid • vanLinden and Fertman’s stages: • Awareness • Interaction • Mastery

  8. Five Dimensions • Leadership Information • Leadership Attitude • Communication Skills • Decision-making Skills • Self-management Skills

  9. Leadership Information • What adolescents know about leadership and leaders • Accurate information is critical • Adults help teens discriminate information

  10. Leadership Attitude • Adolescents’ dispositions, thoughts and feelings towards identifying themselves as leaders • Attitudes are learned • Attitudes are constantly altered

  11. Communication Skills • The exchange of thoughts, messages and information • Process of sharing • Includes both verbal and nonverbal communication

  12. Decision-Making Skills • Choosing between competing courses of action • Creates a discrepancy between transactional and transformation leaders • Decision-making is a process

  13. Self-Management Skills • How adolescents react to and deal with the stress in their lives • Ability to regulate stress • Pertains to issues of autonomy and locus of control

  14. Activity Identifying Stages

  15. Awareness • Focus on initial awareness of one’s leadership potential and abilities • Youth in this stage: • Do not think of themselves as a leader • Don’t feel capable of being a leader

  16. Interaction • Growth in leadership skills occurs and confidence solidifies through interaction • Youth in this stage: • Have a limited definition of leadership • Believe that the leader is “in charge” • Need adult support and guidance

  17. Mastery • The focus is mastery of leadership skills in specific areas and activities in life • Youth in this stage: • Believe that anyone can be a leader • Are aware of his/her own strengths and weaknesses as a leader

  18. Assessment • A research study was conducted in 2000 • Reliable “measures or indicators” of these three stages of leadership • Relationship between their stage of development, and their leadership development, locus of control and type of leadership experiences

  19. Findings • Youth fell into the three distinct stages • Different levels of experiences were associated with each of the three stages

  20. Application-- Moving youth through the stages • The importance of experiences • The role of adults (support) • Roles in youth and community organizations (opportunities)

  21. Experiences for Youth • Knowledge • Skills • Practice

  22. Support-- The Role of Adults • Mentoring/Guidance • Resources • Role models

  23. Opportunities—Roles in Youth and Community Organizations • Allow youth the means to develop leadership skills through practice • Make it meaningful!

  24. Workshop in review • vanLinden and Fertman’s theory of youth leadership development • Applications • Resources for Programming

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