1) Title Leader

This goes with a position that has been awarded to you. People follow you because they have to!

To get to the next level you must:

• Accept responsibility
• Know your job
• Know your party, group or organization’s goals
• Know your team members
• Be consistent

2) Permission Leader

This power comes from relationships. People follow you because they want to!

To get to the next level you must:

• Be positive
• See yourself and your problems through other people’s eyes
• Make other people successful
• Make Win/Win situations
• Include others in your progress
• Really care about other people

3) Results Leader

The leadership comes because you have results and people want to be with a winner!

To get to the next level you must:

• Develop a statement mission
• Be accountable
• Use your resources well
• Promote others

4) Replica Leader

People want to follow you and be around you so they can duplicate your success.

To get to the next level you must:

• Model good leadership
• Expose your future leaderships to growth
• Equip people so they can also equip people and allow them to grow
• Compliment your followers

5) Ideal hood

This leader is made to look better than s/he is.

To get to the next level you must realize that:

• You cannot do anything. It is given to you as a reward.
• You cannot get from one level without doing the previous level. For example, once you’re at stage 3, you can’t stop doing level 1. So, in short, you always have to be nice to people.

Respect is EARNED not GIVEN!

We hope that you will find these resources helpful in improving yourself and your grades!

As this library grows, the focus of its articles will be:

• Cooperative learning,
• Problem solving,
• Communication skills,
• Team building,
• Self-development,
• Taking on responsibility.

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These resources are useful on their own, and will be handy when participating in our school or home school projects.

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Make your Team the best.

To swim across the Pacific you need a team! To swim across Beaver Lake, you can do it alone.

Your Hefty Goals should continue to make the team grow.

Attitude:

1. Our Attitude is OUR CHOICE
• You can choose how you feel
• Do not blame others or things for how you feel
• Champions take responsibility for their attitude
2. Our Attitude can change obstacles into gold
• You can change a problem to a positive outcome by your attitude
• It is not a setback but a chance to grow and learn

The ceiling of your team’s accomplishments reflects your ability to lead. If you’re not a good leader your team will struggle, however, you can change that if YOU CHOOSE TO! It will take time, it may not be a quick fix but big accomplishments take effort.

Are you proud that you can blink your eyes? If you are, then maybe you should dream higher.

Fill in the blank: I am proud that I did ______ (It probably took time and effort). The saying “Aim for the moon, even if you miss you will be among the stars” is a great one. But, it takes time to build a rocket and a space suit.

How many times do you think, “Man, I would like to be like (Person A)?” My question is, “Are you willing to do what (Person A) did to be like that?” It is a process that takes effort and time. Champions make the right choices.

It’s up to you!

Five more key ideas for being a Champion

1. Champions challenge the program by doing more
2. Champions share and inspire with their vision i.e. Take the goal from ME to WE
3. Champions let others act and be successful
4. Champions model how others should act
5. Champions encourage teammates to be successful and make them feel good about themselves

What have you done today to make yourself better?

To achieve greatness you need more than just yourself!

Think of it. If you have a great idea and I have a great idea but we do not share them, how many ideas do you have? Just one. However, if we share our ideas then the minimum amount of ideas that come from this is two.

Here are some helpful hints on how to become a leader.

It is said that 87% of being a leader is the knowledge of how to treat people and that only 13% is knowledge of the topic.

Here are some ways to treat someone:

1. Accept yourself. If you don’t respect yourself, who will?

2. Put energy into being likeable. Yes, some people need more energy than others, but if you put the in the effort you will see the benefits.

3. Remember people’s names. This is not my strength but I assure you it is important.

4. Focus on THEIR interests. Everyone likes to talk about themselves. It’s an easy way to get them to feel comfortable around you.

5. Request the help of others and let them be a leader. This shows others you feel confident in them and also lets you show them how to be act when they are the leader.

6. Add value to people:

• Truly Value People. If you do this, your aim is to make their lives better; therefore, you will not take advantage of them.

• If you continue to learn, people will come to you to learn, thus adding value to theirs lives.

• Know and relate to THEIR Values. This does not mean giving up yours, but understanding theirs and relating them to your life.

7. 101%! This theory says that if you focus on the 1% you agree on and put 100% of the effort on that, then you can achieve greatness.

8. Like people more than their opinions. You may not like their ideas but you still like them.

9. Like people anyway and take the “high road”. You can never ever go wrong by taking this path.

10. Seek out new resources on becoming a better person so you help people better.

Reasons why you so far have not chosen this way of thinking:

1. It’s hard work

2. You underestimate people

3. You enjoy doing the task yourself

4. Your ego gets stroked for being needed. A good leader is not needed.

5. You are in the habit of doing everything

6. You lose control

7. You fail to see the leadership in others

Get over it! There are no excuses. You need to be a leader in this class!