Leadership 101: Developing Leadership Skills for Resilient Youth Facilitator's Guide [Paperback]

Mariam G. MacGregor (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0967798108 | ISBN-13: 978-0967798103 | Publication Date: January 1, 2000

Leadership 101: Developing Leadership Skills for Resilient Youth is a "foundations of leadership" curriculum for teen leaders. The facilitator's guide consists of eighteen (90 minute) lessons or over 30 (50 minute) lessons. Topics include: defining leadership, qualities of leaders/leadership, self-assessment, power/influence/authority, communication & listening, consensus, ethical leadership, team building, gender & leadership, tolerance & diversity, motivation, risk taking, creative thinking, and encouragement & appreciation. Other topics are addressed in the debriefing and application of each activity/lesson. All activities are designed to be experiential and include debriefing and reflection guidelines. An accompanying student workbook is also available (Leadership 101: Developing Your Leadership Skills).

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About the Author

Mariam MacGregor has a BA in Management from Gettysburg College and a MS in Student Affairs in Higher Education from Colorado State University. After working with student leadership development at the college level, she chose to focus on leadership education at the secondary level.

Prior to working in secondary education, she served as Associate Director of Student Activities/Leadership Development Director at Metropolitan State College of Denver; Assistant Director, Center for Student Leadership at Santa Clara University; and Assistant Director for Leadership and Student Organizations at Syracuse University.

Product Details

• Paperback: 135 pages
• Publisher: Youthleadership.Com (January 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0967798108
• ISBN-13: 978-0967798103
• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 8.2 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,280,385 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars An OK start..., January 24, 2002

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This review is from: Leadership 101: Developing Leadership Skills for Resilient Youth Facilitator's Guide (Paperback)

This author has created a semester-long guide for a high school leadership class. She covers the theory and some of the skills of leaders. As such, it is more cognitive than not, and even though she uses daily class exercises and feedback, it is not experiential. Her curriculum guide does not involve group projects or group process. She is oriented more toward intellectual and using ego-ideals than experience. She has midterm and final exams in this book.

Nevertheless, many of her points are well taken and worth reading.

For teachers interested in building classroom experiences that affect skills of leaders (e.g., active listening, self-concept and self-esteem, values, vision and goals, stress management), you might consider Susan Fritz's Interpersonal Skills for Leadership (Prentice-Hall, 1999), even though it is written for a college-level class. Using both MacGregor and Fritz, you will be able to create a very interesting set of cognitive and experiential lessons, aimed at both conceptual and skill-building outcomes.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars a terrific and practical resource for teaching leadership, September 1, 2004

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bex3602 (albany, ny) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Leadership 101: Developing Leadership Skills for Resilient Youth Facilitator's Guide (Paperback)

After years of having a leadership class that only enrolled certain students, our school revamped how we wanted to teach leadership and selected this curriculum because of its academic/activity-based format. I have used Leadership 101 for three semesters and every time I am rewarded with an engaging approach to teaching leadership. Each of the activities promotes energetic discussion and creates an atmosphere where the students need to take on leadership roles within their class.

I am finding that the students who are taking the leadership class are more diverse than when we did selection based on club participation, student council, etc. This curriculum allows any student to evaluate his/her own leadership skills and creates a good setting to test newly acquired leadership skills. The author also has a website and is very accessible through emails, which helped me as a new leadership teacher. Leadership 101 is a terrific resource with clear format and explanations for using in your leadership class.

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must for all educators interested in youth leadership, March 2, 2000

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Kevin Krueger - See all my reviews

This review is from: Leadership 101: Developing Leadership Skills for Resilient Youth Facilitator's Guide (Paperback)

"Developing Leadership Skills for Resilient Youth" is an essential tool for people interested in developing leadership programs for youth. MacGregor has hit upon the perfect combination of formatted lessons and flexable curriculm sugesstions.This comprehensive facilitator's guide and the accompanying workbook provide an outstanding basis for developing a leadership program for any school or youth organization. Furthermore, this book can be used as a tool to measure and evaluate leadership skills and abilities for youth. MacGregor has easily achieved her goal of designing a resource which "establishes a foundation for youth leadershipeducation programs for adolescents and young adults"