Leadership: personal development and career success. /
Cliff Ricketts
- New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1997.
- ix, 564 p.: ill.;
Includes index.
Contents: 1. Understanding leadership: Leadership categories and styles -- Developing styles -- 2. Communication and speaking before a group: Communication skills -- Reciting (FFA Creed) -- Prepared speaking (FFA public speaking) -- FFA extemporaneous speaking -- 3. Leading individuals and groups: Basic parliamentary procedure -- Advanced parliamentary procedure -- Group dynamics and team building -- Conducting successful meetings -- 4. Conceptual (Thinking) skills: Problem solving and decision making -- Goal setting -- 5. Personal development: Self-concept -- Learning styles and leadership -- 6. Transition to work skills: Selecting a career and finding a job -- Getting the job: resumes, applications, and interviews -- Employability skills: keeping the job -- Leadership through financial management and security --