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What is Leadership?
This handout is designed to accompany “Leadership Module 2: Enhancing Youth Leadership”
online training powerpoint. Please have the Step Up to Leadership Mentor Guide for Grades
6-12 available or print off the following handouts.
• “Assess Myself” (pp. 18-19)
• “Talent Search” (pp. 34-35)
• “Fostering Youth Leadership Development” (p.10)
We encourage you to review all the Step Up to Leadership Project Manuals while taking this
training. Information on how to purchase these publications is in the online training.
Activity 1: What is Leadership?
1. Think about people who have influenced your life. Write in the box below a list of their
leadership traits.
2. Think about how your members would answer this question: Who would you choose as a
person who has influenced you and what traits do they have? What responses do you think
they would have? In what way would a young person’s responses be different than yours?
Write down your thoughts.
You can test your thoughts by asking young people in your club this question the next time
you meet with them.
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Activity 2: Leadership Traits
“Leadership is the ability to influence and support others in a positive manner for a common
goal.”
• It can be learned.
• Everyone has leadership potential.
• Everyone can make a difference.
1. Using the list of leadership traits you generated earlier, place them in one of the four
leadership practices in this chart.
Categories of Youth Leadership
Relationship Building
(trust, responsibility, empathy)
Communication
(active listening, offering ideas, asking
questions)
Planning and Organizing
(develop and carry out a goal,
teamwork)
Group Process
(knowing strategies to handle conflict,
getting ideas of the group)
Activity 3: Great Leaders
1. Using the 4 leadership categories of youth to guide you, write two or three sentences about
what great leaders do to influence and support others in a positive manner for a common
goal.
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Activity 4: Talent Search
1. In the chart list five club members and the leadership skills or talents they possess.
Next, identify the leadership category these skills fit in Column 3.
You may or may not have someone listed for each of the four categories. This may give you
an opportunity to identify other members in your club who have these skills.
Name of Member Skill or Talent Identify Category of Talent
(Relationship, communication,
planning, or group process)
Activity 5: Club Meetings
1. In the first column of the chart below, list tasks needed to make the club run smoothly.
Consider tasks that encourage:
• relationship building
• good communication
• planning and organizing
• good group process
2. List the name of a youth who has the skill/talent to complete the task.
3. Identify a member you could help to develop the leadership skill or talent.
Member Name with Member You Could Help
Tasks Needed Talent/Skill to Complete Develop Talent/Skill to
Task Complete the Task
4. What are the ways you will help the young people you identified in Column 3 to develop the
leadership skills needed to complete the task?
Review the activities Talent Search and Assess Myself, which can be used to help youth assess
their own leadership talents or abilities.
Reference: Step Up to Leadership, Mentor Guide for Grades 6-12 (4HCCSBU07904)
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Activity 6: Opportunities to Practice
1. Read the article 4-H Volunteers Make a Difference after finishing this powerpoint. It is a
link under the list of “Training Materials” on your online training. Use this article to think
about what specific behaviors of 4-H volunteers led to leadership development in members.
2. Turn to page 10 of the Step Up to Leadership Mentor Guide. Please read about Fostering
Youth Leadership Development to understand the types of experiences that should be
included in a leadership development program.
Match the following “Types of Experiences” with “Opportunities Available in 4-H.”
Type of Experience Opportunities Available in 4-H
Pair an older member with a younger
st
Collaborative Experiences A. member for their 1 presentation
Provide project workshops in areas of
Personal Character Development B. interest for your members
Mentoring/Role Officer team meetings to determine the
Modeling/Nurturing C. agenda for a club meeting
Youth and adult members on the county fair
Cultural and Citizenship board planning the annual event and deciding
Experiences D. rules and expectations.
Work on record books at the end of each year
and provide opportunities for members to
Communication Experiences E. share what they’ve learned.
Do the What Motivates You activity as a
group, and share what you learned about
Management Experiences F. yourselves.
Recreation at each meeting led by a youth,
allowing participants to get to know each
Group Leadership Experiences G other
State recognition process, including
preparing support materials and interviewing
Formal Education H. for statewide opportunities
Spiritual and Other Life
Experiences I. Participate in 4-H Day at the Legislature
3. Identify opportunities you know that are available to youth in your community under each of
these types of experience.
• Remember to encourage your members to take advantage of these opportunities.
• Check out the Explore Your Outer Limits publications for statewide opportunities for
club members. It is linked from the list of “Training Materials.”
Collaborative Experiences
Personal Character Development
Mentoring/Role Modeling/Nurturing
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