Learning Styles-Unit 9-Career-Choices-Bridges Ending with the culmination project of a Final PowerPoint Presentation and Oral Presentation of Student Discovery of Learning Styles, MI, and Thoughts of Future Career Possibilities. Education Planner http://www.educationplanner.org/students/self-assessments/index.shtml The following link allows students to take self-assessment quizzes to discover learning styles, study habits, and character. This is to be used with the "It's All About Me" Final PowerPoint and Oral Presentation. What is your Leadership Style? Are you Participative, Authoritative, or Delagative? In this activity you will take a leadership inventory to find out where your strengths are! View this Word document to learn more about Leadership Styles, then discover your own Leadership Styles. U1_C3_Leadership_Defined_Leadership_Styles (1).docx leadership styles - see page 2 - explains differences in Directions: Click on the website below: http://psychology.about.com/library/quiz/bl-leadershipquiz.htm There are 18 questions. Read each question and select the option that best fits you. 1. When you are finished with the survey, click Continue. Read your results then MINIMIZE your window. Do NOT close the window. 2. We will complete the Leadership Activity together as a class. Leadership Styles Activity: Leadership Style Activity.doc Leadership Defined and Leadership Styles Leadership is influencing and directing the performance of group members towards the achievement of organizational goals. www.booksites.net/download/chadwickbeech/Glossary.htm Leadership means working with and through people by providing them with a vision of the future which is meaningful to them and motivating. Leadership is both strategic (planned) and pragmatic (practical) and encourages all members of a team to deliver their best as an individual and as a team member. www.marketright.co.nz/Site/definitions.aspx Leadership is a process that takes place in groups in which one member influences and controls the behavior of the other members toward some common goal. www.latinoleadership.org/research/library/dictionary.html Authoritative (Autocratic) Participative (Democratic) Provide clear Most effective leader expectations for what needs to be done and how it needs to be done Make decisions without Offer guidance but allow input from the group input from group members Used when there is little time for group decision making Used when the leader is the most knowledgeable member of the group Encourage members to participate in decision making but have the final say over the decision making process Group members feel creative and motivated Delegative (Laissez-Fair) Least productive of the three groups Group members show little cooperation and are unable to work independently Offer little guidance and leave all the decision making to the group Can be effective when the group is highly qualified or has the expertise to make the decision Source: http://psychology.about.com/od/leadership/a/leadstyles.htm