Discuss leadership qualities desired
by the small animal care industry
Objective 1.01
Leadership Qualities
• Integrity: honesty
• Courage: willing to go forward under
difficult conditions
• Management: using people,
resources and processes to reach a
goal
Leadership Qualities
• Unselfishness: placing the desires and
welfare of others above yourself
• Loyalty: reliable support for an
individual, group or cause
• Enthusiasm: energy to do a job and
the inspiration to encourage others
Leadership Qualities
• Plan: think through, determine
procedures
• Knowledge: awareness,
understanding
• Tact: saying or doing the right thing
without offending
Components of Instructional
Program
• SAE- provides opportunities to
explore interests and to gain work
experiences
• Classroom instruction: studying and
learning subject matter in the
classroom
Components of Instructional
Program
• Laboratory Instruction: learning by
demonstrations and practice in
shops, greenhouses, nurseries, and
other settings
• FFA: club or organization that
develops leadership and citizenship
skills includes CDE’s
FFA
• Communication skills are developed
through speaking career
development events, such as public
speaking, creed, parliamentary
procedure, extemporaneous
speaking, agricultural sales and
poultry, dairy, and livestock oral
reasons
Cooperative Extension Service
• Educational agency of USDA and part
of the university system
• Sponsors 4-H clubs to enhance
personal development and provide
skill development for agricultural
youth
Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts
• Provide excellent leadership
development
• Focus on the out-of-doors and
natural resources skills
• Recognition through merit badge
system
Use public speaking techniques
to deliver a speech
Objective 1.02
Types of speeches
• To inform: gives knowledge or
information to audiences
• To persuade: convinces people to
believe or do something
• To integrate: pep talks, welcome
speeches, introductions
Types of speeches
• Prepared: speech is written and
learned
• Extemporaneous: speech with little
or no preparation
Variables to consider with
speeches
• Purpose of the speech: Why are you
giving the speech?
• Audience: What group is hearing the
speech?
• Occasion: What is the event?
• Content: What is in the speech?
• Composition: How is the speech written
and organized?
Oral delivery variables
• Voice: pitch, quality, articulation,
pronunciation, force
• Stage presence: appearance, poise,
attitude, confidence, ease before
audience, personality, posture
Oral delivery variables
• Power of expression: fluency, sincerity,
emphasis, directness, communicative ability,
conveyance of thought and meaning
• Response to questions: accurate, ability to
think quickly
• General effect: interesting, understandable,
convincing, pleasing, holds attention
Delivering a Speech: Outline
• Introduction is the first part of the
speech
–Used to create interest and get the
audience’s attention
–Sets the stage for the speech
Delivering a Speech: Outline
• Body of the speech
–Contains most of the content
–Largest content and longest part of a
speech
Delivering a Speech: Outline
• Conclusion brings the speech focus
back to the audience before closing
–Sum up the speech
–Repeat the major points
Application: Give a speech
• Apply the information learned including types of
speeches and variables to consider especially the
audience and the occasion.
• Topics chosen for a speech should be of interest to
the audience where the speech will be given
• A good speech takes into consideration the needs
of the audience and the reason the speech should
be important to the audience