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Someone asked me recently to explain the difference between "training" and "developing" leaders. I can do this better if I can also describing the difference between "teaching" and "manager of learning," because both utilize similar behaviors. ...
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"Effective Teaching" puts the focus on the wrong person. We area about learning, not teaching. That's why this competency is properly called "Manager for Learning." Learning places the focus on the candidate and what he or she is doing to engage in learning, not on the teacher who typically teaches in a linear fashion and controls what and how information is taught. ...
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During the beginning process of staff development, each phase is challenged to define its "vision, goals, and values." During the past weekend, I watched the three phases work very hard at defining what they termed their "vision, goals and objectives." We previously learned that a vision has specific specific characteristics. Is the vision you defined really a vision, or is it something else? ...
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The aims and values of White Stag are the basic, underlying foundation stones for the program. They circumscribe our beliefs and how we practice managing the learning of leadership.
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A vision in the mind of one man fifty years ago has led thousands of youth and adults to pursue a dream: that the skills of leadership can be defined and taught. So it might be a good time to reflect and ask, does the program work? Evaluating Real Results...
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Of the best rulers, The people only know that they exist; The next best they love and praise The next they fear; And the next they revile. When they do not command the people's faith, Some will lose faith in them, And then they resort to oaths! But...
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"Leadership can be defined as a set of competencies which can be learned. Some eighty aspects of knowledge, skills, and attitudes have been taken into account in our research which have been clustered into competencies. To sum it up. an understanding...
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A mature leader is teachable. Not only do they seek knowledge and inspiration from others, but they turn inward and upward to be lifted up by God. "Being a teachable leader is one who serves without question, and values others more highly than themselves...
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To become a leader, you must first submit. Identify your shortcomings and faults. Give up any notion that you are in charge. Acknowledge your debt to those who have taught you. Confess your sins and seek forgiveness. Give credit where credit is due. Find...
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Of everything we teach, the competency Manager of Learning is fundamental. Without it, little else has real meaning. A grasp of its basic concepts leads to an understanding of the entire White Stag program's operating thesis. Manager of Learning Concepts...
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Among the skills the National Boy Scouts of America used to include in its Junior Leader Training program was one called Effective Teaching. In the updated National Youth Leadership Training program, this has been re-christened Teaching EDGE™ (Explain...
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I've been exposed to many leadership concepts and models over the years, but have yet to see anything new under the sun that could not fit somewhere into the eleven competency model originally distilled by Bela Banathy in the early 1960s....
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