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This curriculum kit is intended to provide you with a set of activities that you can use within your own leadership development program.  Using various activities from all of the four main modules can result in a full program of your own design, or individual activities can be used alone.  How you use the activities is up to you. 

The activities are based on a set of skills defined by a team of leadership trainers from the University of Wisconsin Extension Quad Counties (Kenosha, Milwaukee, Racine and Waukesha), encompassing both Youth Development and Neighborhood Programming.  Activities were developed to be used with a wide range of groups, from junior high school through adult professional, with all levels of leadership experience. 

For more information about this resource please read the following documents:

How to Use Recipe for Leadership

Recipe for Leadership Table of Contents

The Recipe for Leadership Team has also developed a pre-program survey that can be used as a tool to measure the needs of your group.

Leadership Survey

Listening

Active Listening
How To Listen Worksheet
How To Listen
Memory Test

Listening Between the Lines
I Think This is What You Meant Worksheet
I think this is what you meant
Hearing Hurdles

Networking

Creating Positive first Impressions
First Things First
Preparation Counts Worksheet
Preparation Counts

What and Who You Know
Mapping Personal Assets Worksheet
Mapping personal assets
Who Do You Know handout
Who do you know

Speaking

Holding Individual and Small Group Conversations
One on One Handout
One on One
Lets broaden the group

Making Introductions
May I Introduce..
Our Speaker Is Worksheet
Our Speaker Is

Phone Calls
Phone Etiquette Worksheet
Phone Etiquette

Presenting to a Group
Public Speaking Worksheet
Public speaking
Making your case

Writing

Correspondence
Thank you notes
Business letters Worksheet
Business letters

Marketing
How to Make a Flyer
Making a flyer Worksheet
For the press Handout 2
For The Press Handout
For the press

Meeting Notes and Agendas
How to take meeting notes
Developing An Agenda Worksheet
Developing an agenda

Conflict Resolution

Cooperative Power
Respecting Differences handout
Respecting Differences
Cooperative Process handout
Cooperative Process

Mapping the Conflict
Nature of conflict
Coping with Conflict worksheet 2
Coping with Conflict worksheet
Coping With Conflict

Mediation and Negotiation
Ground Rules for Fighting Fair Handout
Ground Rules for Fighting Fair
Strategies for win-win resolutions handout
Strategies for win-win resolutions

Engaging and Empowering Others

Acknowledging the Team
Appreciation matters
Incentives and rewards

Delegating
What is Delegation
Keeping Track Worksheet
Keeping Track

Motivating
A role for everyone
Making room for other leaders

Ground Rules

Avoiding Stereotypes and Prejudices
What is a stereotype worksheet 1
What is a stereotype worksheet 2
What is a stereotype
Pride and Prejudice

Celebrating Diversity and Cultural Awareness
Everyone has a culture Handout
Everyone has a culture
Cultural Leadership handout
Cultural Leadership

Minding your Manners
Minding your manners
Formal dinner protocol worksheet
Formal dinner protocol

Group Decision Making

Building Consensus
Honoring all voices
Agreeing to disagree
Agreeing to disagree handout

Hosting Meetings and Open Forums
How To Hold a Meeting Handout
How to hold a meeting
Parliamentary procedure
Parliamentary Pro Quiz answer key
ParlimentaryPro Handling a Motion
ParlimentaryProQuiz - What do you know about parli pro

Team Building

Becoming a Team
Scavenger Hunt Worksheet
Scavenger Hunt
Flip the blanket
Helium Hoop

Breaking the Ice
What's in a name
Fortune cookie icebreaker quotes
Fortune cookie icebreaker

Building Trust
Wind in the Willows
Minefield

Identifying Types of Teams
Team Types Worksheet
Team Types
Team Leadership Strategies Worksheet
Team Leadership Strategies

Flexibility and Adaptability

Seeing Leaders as Catalysts of Change
Getting comfortable with change
Change from within worksheet
Change from within

Thinking on your Feet
That wasn't the plan Worksheet
That wasn't the plan

Personal Vision and Goals

Determining Motivation
Why are you here
Sharing Your Motivation Worksheet
Sharing your motivation

Establishing Goals and Objectives
How to establish a goal
Personal Goals and Vision
Sharing your leadership plan

Stress Management

Establishing Boundaries
Where is the heart
Not here not now

Managing Your Emotions
Calm In The Storm Worksheet
Calm in the storm
Ok to say no Worksheet
Ok to say no

Time Management

Personal Scheduling and Planning
Keep track of your time
Personal planning

Planning is Proactive
Project planning worksheet 2
Project planning Worksheet
Project planning
Basics of strategic planning

Prioritizing Tasks
Time wasters
Life is a jar of golf balls story
Life is a jar of golf balls

Principles, Ethics and Values for Leadership

Defining a Principled Leader
What are principles and values worksheet
What are principles and values
Principle based decisions

Exploring Real-world Ethics and Values
From the headlines
Personal Agenda Greater Good Worksheet
Personal Agendas or the Greater Good

Understanding Leadership

Defining Leadership
Leaders that You Know Handout
Leaders that you know
First you lead yourself
Organizer vs. leader

Determining Leadership Styles and Situations
Leadership Styles Worksheet 2
Leadership Styles
Leadership Situations Worksheet
Leadership Situations

Distinguishing Between Born Vs. Created

I am a leader because
Learning to lead
Identifying Future Leaders Worksheet
Identifying future leaders

 

Acknowledgements

This project was supported through funding from the Quad Counties University of Wisconsin Extension System.  June, 2006.

Advisory Team:

Project Team Leaders:
John de Montmollin, Youth and Family Educator, Kenosha County UW-Extension
Jennifer Jones, Neighborhood Programming Coordinator, Waukesha County UW-Extension

Project Coaches:             
Tom Riese, Director, Racine County UW-Extension
Tedi Winnett, Director, Kenosha County UW-Extension and Team Leader, Quad Counties UW-Extension

Team Members:              
Matthew Armbrust, AmeriCorps *VISTA, Milwaukee County UW-Extension
Brent Betters, AmeriCorps *VISTA, Kenosha County UW-Extension
Alissa Bohman, AmeriCorps *VISTA Leader
Logan Booth, AmeriCorps *VISTA, Kenosha County UW-Extension
Demetrius Brown, 4-H Youth Development Educator, Milwaukee County UW-Extension
Andrea Grant, AmeriCorps *VISTA, Kenosha County UW-Extension
Bethany Kitzrow, 4-H Program Assistant, Kenosha County UW-Extension
Rory Klick, Leadership Curriculum Project Coordinator, Quad Counties UW-Extension
Ann Voge, 4-H Youth Development Faculty Assistant, Racine County UW-Extension

Curriculum Production:

Project Coordinator and Primary Author:  Rory Klick
Contributing Author/Editor: Logan Booth
Contributing Authors: Brent Betters and Andrea Grant
Project Oversightand Graphics:  John de Montmollin
Formatting and Word Processing: Donna Zarovy, Support Staff, Kenosha County UW-Extension