As MN FCCLA selects a new youth leadership team for 2014-2015, we reflect on what it means to be in a leadership position. Having a title and taking on a leadership position is not necessaily the same thing as leading. In FCCLA, youth leaders learn new roles with a “safety net” of caring adults, structure and routines, policies and guidance as they develop programs, events and guide their peers. It is a laboratory of building future career skills, becoming “college and career ready” as they take on the roles in a career and technical student organization.
- Leadership is not being above people; it’s about being beside people and pushing them above.
- If you lead and nobody follows, are you leading?
- The biggest enemy is not the outside work, it’s your inside world.
- You can be right, but say it in the wrong way.
- Leadership takes being strong AND warm toward others.
- A leader should work as hard as anyone else in the group and be willing to do the least desirable tasks.
- Complaining is not leading.
- Encourage the heart is a trait of an examplary leader.
- Posts on social media give you a glimpse into a person’s thoughts and brain. Your leadership is showing.
- Attitude is everything.
