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Leadership Development

Publications

About IFAS Leadership Development: Choices for Political Action at the Local Level (PDF)-Elizabeth B. Bolton, Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. First published: September 1986. Reviewed: January 1996

About IFAS Leadership Development: Defining Public Issues (PDF)-Elizabeth B. Bolton, Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. First published: September 1986. Reviewed: January 1996

About IFAS Leadership Development: Everyone is a Leader (PDF)-Elizabeth B. Bolton, Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. First published: September 1986. Reviewed: January 1996

About IFAS Leadership Development: Getting Involved in Public Affairs (PDF)-Elizabeth B. Bolton, Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. First published: September 1986. Reviewed: January 1996

About IFAS Leadership Development: Giving and Receiving Feedback (PDF)-Elizabeth B. Bolton, Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. First published: September 1986. Reviewed: January 1996

About IFAS Leadership Development The Most Important Jobs: The Group Leader and The Group Member (PDF)-Elizabeth B. Bolton, Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. First published: September 1986. Reviewed: January 1996

About IFAS Leadership Development: Have a Good Group (PDF)-Elizabeth B. Bolton, Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. First published: September 1986. Reviewed: January 1996

About IFAS Leadership Development: Leaders Can Communicate (PDF)-Elizabeth B. Bolton, Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. First published: September 1986. Reviewed: January 1996

About IFAS Leadership Development: Listening to Hear (PDF)-Elizabeth B. Bolton, Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. First published: September 1986. Reviewed: January 1996

About IFAS Leadership Development: Managing Conflict Creatively (PDF)-Elizabeth B. Bolton, Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. First published: September 1986. Reviewed: January 1996

About IFAS Leadership Development: Problem Solving in Groups (PDF)-Elizabeth B. Bolton, Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. First published: September 1986. Reviewed: January 1996

Agricultural Agencies Form Team to Boost Rural Development-Karen Meisenheimer, July 1, 1998, University of Florida

Civic Leadership for the Common Good: Leadership Development in Appalachian Kentucky-report by the Civic Leadership Working Team, Kentucky Appalachian Commission, June 1996, published by the Appalachian Center, University of Kentucky

Communication Process and Leadership-Adapted by Lionel J. Beaulieu, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, June 1992. This article is adapted with minor editorial changes from Leadership Development: An Iowa State Self-Study Course, by John L. Tait and John A. Wibe, with the assistance of J. Paul Yarborough, Iowa State University, Cooperative Extension Service
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Community Voices A Multi-State Leadership Development Project (North Carolina, Arkansas, Texas, Alabama)-Contact: Dr. Claudette Smith, School of Agriculture and Environmental and Allied Sciences, North Carolina State A&T University

Congratulations, You Are Elected-Deborah Harris, Mississippi State University Extension Service, Publication 1613, 1990

Designing a Rural Leadership Program and Curriculum (PDF)-Ronald J. Hustedde and Angie Woodward, University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service

Four Agricultural Agencies Team With IFAS To Work On Boosting Rural Development-University of Florida

The Great Change (PDF)-Adapted by Lionel J. Beaulieu, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, June 1992. It was adapted for use in Florida, with minor editorial changes from "Community Development: An Intensive Training Manual", and permission from the document originally created by the North Central Regional, Ames, Iowa, Center for Rural Development

Leadership in Alabama for the New Millennium-Conquering the Leadership Crisis in Alabama-Focus 2000 (Action Newsletter)-The Alabama Cooperative Extension System, Summer 2000

Leadership Development-Contact: Elizabeth Bolton, Department of Family, Youth, and Consumer Sciences, University of Florida

Leadership and Membership Styles (PDF)-Adapted by Lionel J. Beaulieu, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, June 1992. This section is adapted with minor changes from Leadership Is..., by Daryl K. Heasly, Community Affairs Series No. 3, The Pennsylvania State University, College of Agriculture Extension Service

Leadership for the New Millenium-An Abundance of Leaders (Action Newsletter)-The Alabama Cooperative Extension System, Fall 2000

Leadership: Sustaining Action on Community and Organizational Issues (RRD 164)
North Central Regional Center for Rural Development, 1993

Leadership: What Is It? Its Dimensions (PDF)-Adapted by Lionel J. Beaulieu, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, June 1992. It was adapted for use in Florida, with permission from a document originally created by Daryl J. Hobbs and Ronald C. Powers, Sociology Publication No. 1; Cooperative Extension Service, Iowa State University

Making a Change-Adapted by Lionel J. Beaulieu, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, June 1992. It was adapted with minor editorial changes from Paul A. Twilker and Kent Layden, Making A Change, Simulation Systems, Black Butte Ranch, Oregon

Making Meetings More Productive-Adapted by Lionel J. Beaulieu, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, June 1992
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Managing Conflict-Adapted by Lionel J. Beaulieu, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, June 1992. This section is adapted with minor editorial changes from Community Development: An Intensive Training Manual Ames, Iowa: North Central Regional Center for Rural Development, June 1978

Partners in Community Leadership: Youth and Adults Working Together for Better Communities (RRD 163)
North Central Regional Center for Rural Development, 1993

Program Guide (PDF)-Adapted by Lionel J. Beaulieu, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, June 1992. It was adapted for use in Florida, with permission, from a document originally created by Simon K. Gerber, Public Affairs Leadership Program - Program Guide; Cooperative Extension Service, Pennsylvania State University

Rural Colleges as Catalysts for Community Change: The RCCI Experience-published in the USDA journal Rural America, this article promotes community colleges as effective institutions in rural development efforts, including leadership development and facilitating regional dialogue on the region's future. MDC, Inc.

Ten Good Locations for Community Leaders on the Internet (PDF)-Chuck Willoughby, Extension Assistant; Mike D. Woods, Extension Economist; and Daniel Chaney, Social Sciences Librarian, Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service

Visions from the Heartlands, Spring 1999 (PDF)-a publication of the Heartland Center for Leadership Development

Visions from the Heartlands, Spring 2000 (PDF)-a publication of the Heartland Center for Leadership Development

Visions from the Heartlands, Summer 1999 (PDF)-a publication of the Heartland Center for Leadership Development

Visions from the Heartlands, Winter 1999 (PDF)-a publication of the Heartland Center for Leadership Development

Visions from the Heartlands, Winter 2000 (PDF)-a publication of the Heartland Center for Leadership Development

Related Websites

Community Leadership & Economic Development -CLED is a joint project of the Louisiana Cooperative Extension Service, Cajun Electric Power, Louisiana Association of Electric Cooperatives, Louisiana Parish Government Association and the Louisiana Public Facilities Authority.

Florida Natural Resources Leadership Institute-University of Florida

Heartland Center for Leadership Development

Leadership Contacts-National Rural Development Partnership (NRDP)

Natural Resources Leadership Institute-North Carolina State University

PHILIP MORRIS Agricultural Leadership Development Program-University of Kentucky Department of Agricultural Economics

Resolving Conflict Through Leadership-University of Kentucky Department of Agricultural Economics

Training Curricula

Building a Foundation for Community Leadership: Involving Youth in Community Development Projects-SRDC Series #199, Project Leaders: Glenn D. Israel, University of Florida, and Thomas W. Ilvento, University of Delaware; Graduate Assistant: Tonya Stringfellow, University of Florida

Building Institutional Capacity
MDC, Inc.

Community Choices: Public Policy Education Program-SRDC Series #214, Lionel J. Beaulieu, Southern Rural Development Center, and Kenneth Bolton Jr., Southeastern Louisiana University

Increased Access to Education
MDC, Inc.

Leadership Development and Civic Engagement
MDC, Inc.

Mapping the Assets of Your Community: A Key Component for Building Local Capacity-SRDC Series #227, June 2002

RCCI: Planting the Seeds of Change
MDC, Inc.

Conferences/Trainings

Coahoma County Community and Economic Development Summit
April 4-6, 2000
Tunica, Mississippi

Mississippi Leaders: Building Tomorrow … Today
November 19, 2001, Hattiesburg, Mississippi
November 28, 2001, Greenville, Mississippi
November 29, 2001, Meridian, Mississippi

Leading South: The Southern Leadership Summit
June 1-3, 2003
Biloxi, Mississippi

Smart Growth in the Rural South
May 13-14, 2003
Lexington, Kentucky

Sustainable Development: Building Quality Communities
October 10-12, 2000
Nashville, Tennessee


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