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Monday, December 15, 2014
Tuesday 12/16/14 QOTD (15 word min)
"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life." Winston Churchill
Wednesday 12/17/14 QOTD (15 word min)
To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift" Steve Prefontaine
Thursday 12/18/14 Plans for Christmas Break
Share what your plans are for Christmas break. Traveling? Relatives coming? What do you plan to do during the time away from school!
Friday 12/19/14 What would you do with $100?
If you were given $100, what would you do with it? Where would you spend it? What would you do?
Monday, December 8, 2014
Monday 12/8/14 QOTD (15 word min.)
The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been. | Henry Kissinger
Tuesday 12/9/14 QOTD (15 word min.)
I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.' - Ali
Wednesday 12/10/14 Case and Point (50 word min.)
The Case of the Overbearing Leader
As the Director of Student Orientation, you are responsible for welcoming all 3,000 new students to your campus every fall . It's a pretty large undertaking, and would never be possible without the help of the Orientation Leadership Team . This team is made up of a Steering Committee of 15 students, and another 150 New Student Mentors who each oversee a small group of about 20 new students . Because you receive over 300 applicants every year for the Student Mentor position, you need to do two rounds of hiring . The first round is meant to trim the group to around 200 leaders; the second round finishes the process and gets you to the final 150 Mentors .
This year, Saja, the son of a close family friend, is applying to be a Mentor . After the first round of interviews, it becomes apparent to everyone on the Steering Committee that Saja is a bad fit for the job . He comes across as overly opinionated, slow to hear other people's ideas, and everyone has doubts that he would help to make new students feel welcome in the fall . His parents have always raised him to have an opinion and share it and his driven personality will serve him well when he becomes a lawyer . However, everyone agrees that he needs to become a bit more well-rounded before he's ready to serve as a mentor for new students, and they all agree that there are other leadership opportunities that could be a better fit for his personality and skill set .
They want to cut him after the first round of interviews, but you keep thinking about his parents . They're your close friends and you're already dreading the conversation with them about why he wasn't hired . That conversation will be much harder if you need to explain why he wasn't even good enough to make it to the second round of interviews . You've never had a solid line of 200 moving on and have let marginal candidates though to the second round in the past . It wouldn't be too difficult to let Saja go on to the next round of interviews before cutting him and telling him he needs another year to grow . However, none of the Steering Committee will agree with you, so it would need to be an executive decision that you ask them to accept .
> Would you let Saja move on to the second round of interviews?
Thursday 12/11/14 Morning Ag Clips (50 word min)
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Friday 12/12/14 (30 Second Speech)
Imagine that you were running for an office. You are trying to become the next Department Chair for the Nebraska Department of Agriculture. You have just walked in to an elevator with a very important in influential individual and you would like to get them "on your side" as you know that they will influence a lot of people when they go to vote for the position that you seek. You hardly know this person and don't know how well they really know you.
You have approximately 30 seconds to introduce yourself and convince this person to support you through the election. What would you say in 30 seconds?
Monday, December 1, 2014
Monday 12/1/14 QOTD (15 word min)
"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination." - Tommy Lasorda
Tuesday 12/2/14 QOTD (15 word min)
"You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want."-Zig Ziglar
Wednesday 12/3/14 BONUS POST! UP TO 10 POINTS BONUS!
Select a paragraph of the FFA Creed, copy and paste it into your response and then explain what that paragraph means in your own words. To gain all 10 bonus points, your post should be a MINIMUM of 50 words excluding the copied and pasted paragraph.
Thursday 12/4/14 QOTD (15 word min)
"The smallest package in the world is a person who's wrapped up in themselves." - Tim Elmore
Friday 12/5/14 Morning Ag Clips (50 Word Min)
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