The Clinton River flowing into Dinosaur Hill Nature Preserve, Rochester Hills, MI, photo by Donald M. Schwartz

Background

Better Ways⁷ explore some of the history of leadership training^. "Back in the 1930's social scientists began to examine leadership. Through these studies, it was determined that leadership is something people do, and therefore the premise was developed that it is possibly something that people can learn to do."  Excerpted from the Troop Leader Development Staff Guide, Boy Scouts of America, 1974. 

Better Ways⁸ Explore some research on leadership training as it applies to community leadership.  Planners web has four research articles available for download  which examine why there may be a lack of leadership training amongst many community leaders.  Collectively, the articles show how leadership can be developed in urban and rural communities, and the impending benefits of such skill developments.

Getting Started

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As Road Toward Self-Improvement

Better Ways¹⁰  Read the Boy Scouts Pine Tree Web article on leadership.  Adapted from the Patrol and Troop Leadership book, the article puts forth a simple straightforward explanation of the basics of leadership.

Better Ways¹¹ Check out various community leadership programs and other topical links, listed at leadership-resource.com,  and also check out the resources at http://www.communityleadership.org/, and the leadership toolbox.

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