Leadership Development

November 2009

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues. ~ Cicero

Blessed are those that can give without remembering and receive without forgetting. ~ Author Unknown

Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all. ~ William Faulkner

If you can’t be content with what you have received, be thankful for what you have escaped. ~ Author Unknown

The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest. ~ William Blake

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Additional Resources

Officer Resources

Phi Theta Kappa Officers’ Leadership Resource Center

The Officers’ Leadership Resource Center is designed for Phi Theta Kappa Regional and Chapter officers and launched in August 2008. New Leadership Resource Center articles are announced in the Officers’ Golden Key News Briefs, usually twice each month. These summaries, ideas, news items, and activities are written specifically for you to help stay on top of your challenges as a Phi Theta Kappa Leader. There are additional leadership resources on general leadership topics, such as Team Building and Conflict Management, in the Leadership Briefs section of Phi Theta Kappa’s website.

Phi Theta Kappa Leadership Development Studies: A Humanities Approach is offered for academic credit only at institutions which have a Certified Leadership Instructor. View the Directory of Participating Colleges and Universities to find out if your school has Phi Theta Kappa Certified Leadership Instructors and may offer Phi Theta Kappa Leadership Development Studies: A Humanities Approach.

This Summer we have an awesome non-credit opportunity for students who do not have access to Phi Theta Kappa’s Leadership Development Studies Program on their campuses!

We are launching a series of online leadership dialogues via Facebook, led by Phi Theta Kappa’s Dean of Leadership Development and other Certified Leadership Instructors. This is a perfect way to hone your leadership skills for your personal development and for Honors in Action projects. If you engage in dialogues for all 11 units, you will receive a certificate certifying your completion of this version of the Leadership Development Studies course. We will dialogue about the readings and films in a single unit each week between May 18, 2009 and August 7, 2009, except the week of June 29, 2009. Visit the Facebook Group “Study Group for Phi Theta Kappa Leadership Development Studies Certificate” and join before May 11 when the first reading assignments and dialogue questions will be posted.

We are even offering a 30 percent discount on purchases of our textbook, Phi Theta Kappa Leadership Development Studies: A Humanities Approach for participants in the Facebook Study Group.

Purchase the book online and enter the discount code LEADFB, or mention the discount LEADFB and item number ZM4 when calling Recognition Services at 800.946.9996, Monday through Friday, 8:30am – 5:00pm, CST.

Don’t forget — get your discounted book and join the Facebook Group by May 11!

Read the Leadership Development Studies Overview for an exploration of what Leadership Development Studies has to offer.

Learn more about the Phi Theta Kappa Leadership Development Studies in the course description and the discussion of the course units.

Questions or comments about items appearing in the Officers’ Leadership Resource Center may be directed to Monika Byrd, Dean of Leadership Development for Phi Theta Kappa’s Honors Program Department.

The latest article:

Three Planes of Influencing Action

Explore the topics below for further leadership insights and guidance:

Honors in Action Profiles
The following articles describe the work of real people who exemplify the Honors in Action approach in their lives, integrating scholarly research and learning with service and leadership and educating others as well as seeking others to work with them. Their lives illustrate the philosophy expressed by Theodore Roosevelt in 1912 that "Scholarship is of worth chiefly when it is productive, when the scholar not merely receives or acquires, but gives".

Mary Jo Tellin and Grassroots Honors in Action

Be sure to check out Phi Theta Kappa Leadership Briefs for articles on additional leadership topics!

Phi Theta Kappa's Honors Program Department will be thinking and writing this year about our 2008-2010 Honors Study Topic, The Paradox of Affluence: Choices, Challenges, and Consequences and Honors in Action, in our “OutThinking” blog. Susan Edwards, Dean of Academic Affairs and Honors Programs, Monika Byrd, Dean of Leadership Development, and Jennifer Stanford, Dean of Service Learning, along with guest writers, will be posting regularly to the blog and invite your comments and responses.

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Phi Theta Kappa Officers’ Leadership Resource Center

This Summer we have an awesome non-credit opportunity for students who do not have access to Phi Theta Kappa’s Leadership Development Studies Program on their campuses!

Don’t forget — get your discounted book and join the Facebook Group by May 11!

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