Leadership Skills & Character Building: Initiative, Grit & Perseverance (PDF)

Good social skills invariably lead to a certain level of accomplishment in modern-day life. However, having a great personality is not always enough. Without initiative, grit, and perseverance, real success can never be achieved. For this reason, it is important to be a self-starter who can see all goals through to the end, no matter what path you take in life. This book provides useful, authoritative, and important information, which will enable you to follow your dreams and goals with dedication, purposefulness, and persistence in all situations. Leadership Skills & Character Building is for you. Good leaders need to be good communicators and delegators. They must be determined, creative, responsible, respectful, and trustworthy. Each book will encourage, motivate, and educate the young reader so that they become a well-rounded, good leader and successful individual. Each title in this series includes color photos throughout, and back matter including: an index and further reading lists for books and internet resources. Key Icons appear throughout the books in this series in an effort to encourage library readers to build knowledge, gain awareness, explore possibilities and expand their viewpoints through our content rich non-fiction books. Key Icons in this series are as follows: Words to Understand are shown at the front of each chapter with definitions. These words are set in boldfaced type in that chapter, so that readers are able to reference back to the definitions—building their vocabulary and enhancing their reading comprehension. Sidebars are highlighted graphics with content rich material within that allows readers to build knowledge and broaden their perspectives by weaving together additional information to provide realistic and holistic perspectives. Educational Videos are offered in chapters through the use of a QR code, that, when scanned, takes the student to an online video showing a moment in history, a speech, or an instructional video. This gives the readers additional content to supplement the text. Text-Dependent Questions are placed at the end of each chapter. They challenge the reader's comprehension of the chapter they have just read, while sending the reader back to the text for more careful attention to the evidence presented there. Research Projects are provided at the end of each chapter as well and provide readers with suggestions for projects that encourage deeper research and analysis. And a Series Glossary of Key Terms is included in the back matter containing terminology used throughout the series. Words found here broaden the reader's knowledge and understanding of terms used in this field.