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About this book
The Outdoor Leader offers guidance, mentorship, and a roadmap for educators, guides, volunteers, and all outdoor enthusiasts dedicated to fostering a vibrant community In The Outdoor Leader you'll learn how to:
- Evaluate good decisions
- Communicate effectively
- Create and champion a vision
- Develop organizational systems
- Understand the value of mistakes
- Lead change through a lens of diversity, equity, and inclusion
- Build trust and credibility
- Work through challenges
- Say yes to the adventure of personal growth
There is no one "right way" to lead--you don't have to be the fastest, strongest, or most experienced to be a great leader. What the best leaders possess is a deep commitment to the greater good.Drawing on her decades of experience as a national outdoor leader, Jeannette Stawski explores the elements of transformative leadership. Using real-life examples from the outdoors and every day, she focuses on the essentials: resilience, grit, integrity, tolerance for adversity, and highly developed listening and communication skills.Whether you spend time in city parks, on mountains, in rivers, or beyond, you know that nature is a powerful teacher. Stawski shares inspiring stories from a range of outdoor enthusiasts and professionals, including Elyse Rylander, Kenji Haroutunian, Joe Stone, Stacy Bare, Victoria Lopez-Herrera, and more, as well as key principles from the Cornell Outdoor Education program, co-directed by Karel Hilversum.
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Table of contents
- The Outdoor Leader
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction: Finding True North
- Chapter 1. Choosing to Lead
- Chapter 2. Self-responsibility and Lifelong Learning
- Chapter 3. Management and Systems
- Chapter 4. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
- Chapter 5. Resilience and Grit
- Chapter 6. Integrity
- Chapter 7. Tolerance for Adversity
- Chapter 8. Adventure or Ordeal?
- Chapter 9. Making good Decisions
- Chapter 10. Leading Change
- Chapter 11. An Audacious and Compelling Vision
- Chapter 12. Making Mistakes
- Chapter 13. Listening
- Chapter 14. Confident, Committed, and Courageous Communication
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix
- Selected Bibliography and Resources
- Index
- About the Author