Developing New Junior Leaders

Allen L. Ulrich, Ohio State University

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Junior leaders in 4-H need leadership education to be most effective. Ulrich describes a four-meeting seminar that has been adopted in several Ohio counties for first-year junior leaders. Topics such as: What Is Junior Leadership?, What Is Leadership?, Understanding and Teaching Younger Members, and Responsibilities in the Local Club are included in the series. Fourteen Ohio counties used the leadership education series in 1970 and reported an average increase of 11 percent in junior leader enrollment. Statewide increase was two percent in the same period.