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Library Resources - Special Collections - Jean Ford

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Executive TrainingLeadershipSelf-ImprovementWomen

LEADERSHIP SERIES

The Leadership Series pertains to building skills to organize and manage community groups; leadership principles; negotiating skills; public speaking; and public relations. This series is further subdivided as follows:

EXECUTIVE TRAINING
Topics include:

  • action strategies
  • assertiveness training
  • conflict resolution through negotiation
  • listening skills
  • problem/solution approach
  • productivity and quality of life
  • signals of power
  • speaking dynamics

Examples of items in the collection include:

  • seminar handouts, quizzes, and worksheets from Jean Ford Co. and Jean Ford Associates
  • strategic development worksheets
  • materials from the Coalition to Improve Management of State and Local Government
  • articles
  • clippings
  • Nevada Quality Management Report

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LEADERSHIP
Topics include:

  • conflict resolution
  • creativity
  • delegation
  • discussion leader training
  • goal setting
  • influence
  • learning styles
  • motivating
  • negotiation
  • networking
  • organizing for action
  • power
  • quality circles
  • risk taking
  • study circles
  • supervision
  • team building
  • time management
  • total quality management

Examples of items in the collection include:

  • Wharton Center for Applied Research workbook for managing a leadership change
  • Dispute Resolution newsletter
  • journal articles pertaining to leadership
  • pamphlets, guidelines, charts, exercises
  • self-evaluation materials
  • Public Management Institute information on organizing for action
  • Center for American Women in Politics information on public leadership
  • Center for Creative Leadership information on quality circles
  • Study Circles Resource Center information packet and newsletters


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SELF-IMPROVEMENT
Topics include:

  • communication skills
  • life work planning
  • marketing yourself for moving up
  • self-esteem
  • speaking out
  • stress-life balance
  • values

Examples of items in the collection include:

  • Jean Ford's notes and papers from seminars and courses she taught
  • Mid-Atlantic Center for Sex Equity gender gap communications booklet
  • checklists
  • self-appraisals
  • articles, pamphlets, exercises, news clippings
  • career stress bibliography


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WOMEN
Topics include:

  • economics of work
  • leadership strategies
  • Nevada leaders
  • power
  • public speaking
  • women as national leaders

Examples of items in the collection include:

  • articles, news clippings
  • historical summary of Nevada women leaders
  • seminar brochures and handouts
  • UNR Women in Public Leadership class materials
  • UNR Neighborhood Women Training class materials


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