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New chapters include "Leading With Community Service", with plenty of ideas about service projects; "Avoiding Burnout," to help you maintain a balance in your life; "Creating a Sense of Community" with many concepts of community building; and "Improving Your Campus Elections." Plus, a complete update of the chapter "Embracing Technology" with lots of great information about Del's leadership hacks.
But Truly Leading goes beyond the basics, and addresses those skills that more advanced leaders need. "How to Inspire Others," "Being a Better Leader," "The Power of Ceremony" and "More Effective Meetings" are aimed at lifting an emerging leader into greater success.
Suggs also includes chapters on some very important foundational needs, such as creating a mission statement and some advanced concepts in recruitment. Organizational training needs are addressed in chapters covering both planning and training retreats, along with presenting a full-blown campus leadership conference.
Truly Leading: Lessons in Leadership is chock full of leadership tips, suggestions, and guidance. It is brisk reading, written in a casual style that reflects the author's personal experiences as a life-long leaders. The foreword was written by Dennis Haskins, perhaps best known as "Mr. Belding" on the hit TV series Saved By the Bell.
"The perfect book for college student leaders, " says Jonathan Sprinkles, former "National Campus Speaker of the Year."
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Del Suggs, M.S. Ed., is one of the most widely-respected presenters in the college market. In fact, "Campus Activities" magazine has named Del one of the Five Top Artists of the past twenty-five years! The school members of the Association for the Promotion of Campus Activities voted Del a finalist for "Best Campus Speaker 2015", an honor he was awarded in 2010. "Campus Activities" magazine "Readers' Poll" has voted him a finalist for "Speaker of the Year 2016." And, according to the Artist Report Cards submitted by campuses to "Campus Activities" magazine, Del is the Highest Rated Speaker in the field.
Del has presented his programs in Leadership Development and Student Activities Training at campuses from Seattle to Ft. Lauderdale, from Hartford to Laredo, and most points in between.
Del received his Master's degree in Instructional Design and Development from Florida State University, and studied with Dr. Robert Gagne and Dr. Leslie Briggs, two of the most widely respected scholars in educational psychology and peers of Dr. B. F. Skinner. He received a Bachelor's degree cum laude in History and Political Science from FSU.
A lifelong volunteer, Del currently serving as Chairman of Florida's Big Bend Scenic Byway, named by USA Today as the most scenic drive in Florida. He is past president of the Tallahassee Museum of History and Natural Science, ranked one of the top ten museums in Florida. He received the "Museum Service Award for Outstanding Trustee" from the Florida Association of Museums. He has served two terms on the board of directors of the National Association for Campus Activities (NACA), the Florida Flambeau Foundation, Inc., and the Musicians Association of Tallahassee. He's even been named "Volunteer of the Year" by WFSU-FM, the NPR affiliate in his home town. Del is also a Voting Member of The National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences (The Grammy Awards).
Del has the perfect combination of skills and experience for Leadership Development: He has spent much of his career as an entertainer; he has the academic credentials of a professor; and he has a lifetime of experience as a leader of national, regional, and local organizations. After publishing nearly 80 journal articles, his new book Truly Leading: Lessons in Leadership has reaffirmed his position as one the most widely-read authors in the field. Del Suggs is the speaker you have been seeking to teach your students how to lead themselves and their organizations.
