Revision notes.

Try this with Outdoor Leadership

1. Close your notes and write the main idea in two sentences from memory.
2. Reopen the source and correct the first mistake or omission you find.
3. Add one example and one question to test whether you can apply the idea.

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Topics in the resource inventory

• The outdoor leader's role and the leadership continuum: autocratic, democratic and abdicratic styles
• Conditional Outdoor Leadership Theory (COLT): task and relationship orientation under favourable and unfavourable conditions
• Situational leadership (readiness and directive/supportive behaviour) and Fiedler's contingency model
• Transactional versus transformational leadership, with servant and feminist leadership as alternatives
• Writing Section A: applying and comparing two theories in a scenario without 'solving' it
• Attributes of effective leaders, core competencies, sources of power and hard, soft and meta skills
• Group- and task-oriented leadership: SMART goals, group versus individual goals and the leader's role
• Equity issues in outdoor leadership: equity versus equality and inclusive strategies
• Decision-making models (rational, DECIDE, naturalistic, creative) and experience-based judgement
• Facilitating reflection: why leaders use it and how journals, dyads, solos and group debriefs work
• Risk management: hazards, causal factors, real/perceived/absolute risk and risk analysis plans
• Preventing and managing emergencies: GO PREPARE, AAAS, off-campus procedures and adaptive leadership
• Individual, group and task needs: applying Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs on an outdoor trip
• Tuckman's stages of group formation and leader techniques for each stage
• The five conflict-resolution techniques: choosing appropriate and less appropriate strategies
• Communication channels, one-way and two-way communication, noise, overload, facilitation and listening
• Values for nature, the values–attitudes–beliefs link and anthropocentric, biocentric and ecocentric worldviews
• Sense of place and space, Tasmanian Aboriginal connection to Country and changing interactions over time
• Peter Martin's Signposts to Nature, technology, and how leaders design activities for nature connection
• Tasmanian wilderness issues, stakeholders and management strategies — and writing the Section D essay