The Leading Deacon | Page 7

Leaders that  MODEL THE WAY CLARIFY VALUES by finding your voice and affirming shared ideals. SET THE EXAMPLE by aligning actions and shared values! THINGS TO REMEMBER... Leaders must model the values and behaviors they wish to promote. Credibility is the foundation of leadership. People will not believe the message unless they believe the messenger. You must act in accordance with how you wish those you lead to act. You must not force ideas or opinions on others, rather create standards of excellence and set an example for others to follow. From "The Student Leadership Challenge: Five Practices for Exemplary Leaders" James M.Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner  04 deadline environment means that copy editing often takes the form of deleting everything past an arbitrary point in the story corresponding to the dictates of available space on a page. Therefore, newspaper reporters are trained to write in inverted pyramid style, with all the most important information in the first paragraph or two. If the less vital details are pushed towards the end of the story, then the potentially destructive impact of draconian copy editing will be minimized. A news article can include accounts of eyewitnesses to the happening event. It can contain photographs, accounts, statistics, graphs, recollections, interviews, polls, debates on the topic, etc.  Quoted references can also be helpful. References to people can also be made through the written  NOMADIC | 24