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Transactional and Transformational:
Two Basic Leadership Behaviors

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Prior Life Experiences Exercise 1:
*A World of Give-and-Take*
	As a young adult, you may already have opened your own checking or savings account. Or you’ve probably accompanied your parents when they have gone to a bank to make a deposit or withdraw money. You (or someone you know) may even do your banking online. All interactions with a bank typically involve some type of financial transaction. When you shop your interactions with a store or businesses often involve some type of business transaction. Stop for a moment and think in detail about what happens when each of the following transactions takes place. Jot down your ideas on a piece of scrap paper. (If you’re not completely certain, to ask a parent or another adult, or share your initial ideas to get his/her feedback and suggestions.)
	(1)	You receive your monthly allowance from your parents and want to deposit the money into your savings account.
	(2)	You use some of your monthly cash allowance to buy CDs, video games, and clothes from the local shopping mall.
	(3)	You need a new sleeping bag to go to 4-H camp this summer.

Jot down your ideas

Identify one or two similarities that all three transactions had in common. Think carefully about this. What basic aspects are involved in any financial or business transaction? After you’ve had time to read and review your response, to complete the following sentence:

“In my opinion, any transaction involves two basic things. The first is…, and the second is…”

Before you continue in this module, go to your Reflection Journal, enter today’s date, and record your ideas about the three transactions, as well as the sentence you’ve just completed.

Reflection Journal Entry

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Prior Life Experiences Exercise 2:
*From Butterflies to Rocks to Cartoons*
	You are probably familiar with the process of how a caterpillar becomes a butterfly or moth. To refresh your memory, do an Internet search on the term metamorphosis. Check out at least three references that result from your search and, after thinking about them, come up with your own definition of metamorphosis, using 20 words or less. What does the term mean to you?

Complete an Internet search on the term metamorphosis

On the linked print-out sheet, list your references and in 20 words or less, define metamorphosis.

Now, run another Internet search on the term metamorphic rock. Again, check out at least three references and come up with your own definition of metamorphic rock, using 20 words or less. What does the term mean to you?

Conduct an Internet search on the term metamorphic rock

On the linked print-out sheet, list your references and in 20 words or less, define metamorphic rock.

Finally, check your local TV listings (or do an Internet search) for a popular children’s’ cartoon series The Transformers. There are action figures by the same name, so you may find references to both the cartoon series and the toys. After investigating the series and/or toys come up with your own definition of a transformer using 20 words or less.

Conduct an Internet search on the Transformers

On the linked print-out sheet, list your references and in 20 words or less, define transformer.

Before you continue in this module, go to your Reflection Journal, enter today’s date, and record the definitions you developed for each of the three terms, metamorphosis, metamorphic rock, and transformer.

Reflection Journal Entry

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