Chapter Leadership Guidebook

Guidebook Cover -- The cover page of the Guidebook previews content highlights.
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Guidebook Table of Contents -- This is a comprehensive outline of the Guidebook structure and content.
(8-page PDF file; About PDFs)
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Volunteer Leadership -- Section I contains essentials of governance responsibilities, effective boards, work groups, and volunteer-staff partnerships.
(23-page PDF file; About PDFs)
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Leadership Skills -- The continuation of Section I contains essentials of strategic thinking and planning, effective meetings, communications strategies, and handling "challenging" volunteers.
(17-page PDF file; About PDFs)
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Leadership Resources -- Section II contains samples, templates, articles, charts, and exercises to facilitate volunteer recognition, Board self-assessment, Board performance, strategic thinking and planning, effective meetings, and records retention.

Chapter Essentials (Members Only) -- Section III is an outline of suggestions for chapter information essential to your leaders, with URLs to obtain samples from chapter Web sites.
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AAFP Resource Material -- Section IV contains online resources; links for public relations, advocacy, and scheduling information; chapter online resources; and a link to the AAFP Directory of Resources for Chapters.
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External Resources -- Section V will lead you to answers, ideas, and best practices from other sources.
(2-page PDF file; About PDFs)
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