Leadership Goals: To strengthen your knowledge of program planning and evaluation methods and develop skills
to use those method effectively
Community Asset Mapping
Objectives:
Reflection Questions:
- Identify opportunities for youth involvement in your communities or organizations
- Create a common vision for and pride in your community or organization
Reflection Questions:
- What types of activities are most available for youth in your community?
- Were you surprised by what you found? Are there gaps?
- Overall, by what you see offered to youth, how much do you think the community values youth?
- Which community organizations or agencies seem to value your most? Which don't value youth much at all? Why do you think this is so?
- How can this research help you in your organization's or community's program planning?
Brainstormers
Objectives:
Reflection Questions:
- Gain an understanding of brainstorming techniques
- Develop skills to facilitate brainstorming sessions
Reflection Questions:
- When would you use brainstorming?
- How can brainstorming be inclusive when working with a group? Exclusive?
- What might be important to keep in mind if facilitating a brainstorming session?
- What might be important to keep in mind when participating in a brainstorming session as a brainstorm?
Puzzled Resources
Objectives:
Reflection Questions:
- Develop skills to better communicate with other organizations while in leadership positions
- Understand the importance of allocating resources when working with multiple organizations
Reflection Questions:
- What aspects of this game did you find difficult? Why?
- What ways did you find to communicate during meetings?
- How did you work together in your group to complete a puzzle? Other groups?
- What did you find yourself more concerned with, your group getting one puzzle together, or the overall initiative of all three puzzles being completed?
- How might you apply what you learned to communicating and working with other youth or organizations?
- What have you learned about allocating resources when in a leadership situation?
Team Task
Objectives:
-- Ask Task Master - "Who was the leader of the team?"
-- Ask Supporters - "Who was the leader of the team?"
2. Discuss the different qualities that the perceived leaders demonstrated
3. Ask each "role" to relate their expectations and the actuality of the others' roles?
4. Ask Task Master who they looked to for information
5. Ask each role what was most frustrating and what made them successful
6. Discuss the communication pattern. How did any "role" understand how to complete the task? How did any "role"
understand whether the team was succeeding or not?
7. How does this activity relate to group tasks you have worked on before?
- Gain an understanding of the importance of seeing the larger task at hand and the individual tasks assigned in accomplishing a project/task
- Experience barriers to communication and that those barriers can be overcome, but at the expense of efficiency and sometimes effectiveness.
- Develop an understanding that in different situations, leaders are expected to demonstrate different qualities including seeing the big picture.
- Survey the task and comment on its accuracy and completeness
-- Ask Task Master - "Who was the leader of the team?"
-- Ask Supporters - "Who was the leader of the team?"
2. Discuss the different qualities that the perceived leaders demonstrated
3. Ask each "role" to relate their expectations and the actuality of the others' roles?
4. Ask Task Master who they looked to for information
5. Ask each role what was most frustrating and what made them successful
6. Discuss the communication pattern. How did any "role" understand how to complete the task? How did any "role"
understand whether the team was succeeding or not?
7. How does this activity relate to group tasks you have worked on before?