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A Healthier Young Life in Lake Travis - Coggle Diagram
A Healthier Young Life in Lake Travis
Opportunities for growth
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Be less afraid of failure as a team! Don't be so rigid!
Communicate to team members that they have freedom to try and fail
Create an environment of freedom for leaders
Be part of what we ask volunteers to do - don't lose sight of the students (Patnaik)
As a leader, step outside my own shoes and walk in my team's -- empathy for college volunteers (Patnaik)
Success is about developing a deep intuitive understanding of one another and human nature
Experience their difficulties myself to better understand where they are coming from with their frustrations with how much they are asked to do.
Be like Google - had their designers live as users for weeks to understand their emotions and pain points themselves (Patnaik)
Don't project my own assumptions onto user needs (Patnaik)
Be more transparent with team members - midwest company (Patnaik)
Barriers to healthy ministry
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Killing creativity with a "business as usual approach"
Break out of usual structure of what we've always done for club
"Nobody wants to run a business based on feeling, intuition, and inspiration, but an overreliance on the rational and analytical can be just as dangerous" (Brown).
Consistency is good, but break the mold sometimes!
Answering the wrong questions
Pay attention to what students need or else we are missing the whole point!
Must engage with the community directly to understand their challenges and aspirations better
Ask students what they need
Understanding needs intimate engagement (Patnaik)
Don't be like Kodak - listen to what the culture is doing and make changes as I go.
Mental health challenges
Rising rates of depression and anxiety cause less engagement
Need to know how to empathize and step into the worlds of these kids who are experiencing these kinds of mental health challenges
Volunteer difficulties
Not being able to retain volunteers for a long time
Overworking the volunteers we do have
Unhealthy team dynamics
Personal and leadership development
Personal experience effects the way we innovate !
Remember my personal experience when getting to know the Lord
Be vulnerable with self and others
Invest in personal health while doing ministry
Find a counselor - outside of the mission
Gain understanding of personal pain points and move forward well
Don't get burnt out on work -- practice sustainable ministry
Team culture :silhouettes:
Spend time with leaders and allow them to share their thoughts and feelings honestly
Cultivate optimism: Don't let our leaders fall into the clenches of pessimism!
Listen more than speak
Learn the balance between being a staff person and a friend
Teach them how to treat one another with empathy! Encourage a new type of team culture!
Work together - "all of us are smarter than any of us"
However, a large team is more for the implementation phase and the inspiration phase is normally better with a smaller team who is more focused on establishing the framework.
Stop allowing only the most experience members of the college team to offer insight, but look for fresh perspectives
"Think with your hands" - don't just speak Young Life, but start
doing
it! - like children at play, creativity runs wild!
Need an underlying culture of innovation amongst the team
Have more idea sessions in team meetings, rather than simply sharing the schedule for the coming week's events.
Designing for the future of the industry
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Keep looking at the needs of Gen Z students, and "convert need into demand" (Brown)
Listen to the cultural sensitivity that students are experiencing in the landscape of the world today (Patnaik)
Be unwilling to accept the status quo, but keep looking deeper into the lives of students
Don't stop asking questions and reiterating approaches
See relationship between people and the YL experience, and thus look deeper into the relationships between people and people
People remember not what was said but how they felt when you said it - use this in club talks (Patnaik)
Make students feel really
*seen
Provide an experience that feels safe for new students
Step into the digital world of students
Social media leverage on various platforms
Engage with students in their world
Cultural relevance as a priority
Stakeholder involvement
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Build genuine relationships with stakeholders
Find committee members who are on my team and allow them to speak life into the work we do
Be transparent with committee members to help build empathy with me as their staff person
Listen to and sift through committee perspectives and opinions
Community partnerships
Engage with local organizations, churches, and nonprofits to build health and community understanding
Develop events that cater to teens in various cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds, despite being the minority in LT
Become a pro at vision casting and helping others understand the mission of YL
Let Wyldlife leaders experience an "insider approach"
Plan more meetings to let them feel like they have more involvement
Make leaders feel needed, not just a cog in the machine
Check in more often - how are they doing?
Service and process
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Giving opportunities for growth and experimentation - be willing to fail (fear of failure helps nobody)
"Fail early to succeed sooner" (Brown)
A successful prototype is not a flawless prototype, but one that teaches us something
"For an idea to become an experience, it must be implemented with the same care in which it is conceived" (Brown)
Making ideas tangible quickly - "The faster we make our ideas tangible, the sooner we will be able to evaluate them, refine them, and zero in on the best solutions" (Brown).
"Prototyping slows us down to speed us up" (Brown)
Watch how users interact with prototypes, catching pain points quickly (Patnaik)
try out a club game with leaders beforehand - bring supplies and give it a go
Making observation a priority
If we
know
students, we will do a better job seeing to their needs
Be open to new ideas based on observation - don't be afraid to go against the grain of tradition
"Empathy is the mental habit that moves us beyond thinking of people as laboratory rats or standard deviations" (Brown)
Revolutionary changes are discovered through intimacy and understanding of students (Patnaik)