creating and working within synergistic partnerships anna gail l. caunca gregory hamluk
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Creating and working within synergistic partnerships
Anna Gail L. CauncaGregory Hamluk
WHO ARE WE?
Objectives
• Examine some of the soft skills for working in synergistic partnerships with youth volunteers, field unit departments/staff/volunteers, regional groupings, and NHQ/National Youth Council
• Share best practices of youth volunteer-youth advisor partnerships
Objectives
• Gain skills to better manage your roles and time resources
• Develop ideas to create a self-development plan
Agenda
• Self-Awareness & Self-Management• Youth Volunteer Management• Partnership Management• Closing
What are the skillsof a Youth Advisor?
What are the top 3 areas where you need to develop your skills?
What resources do you have available to you to help you in these areas?
Personal Skill Development
Leaning In
Activity
Is your current relationship with your Youth volunteers 100% / 100%?
As a Youth Advisor, what does it take to really “lean in” to your partners:– Youth volunteers?– Other Field Unit Departments?– Other Chapters, Blood Regions, and
Stations?
Debrief
Level 1 – Self
Level 2 – Other
Level 3 – Global
Levels of Attention
Partner up with someone in the room who you do not know.
Spread out so that you have a bit of room between you and the next pair.
Decide who will be Person A and who will be Person B
Activity
What did you notice as you were doing the activity?
How easy was it to stay focused on the “other” across from you and not on Self?
How does this relate to partnering with– Youth Volunteers– Other Departments– Other Chapters, Blood Regions, and Stations
Debrief
Break
Youth Volunteer Management
Group Activity – 15 minutes• In small groups, identify what
your youth volunteer needs are: • What do they need to feel
ownership of their programs? • What needs do they have to feel
empowered? • Can you identify categories or
groups for these needs?
Youth Empowerment ModelJ. Ungerleider, A. DiBenedetto (1997)
• Emotional Nurturance• Intellectual Challenge• Shared Power
Directing vs. Partnering
What’s the difference?
How do we work within youth partnerships?
How can we foster an environment for shared leadership?
Youth Executive Board
• Pre-term and post-term analysis
• Self-reflection letters
• Being a “senior” youth leader
Collaborative Strategies• Develop meeting agendas, objectives,
strategic goals
• Hold a retreat
• Hold each other accountable
• Share information
• Understand your needs and their needs
• Learn to let go!
• Your PDP goals or youth volunteer goals?
Break
Partnership Management
Understanding the goals and needs
• Organizational level
• Regional Level
• Field Unit / Department level
Partnership Management
Organizational Level -- Gail's Priorities
• Bring Biomedical Services operations into compliance with the FDA
• Achieve financial stability
• Increase donations
• Revitalize our brand
• Overhaul IT
• Improve teamwork
Strategies
Case Discussions 1. Increase donations
2. Revitalize our brand
3. Improve teamwork
Increase donationsStrategies in partnering
• Marketing – Facebook, Twitter – Dance-a-thon, Bowling; using media/technology to stay in touch to promote fundraiser
• Department-to-Department – working with H&S – revenue generation for the program
• Garage Sale – Donations and proceeds; Youth collected and staffed; allocated dollars to Youth programs
• Specific Programs where Youth can fundraise for (e.g., Operation Warm the Homeless, etc.)
• Incorporate event oriented fundraisers with other forms of fundraising.
Revitalize the Brand - Increase visibility
Youth volunteers as brand champions:Using Social Media outletsGetting the story out of what we are doing and what Youth are doingProducts:– Make them “cool”– Flip-flops, t-shirts, items with “youth
appeal”Youth as internal champions with other audiences (groups they belong to already)
Improve Team Work
Improving Team Work(Interdepartmental)
Retreat with YouthEmail lists and ways to communicate so that the message gets to youth membersCourses and Teambuilding – opportunities to work togetherOpen communication, have an identify for the program, role clarification, lines of communications open; knowing what other departments needs areWorking closely with other departmentsYouth newsletter (with donation envelope)Crossmarketing with newsletters and with other departments
Improve Team Work
Diversifying volunteer pool
Knowledge of local communityRepresentative of larger communityLeverage their web and pockets of the communities that Youth are connected to
Regional / Field Unit LevelUnderstanding the needs of the region / other departments within your field unit
Field unit - Organizational plan- Field unit strategic plan Department- Resources (volunteer), infrastructure (policies) Program- Funding, marketing, space/location
Closing
Questions?
Contact Information
Anna Gail L. Caunca – [email protected]
Gregory Hamluk – [email protected]