During the service year, you call on your members to take a prominent role in the community: Organizing and facilitating meetings, resolving conflicts, understanding all the stakeholders' perspectives, setting an example with attitude and action, following through on commitments, etc. Taken together, these skills amount to one thing: Leadership.

The training modules below can be used as stand-alone half-day training sessions or as part of a multi-day leadership training for members. You can also pass along these modules to your member leaders so that they can replicate these trainings for additional member and service site audiences.

Getting started:

Expectations and Agreements–Learn how to encourage a group to lay the foundation for their learning environment

Life Maps–Participants get to know one another through this activity in which they chart the path that led them into service

Balloon Castles–Participants learn about themselves as communicators, team members, and leaders through this activity

Leadership Compass–Participants learn how their personality preferences lend themselves to leadership styles.

Skill Building:

Facilitation–Participants learn a structure for facilitating team project planning meetings.

Visioning–Participants create vision statements for individual or team projects and learn the value of visioning for leaders and in project planning.

Project Planning–Participants engage in a structured process for inclusive team planning of service projects.

Asset-Based Community Development–Participants learn how they can serve as a convener of community members and a catalyst for change.

Interpersonal Leadership Skills:

Coaching–Participants learn approaches to coaching others in a learning environment.

Situational Leadership–Participants learn about themselves and others as they pass through various stages of enthusiasm and competence in a given situation.

Conflict management–Strategies for easing conflict in team settings.

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