FULFILL YOUR DESTINY:

FROM PREDICTIONS TO
PLANS
19 January 2011
LITERACY HOOK UP
Reflect on expectations
Expectations of Service
In September 2010, you predicted
that during your year of service,
you will:
 Get involved:
 In new areas of the community,
 Demand work (in a Christian way),
 Have a strong commitment to
organization’s mission
 Gain professional development:
 Communication,
 Program development,
 Public education & non-profit
sectors
 See outcomes:
 Participant improvement,
 Catch “gap” or struggling students,
 Dedication & determination (from
self & participant)
 Experience/create community &
personal growth:
 Be challenged, great opportunity
 Bumpy but fun, nervous at
beginning but it will get easier
 Experience support
 Increase confidence & self esteem
Literacy Hook Up

Get in two  4 minutes for each question:

circles, one
inside other
 What is one wildly successful experience
you’ve had this year?
 Which actor/actress would play you in a
movie of your life?
 What is the most useful thing you’ve learned
so far this year?
 Have any of your personal beliefs been
challenged or changed?
 How has service impacted your plans for the
future?
CAPACITY BUILDING: DESTINY
Capacity Building Deadline
 By January 31st, please compile in one document
named CapacityBuilding_FirstnameLastName & email
the following:
 Timeline with monthly benchmarks
 Discovery interview guide (with responses if complete).
 Dream & Design inquiry process
 Deliver plan for follow up & rewards
 Plan for public presentation in August 2011
 Use the templates available to see the minimum
requirements!
AI 4D CYCLE

Discovery
“What gives life?”
(the best of what is)

Affirmativ Dream
Deliver
“What might be?”
“What will be?” e Topic (imagine the
(how to empower) Choice future)

Design
“How can it be?”
(constructing the ideal)
DESTINY: What’s My
Motivation?
 ALL create an action plan.
 YOU motivate the completion.
 The delivery portion of the 4D process is
the simplest to explain and the hardest to
sustain!
 Should be either included in your Dream
& Design process or follow quickly after.
Participants who dreamed together are
asked to work together to make it a reality.
Create an Action Plan
 Blank implementation plan provided to help break
concrete design into:
 Group benchmarks & tasks
 Individual responsibilities, including leadership
 Real timelines
 Your role? Not just to complete some tasks, but to
follow up with other responsible parties at timelines
and REWARD, AFFIRM & APPRECIATE success.
 NEGOTIATE or REASSIGN necessary tasks.
Motivation: Carrot or Stick?
Social Capital
 Most organizational change happens through
LEVERAGE:
 Stick—policies, penalties, mandates
 Carrot—incentives, resources, funding
 As an AmeriCorps member, you have no stick!
What carrots do you have?
 INFLUENCE! Social bonds created through service
 NETWORK to connect to resources
Rewards: Internal & External

 Fun fact: women tend to respond more to

INTERNAL rewards (job satisfaction, pleasant
work environment) while men respond more to
EXTERNAL rewards (higher pay, public
recognition).

 How can you make it REWARDING for your

volunteers, co-workers, etc to DELIVER on the
tasks they sign up for?
Any Questions About Destiny?
TRAINING ACTION
COMMITTEES
From Expectations to Experience
Plan to Reward Yourself
 LET’S PRACTICE!
 Continuing our previous discussion on training, let’s
revisit our Aspiration Statements & list of training
topics to create an implementation plan.
 Step One: REVISIT our Aspiration Statements.
 Step Two: FORM action committees for each goal.
Brainstorm training topics & create monthly
benchmarks.
 Step Three: DIVIDE up responsibilities & create a to-
do list.
Aspiration Statements
 To be motivators: creating a dynamic classroom where
we can persist along with participants and other
volunteers
 Personal growth to develop social skills, knowledge of
broader community, cultural sensitivity & tolerance
 Broad knowledge of education to reach students where
they are
 Use Civic Reflection to read, talk & think together
about our life in community and the 4 human activities
that give life: giving, serving, associating & leading
THANK YOU!

Let’s reach
our goals
together!
Many thanks to…
 ASIA, Inc for hosting today.
 Appreciative Inquiry Handbook: For Leaders of Change, 2nd
ed., by David Cooperrider, et al.
 Photos by flickr users slopjop and
 Our generous funders:
 Ohio Community Service Council
 Corporation for National & Community Service
 The Literacy Cooperative of Greater Cleveland
 The Cleveland Foundation
 Key Bank Foundation
 Underwritten by Charter One Foundation