Jiayi

Leadership Support Team Intern Work Plan
Objectives 1. Develop strategies to effectively identify and promote leadership qualities of in-coming PERC volunteers 2. Look for structures/tools to engage new volunteers towards  [place them in leadership positions ASAP] 3. Contribute to organizational understanding about leadership engagement Desired Outcomes 1. New volunteers actively participate in individual and collective leadership processes. 2. New volunteers actively contribute to personal growth areas and PERC project areas. Long Term Impacts Engaging and retaining long term volunteers who are empowered to make extensive contributions to PERC and grassroots environmental justice activism.

Work Plan Activities
1. Define role, responsibility, tasks 2. Put together work plan from role definition, responsibility Categorical synergy and overlap: Jiayi writes some stuff explaining how the sections feed off each other etc.

Understanding PERC
- Understand PERC values - Map out areas of integration between PERC values and strategies of leadership engagement Tasks:

Understanding PERC values

 * Locating/gathering documentation
 * orientation binder/slideshows
 * phpWiki, mediaWiki, other PERCweb content
 * written material around PERC office
 * Documenting documentation
 * Sourced bibliography for PERC (leadership) values
 * Compiling new documentation
 * pulling together previously implicit values (if any) for explicit documentation

Integration between values and activities

 * Locating/gathering documentation
 * orientation binder/slideshows
 * phpWiki, mediaWiki, other PERCweb content
 * Highlighting areas of opportunity for leadership development
 * based on activities, roles, implicit models of empowerment

Understanding the Volunteer
- Establish sought after characteristics, skills, and attitudes - Understand volunteers� potential blocks for leadership - Devise intentional strategies for coping and responding to blocks Tasks:

Volunteer profile

 * Best practices of volunteer/leadership mapping
 * already established PERC frameworks (KVETC, Contextual/Situational etc)
 * other models
 * Construct profile for incoming volunteers in leadership positions
 * match up interests / abilities / time constraints

Understanding blocks to engagement/participation

 * Literature survey & documentation
 * Jiayi explains in more detail here
 * Identifying PERC needs
 * Jiayi explains in more detail here

Strategies for coping and response

 * Best Practices survey & documentation
 * PERC resources (from Understanding PERC)
 * PERC structures (from Understanding PERC)
 * other models
 * Matching up for PERC�s needs
 * use resources from Understanding PERC
 * develop structures for brainstorming
 * Steps towards implementation
 * identifying stakeholders, barriers, attitudes, activities, timelines required
 * make action plans for ways of adaptation and adoption

Understanding Leadership Engagement
- Identify formalized and informal processes needed for leadership engagement - Understand various stakeholders to the leadership process at PERC and how ownership of the process occurs according to PERC values - Implement engagement for new volunteers leaders Tasks:

Identifying formalized and informal processes

 * Best practices survey
 * PERC resources (from Understanding PERC)
 * other models

Understanding stakeholders, how ownership of processes occurs

 * Identifying and engaging
 * use resources from Understanding PERC
 * value-sharing

Implementing engagement

 * Begin building leadership support toolbox
 * establishing key PERC leadership actions and tools (from KVETCing to doing)
 * Action plans for adaptation/adoption
 * construction
 * documentation
 * normalizing (think: accesibility/presence)
 * Engaging existing key stakeholders in the their action plan processes
 * identifying formalized and informal processes
 * setting timelines, key agents of engaging the engagers

Feedback
- Develop feedback methodology, action plans, tasks (this section is recursive � see Feedback)

Transition/Turnover
- Development turnover/transition methodology, action plans, tasks (this section is also recursive � see Transition/Turnover)

Work Plan Time Lines
Walk Back Week 1: July 8 - 11 Acclimatization to roles/tasks - Understanding PERC - Develop feedback and transition/turnover methodology, action plans Week 2: July 14 - 18 Leadership strategies - Volunteer Profile - Understanding Blocks - Strategies for Coping and Response (- steps towards implementation) - Understanding Leadership (- implementing engagement) Week 3: July 21 - 25 Implementation - Steps towards implementation (strategies for coping and responses) - Implementing Engagement - Feedback Week 4: July 28 - August 1 Transition - Transition/Turnover

WeekPlan
Wednesday 07/09 Finish work plan Documentation of work plan on wiki Work through orientation/PERCweb material (for leadership + activities) PERCweb, written material Thursday 07/10 Dentist appointment � arrival at 1:30? 2? PM Sourced bibliography Integration between values/activities Meet Amber (opportunity for implicit value discussion) Potluck/Workshop Friday 07/11 Dentist appointment � arrival at 1:30 PM Documenting implicit values Continue integration between values/activities Highlight areas of opportunity Feedback/transition mechanism 'Thursday 07/24 send email to rachel finish volunteer profile conclusions/framework from profile blocks from participation framework for PERC response Friday 07/25 stakeholders+what to do with this information best practices PERC constraints + vol constraints Saturday 07/26 address (lack of) LST meeting productivity discussion Monday 07/28 finish response framework beginning examples start rubric Tuesday 07/29 finish rubric opportunities map Wednesday 07/30 finish opportunities map finish PLDP/rubric/content heavy wiki pages needed for LST Thursday 07/31 write linkages, explanations on pages rubric for benjapon LST meeting: - be clear about purpose - detail how this (meeting content) came about - concrete list of things - why relevant, how - where to go from here Friday 08/01 fill out prescriptivist polly and tools with more best practices document everything Saturday 08/02 finish documenting stuff (from home, is the presumption)

*SPIFFIFICATION BREAK*
Jiayi describes SPIFFIFICATION BREAK

Please refer to Leadership Support Team Intern for further content.