Transcript Developmental Stages

What can hinder a 4-H program from
reaching its full potential?
Leadership
Management
100s
Education
Numbers represent
the growth that
could occur:
 Members
 Volunteers
100
 Opportunities
 Program Impact
Service
50
Kim Reaman, 4-H Volunteer Development Specialist
University of Wyoming Cooperative Extension
NAE4-HA Conference, October 25, 2010, Phoenix AZ
4-H empowers youth to reach their full potential,
working and learning in partnership with caring adults.
Leadership
Are we helping or
hindering youth
from participating in
opportunities?
Management
Qualities
Talents
Skills
Characteristics
100s
Education
100
Service
50
Developmental Stages of the 4-H Program
How does this policy
/ rule help youth
participate in
opportunities to
learn and grow?
4-H empowers youth to reach their full potential,
working and learning in partnership with caring adults.
Leadership
Management
100s
Education
100
Service
50
4-H empowers youth to reach their full potential,
working and learning in partnership with caring adults.
Leadership
Management
100s
Education
100
Service
50
4-H empowers youth to reach their full potential,
working and learning in partnership with caring adults.
Leadership
Management
100s
Education
100
Service
50
4-H empowers youth to reach their full potential,
working and learning in partnership with caring adults.
Leadership
Management
100s
Education
100
Service
50
4-H empowers youth to reach their full potential,
working and learning in partnership with caring adults.
Leadership
How can
people in the
same stage
reinforce one
another?
Management
100s
Education
100
Service
50
How could
conflict be
created when
people are in
different stages
and what might
result?
Everyone can move through the developmental
stages and reach the same peak – what they
need from us to get there is different
Leadership
Management
Education
Service
Competence and Commitment
4 stages people usually go through when they are
learning to master something
Enthusiastic learner
low competence and high commitment
Disillusioned learner
low-some competence and low commitment
Capable but cautious performer
moderate to high competence and variable commitment
High achiever
high competence and high commitment
What people need to increase their
competence and build commitment
To increase competence:
To build commitment:
Set clear goals
Listen
Generate an action plan
Praise and encourage
Show how to do the goal/skill
Facilitate problem
solving
Clarify the role
Ask for their input
Provide timelines
Establish priorities
Monitor and evaluate work and
provide feedback
Provide rationale – how
their work contributes to
our mission
Our program will have the greatest impact when we
work to reach the highest developmental stages –
unlimited potential for learning and growth
Leadership
Management
Education
Service
Developed by Kim Reaman, 4-H Volunteer Development Specialist, University of Wyoming
Sources:
Blanchard, K. (2005). Self Leadership and the One Minute Manager. New York: Harper Collins
Original materials for Developmental Stages developed by Jim Rutledge (Revised 2006 and 2008)