Lesson 3. Build Your Team

WHAT WILL I LEARN?
Service Goals & Activities
In this lesson, you will learn how to:

• Demonstrate the leadership qualities, values and behaviors you will need to complete your service-learning project
• Use the Community Involvement Growth Strategy (CIGS) Model to maximize use of your team’s resources.
• Form a Junior Executive Management (JEM) Team for your service-learning project.
• Demonstrate your understanding of the importance and value of teamwork as it relates to your mission and impact solution.

WHAT CAN I EARN?

Leadership Digital Badges
Are awarded when you can demonstrate your ability to:

• Community Ecosystem – Identify socio-economic conditions
• Conflict Resolution – De-escalate situations
• Culture – Balance direct and indirect influences to make decisions
• Family & Peer Network – Manage role family and peers play in decisions
• Leadership – Make decisions that create and implement impact solutions

JEM Team Digital Badges
Are awarded when you can demonstrate your ability to produce the following deliverables while serving on a Junior Executive Management Team:

• Communications & Distributions – brand management, communications and external relations
• Finance – financial stability of organization-wide policies
• General Management – short and long-term strategic growth plans and day-to-day executions of team activities
• Network Services – research market conditions
• Team Operations – select and assign team roles
• Workshops & Special Events – community team’s mission to stakeholders