It’s come down that Sharon is retiring. Sharon represents both the academic and program side of things here in the state office. Many of the things she has done during her term as State Director has been to reconcile the two sides. I think one of the reasons why she asked me to come on at the state office is to support the programming side of 4-H. While the academics are awash with their own politics, program reps and program support staff are left with vague priorities and little program support.
Sharon asked me to focus on 4hOnline learn as much as I could to support program staff. It’s been 4 months of crash personal training and experimentation but I think I understand the system enough to help counties untangle any major issues that they encounter. Enrollapolluze went well, I do think that if given more time the support pieces we could have produced would have been more substantial. Already the handbook is in need of major revision with the many changes that are taking place. It’s on my to do list, right after golden clovers, National Conf, Record Book judging, and state field day.
I haven’t been able to start concentrating on support pieces for programming but I wanted to try and start that here with some thoughts. There is a series of support pieces I want to produce or get produced to maybe help staff members. Some of these ideas include;
Primary Leadership Development
- Helping Hands
- What Can I Do to Help
- What Needs to be Done
- My 4-H Club
- My 4-H Project
- Writing component
- Math Component
- Partnerships with older members
- Working together
- Working with parents
Beginning 4-H Project
- 4-H Culture
All Star Training
- Recruiting
- Retention
- Development
Hi 4-H Training
See All Star Training
Adult trainings
- Teen Leaders
- Junior Leader
- Self assessments
- Projects
- Skills
- Goals
There are some ideas that I want to put together to support the state program. They are vague semi-morphous thoughts that occur to me.
Some ideas for current programming;
Extending the State Leadership program – developing other projects or areas where teens can get involved with
National Conf. Delegation – developing a more engaged program for delegates
If anyone who is interested in working with me on any of these topics please let me know
it's easier to read what i've done by downloading the text file...
The 4-H Youth Development Program is in every county in
4hOnline is a fully integrated management system that brings together all levels of the 4-H experience. Whether it’s a member logging in to manage her record, a club leader printing mailing labels, or a county staff approving a member’s enrollment, 4hOnline brings the 4-H community together and keeps everyone involved.
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4hOnline is a fully integrated management system that brings together all levels of the 4-H experience. Whether it’s a member logging in to manage her record, a club leader printing mailing labels, or a county staff approving a member’s enrollment, 4hOnline brings the 4-H community together and keeps everyone involved.
To use this guide and to work with the program it’s important to learn some terms and concepts about the system. The following will help explain some of the functions of the 4hOnline system.
Email - Electronic mail, often abbreviated as email or e-mail, is a method of exchanging digital messages. To setup a profile and enroll in California 4-H YDP an email address is required. janedoe@hotmail.com or johndoe@gmail.com are examples of email addresses.
Login - A user can log in to a system to obtain access, and then log out when the access is no longer needed. To login to the 4hOnline program you will need your email address and your password.
Roles - There are four types of roles that users can login to the 4hOnline system. Each role has different grades of authority.
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Continue ReadingWorking on the manual. Here is the main opening. i thought it best to tackle the terms and maybe explain some functions before launching into how to. Please add terms you think that i might need to include...
4hOnline is a fully integrated management system that brings together all levels of the 4-H experience. Whether it’s a member logging in to manage her record, a club leader printing mailing labels, or a county staff approving a member’s enrollment, 4hOnline brings the 4-H community together and keeps everyone involved.
To use this guide and to work with the program it’s important to learn some terms and concepts about the system. The following will help explain some of the functions of the 4hOnline system.
Email
Login
Roles
Continue ReadingThere is a lot to cover here in this subject. The general animosity towards the program is deep and antagonistic. Sharon wants to make sure i work on this. i worry about how much i can change.
On my white board i have the following:
Process
Wants vs. Needs
Manual?
Handouts?
Video?
Use coordinators and delegate to regional nodes.
I will be on a phone conference with Jane Chin's group, Northern section, tomorrow. There are some heavy opinions in this group that have already voiced their opposition to the program and have pretty much refused to use it for the year and will only go paper.
i have asked what is it that is so bad about this program and really haven't recieved an answer. Yes it is new. Yes we are unfamiliar with it. The general resentment though is more fueled on time... i feel that most staff members resent learning or sacraficing time... when they have little of it to acclimate to this system.
I want to present a power point on change but how the mental aspect of it is resistance since we are creatures of habit. Opinions? or should i stick to just the program which is limited at best.
summary of the "change" power point
When change is first announced, what happens in people's heads? If you can see something of what they are thinking, then you are on the road to being able to address their early concerns.
Needs
The principles in Maslow's Hierarchy explains much. When something happens and we feel we might be threatened (which starts as anticipated threat), we revert to checking lower-level needs. Thus we ask questions such as:
