Creating a Change Process to Re-Imagine Your Youth Community
1. URJ Youth Engagement Conference 2013
Alison Kur Executive Director of Jewish Living
Brett Lubarsky Youth Programs Coordinator & Social Media Manager
Hannah Richman Youth Educator
2. Please take the post-it notes and pen on your chair
and take a few moments to respond to this question:
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4. When you are making a change, how
do you know that change is happening?
Then the Israelites wept and said,
“If only we had meat to eat! We remember the fish
we used to eat free in Egypt, the cucumbers, the
melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic. Now
our gullets are shriveled. There’s nothing at all!
Nothing but this manna to look to!” Numbers 11:4-6
“Why have you brought God’s congregation into this
wilderness for us and our beasts to die there? Why
did you make us leave Egypt to bring us to this
wretched place, a place with no grain or figs or vines
or pomegranates? There’s not even water to drink!”
Numbers 20:4-5
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7. Why are we changing?
How do you build a shared sense
of urgency?
8. What are we changing to?
What’s our vision of where
we hope to go?
What will it look like when
we get there?
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10. Our Mission: To inspire and
nurture the human spirit –
one person, one cup and
one neighborhood at a time.
11. “To bring inspiration and
innovation to every athlete*
in the world.”
(*If you have a body, you are an athlete. –
Bill Bowerman (founder of Nike))
12. Dedication to the highest quality
of customer service, delivered
with a sense of warmth,
friendliness, individual pride
and company spirit.
13. Who will help make the change?
How will you do it?
How can you get others on board?
14. One
Example…
List those forces that are
DRIVING US TOWARD our vision.
OUR VISION
The
Force Field How do we
Analysis leverage these forces?
How do we remove
or mitigate these
forces?
List those forces that RESTRAIN US
FROM ACHIEVING our vision.
WHERE WE ARE TODAY
15. This won’t happen overnight.
Mistakes will be made.
Communicate. Communicate. Communicate.