EFFECTIVE - Five Tips for Effective Team Preparation

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Jul 5, 2016

EFFECTIVE PREPARATION

Clarify Expectations

Clarify expectations with your team. Consider outlining expectations for different groups involved and the different stages of the event. You might outline expectations for the team members, the team leader, the field partner, and the sending organization. You may also outline expectations leading up to the event, the event, and post event.

Provide Resources

Create an experience that’s going to be a success for your team members; provide them with resources like fundraising tools, ways to connect with other team members, educational resources, information about the partner, and any other resource you feel important.

Educate about Tools

For organizations who are using ServiceReef, each participant has their own personal fundraising page where they can share their stories, post a personalized message and video, and provide a means for donors to help support them… make sure they know about this. You may have a number of tools that you have created for short term trip participants; make sure your participants know about them!

Encouragement

This may be a first experience for many of your participants, so be sure to help encourage their journey as a trip participant, in their fundraising, and how they share about their story.

Share Stories

Encourage your participants to share their stories, and these start long before the actual event. For organizations using ServiceReef, your participants can share stories at any point in their journey and these stories aggregate together for the entire team to create a team blog. This is a great way to share the bigger vision for missions in your organization.

You are a steward of their missional journey.

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Interviewing Potential Team Members

Things to consider Where is the best place to host your interview? If you have to make it over the phone, how can you get a good feel for the person? If in person, how many people will need to sit in the interview? If a big group, try to minimize the intimidation factor Set the applicant at ease - start with some small talk - it helps both parties Great questions to ask during an interview What excites you about going on this trip? What do you believe could change about your life by going on this trip? What compelled you to apply? How did you hear about this? What do you feel you bring to the team (skills, personality, etc.)? We all struggle to adjust to new cultures and environments. Tell me a time when you experienced a new culture or environment that made you feel uncomfortable. How did you react/adjust? What do you friends and family think of you going on this trip?