Eastern Montgomery Young Life

What?

There are many facets to leading young life with my team at Eastern Montgomery High School. The three c's of young life are contact work, campaigners and club. Contact work is the work done at the high school, or in the community. Just hanging out with high schoolers, meeting new people, and being a role model in the school. Campaigners is the weekly bible study at someone's home in Shawsville, where high schoolers meet together to learn about the Bible. Club is the huge group event every week, aimed at high schoolers who don't attend church and don't know anything about Christianity. It's organized chaos for one hour in the community room of the library every Monday at 7. At the end of the hour, myself or one of my teammates gives a talk about importance of Jesus Christ. My first club talk was first semester of this year, and afterwards the team met together at my house for "club critique" where we go over what worked at club at what didn't, and give constructive criticism to the speaker. Unfortunately, my talk needed a lot of constructive criticism, something I didn't take kindly to.

So what?

In Group Dynamics for Teams by Daniel Levi, he talks about the need for team performance evaluations on page 276. "Performance evaluations are valuable for providing feedback to employees, motivating them, and supporting training and development..." These are all great reasons for team feedback. I realize that now, though I didn't while I was being the one criticized. However, my next club talk went even better than my first, due to me working through the problems I encountered and fixing them during my talk.

Now what?

I look forward to club critiques after clubs where I speak. I know that during these times I get useful information for bettering my performance on stage. Though club is only a small facet of what Young Life is about, it is very important that we work hard on club talks and do them excellently. Therefore, team feedback is a valuable asset in bettering our work at Eastern Montgomery High School. For more information on Eastern Montgomery Young Life go to http://sites.younglife.org/sites/EasternMontgomery/default.aspx