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WORKSHEET Rewards of service page 14 Time and again you’ve been asked to think about or to describe the positive aspects of AmeriCorps service. Here’s how some other AmeriCorps members view service. INDIANA AMERICORPS In the spring of 1996, Indiana AmeriCorps members described these aspects of their service as the most exciting and/or inspirational. * Making a difference * Seeing results * Being involved * Starting a program from the ground up * Being creative * Having an opportunity for input * Experiencing the rewards of * Giving hope to others service (reciprocity) How does this list compare with what you found most exciting and/or inspirational during your AmeriCorps service? Place a check next to the entries that you experienced, and add entries to the list if you have some others. Your additions: * ___________________________________________________________ * ___________________________________________________________ * ___________________________________________________________ * ___________________________________________________________ * ___________________________________________________________ VOLUNTEER MARYLAND! Volunteer Maryland!, a program engaging AmeriCorps members, focuses on the attributes of servant leaders. Servant leaders take great care to ensure that “other people’s highest priority needs are being served.” The servant leader works to empower others to become “healthier, wiser, freer, more autonomous, more likely themselves to become servants.” Servant leaders are in service first, then aspire to lead. A servant leader hopes to benefit, or at least not further deprive, the least privileged in society (R.K. Greenleaf. Servant Leadership: A Journey into the Nature of Legitimate Power and Greatness. Mahway: Paulist Press, 1977). Were you working toward becoming a servant leader during your AmeriCorps service? How do your skills and experience compare with servant leaders’ attributes? Place a checkmark in the appropriate boxes to indicate which attributes you have fully developed; those you are working on; and those you don't possess and/or need to work on. ATTRIBUTE Possess/Use Working on Don't Have/ Need to Work on Listening Healing Persuasion Foresight Commitment to the growth of people Commitment to building community Empathy Awareness Conceptualization Stewardship How might you work on the attributes you need to develop? Who might help you to do this? In what ways? ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________
WORKSHEET Challenges of service Most experiences in life have positive and negative aspects. As your AmeriCorps experience comes to an end, you may feel burned out. It wouldn't be surprising if you have experienced many challenges during your service. Consider again the experiences of AmeriCorps members in Indiana and Maryland. INDIANA AMERICORPS Here is a list of frustrations and challenges to service that some AmeriCorps members in Indiana identified. Place a check next to the challenges in the following list that you have experienced as an AmeriCorps member. Too much administrative work Apathy/lack of initiative from community members Lack of continuity in programming and with community members Lack of understanding of AmeriCorps by others Lack of consistency among volunteers and other program persons Having to learn to deal with people where they are, not where they are "supposed" to be Limited resources VOLUNTEER MARYLAND! The Volunteer Maryland! program produced the following list of challenges to serving as a way of life. Place a check next to the challenges in this list that you have experienced as an AmeriCorps member. Taking failures personally Personality conflicts Lack of money Not making a difference in agency No end to the need Ignorance Materialism Complacency Isolation Cynicism Frustration Anger Powerlessness Impatience Exhaustion Sadness Lone voice “Know-it-all”-ism Apathy Polarization Negativism Insincerity Autocracy Depression Fatigue Loss Bitterness Arrogance What challenges have you experienced that are not mentioned on either the Indiana or Maryland list? ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ page 15
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