Scenario 1

TEAM ANDERSON is located in a suburban township outside Cincinnati. Anderson has Cheryl as the neighborhood team leader. Cheryl was an NTL in 2008 and continued to be involved as a leader with Organizing for America ever since. She has a phone bank captain, canvass captain, volunteer coordinator, data captain, house party captain, soccer captain, and most of those people also have “deputies” for when they are unavailable or go on vacation. As a team they always hit their goals. Cheryl has been very stressed lately though. As the campaign heats up there are so many days of action and so many more people getting involved it’s very hard for her to keep track of them, and it’s overwhelming some of her core team members and they are threatening to cut back what they are willing to do for the campaign.

1. Draw this team’s snowflake. What phase is the team in? ________________

2. What does the team need to take it to the next phase?

3. Use the neighborhood team planner to plan out the next few weeks of activities for this team. How will you use these activities to take the team to the next phase?

4. Who will be the next key team member you have a maintenance 1-1 with in order to put this plan in action?

5. Plan the agenda for your next maintenance 1-1 with that person.

NEIGHBORHOOD TEAM DEVELOPMENT

Scenario 2

TEAM PORTSMITH consists of Nancy and Paul. Their turf covers the county seat (a small town) and half the county outside of that which is mostly very small farming communities. They have both been actively volunteering with the field organizer for the past three months, but Nancy really doesn’t like voter contact so she was confirmed as the data captain and Paul became the neighborhood team leader two weeks ago. They have weekly phone banks, but Paul has to do most of the volunteer recruitment. He gets people to come to his events- phone banks and their canvass launch – but often they don’t come back for the next event.

1. Draw this team’s snowflake. What phase is the team in? ________________

2. What does the team need to take it to the next phase?

3. Use the neighborhood team planner to plan out the next few weeks of activities for this team. How will you use these activities to take the team to the next phase?

4. Who will be the next key team member you have a maintenance 1-1 with in order to put this plan in action?

5. Plan the agenda for your next maintenance 1-1 with that person.

Scenario 3

TEAM CENTRAL TOLEDO is a quickly developing team. They have Michele as their Neighborhood Team Leader, who has been involved in the campaign since beginning collecting HB194 signatures last year and was confirmed has an NTL after the Issue 2 GOTV. She has expanded her team and they have a phone bank captain, faith captain, and voter registration captain. She has an African-American urban turf and there would be opportunities here for a Barber Shop and Beauty Salon program, but no one on the team has ever done anything like that before. Most people on this team didn’t want to canvass so they have had trouble scheduling shifts for the canvass launch.

1. Draw this team’s snowflake. What phase is the team in? ________________

2. What does the team need to take it to the next phase?

3. Use the neighborhood team planner to plan out the next few weeks of activities for this team. How will you use these activities to take the team to the next phase?

4. Who will be the next key team member you have a maintenance 1-1 with in order to put this plan in action?

5. Plan the agenda for your next maintenance 1-1 with that person.

Scenario 4

TEAM CLEVELAND STATE is a very new team on a campus where we have not organized since 2008. The organizer here has mostly non-campus turf, but started organizing here about two months ago after the youth summit. Katie and Don have both been very active in helping with the pledge to register program and have recruited about 5 students every week to help them table on campus. Katie is a senior and Don is a junior. Katie has been in-charge of communicating with the FO and getting the table every week, and Don has been doing class raps to recruit people to help them at the table. Katie was really reluctant to become a “leader” though because she is really busy looking for a job, and Don doesn’t feel like he has enough experience to be in charge of the whole campus.

1. Draw this team’s snowflake. What phase is the team in? ________________

2. What does the team need to take it to the next phase?

3. Use the neighborhood team planner to plan out the next few weeks of activities for this team. How will you use these activities to take the team to the next phase?

4. Who will be the next key team member you have a maintenance 1-1 with in order to put this plan in action?

5. Plan the agenda for your next maintenance 1-1 with that person.

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Neighbourhood Team Development