My Challenges as an Organizer

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My Challenges as an Organizer

Are you an organizer looking to reflect on your experiences and identify areas for improvement? This quiz is designed to help you explore your challenges in organizing, whether it be your workload, committee dynamics, or personal skills.

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Understand your leadership capacity
Identify your strengths and weaknesses

12 Questions3 MinutesCreated by ReflectiveLeader302

How many Saturdays did you work in the last month?

Three or four

Two

More than one, but I worked less during the week

Zero or one

Has your committee run a campaign within the last six months?

We decided on an issue but it isn’t going anywhere

Yes, and there has been at least one decision about it

Yes, but we don’t know when it will be decided

No; we are still building up our committee

How often do you cook food at home?

I don’t know how to cook

Almost every day

I can cook but I get takeout more than twice a week

Basically never

If you moved out of state tomorrow, how many leaders - not staff members, leaders - would be able to take over enough to keep things going?

Five or more

3-4

Maybe one or two, but they’re not really ready for that level of responsibility yet

I think the committee would stop meeting if that happened

Do you currently have a work plan that you use?

I have one, and I look at it pretty regularly

I have one, but I haven’t looked at it in months

I have one, but I don’t think it’s very good

I don’t have one

How many times in the last two weeks have you thought about giving a leader a task and then done it yourself?

Oops - I did that recently

I have not given any tasks to leaders in the last two weeks, because all the tasks available were too hard for them

I don’t think I have done that - my leaders do a lot of their own tasks

We haven’t had any tasks in the last two weeks

How many 1:1s have you had in the last week, not with your boss or other staff?

10-15

5-10

1-4

I did not do any 1:1s last week

When was the last time an active leader of yours said “no” when you asked them to do something?

I don’t remember anyone saying no lately

I can’t think of a time, probably because I haven’t asked much of my leaders lately

My leaders say no to me pretty frequently

I would be pretty upset if one of them said no to me, so I try to avoid that

When was the last time a leader said “yes” to a task that you asked them to do, then didn’t do it?

My leaders do that all the time and it really bothers me

I can remember that happening a while back

That doesn’t usually happen on our committee

Once, a long time ago

After your last campaign decision / vote, did you take time off?

I have never been a part of a campaign that had a vote or decision

Yes, I took 1-3 days off

No, because there was too much to do

No, I actually worked more after the decision

When was the last time you said, “I’m so burned out”?

This week

More than a year ago

I have never said that out loud, even though it was probably true

I haven’t really been in a position of being burned out before

Do you know what organizing skills you’re good at and which ones you need to develop?

Ha! I’m good at everything

I can’t really imagine a list of organizing skills, so I can’t tell you what I’m good at

I have so many skills to develop that it is intimidating to think about

Yes, I have a pretty good sense of my strengths and weaknesses

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