# of people: 4-6 people (current members).

Desired Results:

The Wheel Group is composed of committed people who work as a team and feel appreciated and supported in their work in gracefully meeting the changing needs of YAG. The Wheel Group function is to provide information and support for other YAGers, and gather information and opinion on YAGers' needs and wants for the group. The following are good goals for YAG as a whole to work towards and for the Wheel Groups to help the group accomplish:

• YAGers have the resources they need to put on events/work on YAG projects with minimal time spent on administrative issues, allowing more time and energy for creativity.
• The Wheel Group promotes YAGers documenting information on website or elsewhere so current and future organizers can build upon, not recreate, their work.
• An orientation is provided to incoming facilitators orally from current and previous YAGers holding that position and the Wheel Group, with the help of the online job aids. The learning time is quick enough that jobs can be swapped, passed on and picked up with ease.
• No one YAG volunteer position (including being on the Wheel Group) requires more than 4 hours a month to fill the basic requirements (thus preventing burnout) because of the above bullets and teamwork across all of YAG.
• New people are finding their ways into leadership positions. The Wheel Group will be made available to these new motivated YAGers.
• YAG is a welcoming, supportive and fulfilling place serving YAGers wide variety of interests.
• It is easy for newcomers to find information about YAG and get involved.

• Keep in mind our mission statement and our UU principles.
• Commit to being a part of the Wheel Group for a specific period of time, at least four months.
• All members of the wheel group are liasons for YAG to the church and other groups.
• From "Leadership Continuity in UU Young Adult Programs", by Riley McLaughlin, July 2000:
  • Expect and prepare for transition.
  • Share leadership, recruit and support new leaders.
  • Stay in touch with organizations and allies with long-term stability.
• Obtain from communication group periodically a backup of all web files and list serve emails on CD, or learn from them how to backup.

• Draw upon the rich offerings of YAG itself as well as the congregation as a whole.
• Rely on each other; work as a team.
• We have ministers who care that our group works well.
• The church administrator: fphsq@aol.com, 617-876-7772
• Our budget.
• "Leadership Continuity in UU Young Adult Programs", by Riley McLaughlin, July 2000.
• The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey, p. 174, on delegation.
• The UUA Office of Young Adult and Campus Ministries (YACM).
• The Continental UU Young Adult Network (CUUYAN).

• The Wheel Committee will check-in with the other groups regularly (every few months or as necessary) to see how they are doing, to check for burn-out and to assist as needed. When people are ready to leave their positions, the Wheel Group will advertise for the position.
• The Wheel Committee will hold (or delegate someone to plan and hold) an annual business conference in April to evaluate, with input from YAG, how well the needs of YAG are being met by the structure described here.
• As a result of the evaluation, the Wheel Committee will determine what changes to make to the structure of YAG or whether YAG is better served without a structure.