Posted by Robert F

Program Host	Chapter
Host Region and Chapter	Northern East - DC Council Brandeis AZA
Program Type	Brotherhood Convention Education Leadership Leadership Training Convention
Time Required	5-12 hours
Target Population(s)	Boys (AZA) Members Teen Leaders Freshmen Sophomores
Folds Targeted	Education
People Participating	10-30

Program Summary:

The overall goal of the program is to give each aleph in the chapter the base to become a leader in the chapter and make the chapter stronger.

Full Description:

BLTI
6:00-6:05Introduction: Comms told you that you are going to BLTI this weekend and you might have said “cool”, but you also might have said “what is this BLTI you speak of?” Does BLTI stand for Bacon Lettuce Tomato Iodine or does it stand for Brainstorming Leads To Inventions? NO!, BLTI stands for Brandeis Leadership Training Institute. But what exactly is the point of Brandeis Leadership Training Institute?  The goal of BLTI is to give each aleph a strong base so that he can help Brandeis be the best chapter it can be.  Throughout your time in Brandeis, you will plan programs, win championships, win awards, run in elections, attend Brandeiserz, write articles for the Ledger, recruit Alephs, and become leaders.  It is our goal that BLTI will give you a better understanding of how to accomplish this.  In order to help you learn about the different things you can do in Brandeis, we are starting with position training workshops.

6:05-6:50: Position Training Workshops:  We have workshops for Sopher, Gizbor, Mazkir, Shaliach, Moreh, and upper leadership.  The sopher, gizbor, mazkir, and shaliach workshops are all 15 minutes long and we will have two rotations for you to choose from.  The Moreh and upper leadership workshops are 30 minutes long, and if you want to do one of those, you only get one rotation.

6:50-7:00  Individual Aleph
7:00-7:30 Dinner
7:30-8:00 Program on how to plan a program
The thing that holds AZA chapters together is programming.  It brings us back week after week.  As we said earlier, you don’t have to be S’gan to plan a program, and planning a program is the most important thing you can do for the chapter.  Hopefully each person here will have planned a program by the time he graduates.  We have some program outlines here that we want you guys to learn from.  So, if anybody wants to try to lead the program on these outlines raise your hand.  (Give history of the world outline to volunteer).  Second Volunteer will do “AZA through the Years”.  Both attempts will fail because the outlines are terrible.  Then, we will pass out the History of the World outline to half the group and AZA through the Years to the other half.  They will get partners with the same outline and figure out why the outline isn’t good.  Then we will meet back up and come up with a list of what it’s missing.  Then we will pass out full History of the World outline and Bill’s Trial outline.  People will be able to see the difference and learn from it.  
Split everybody into two groups.  Mikey leads one, Robert leads the other.  Robert and Mikey explain that the will keep the outlines that they are getting and actually try to make them into programs, so everybody has to plan the program seriously.  Everybody picks a partner and each partner group gets a magazine to look through to find ideas for a program.  The partner groups plan a full program.  Then the whole group gives constructive feedback.  Mikey and Robert Collect the outlines.
8:00-8:30 Program on how to execute a program
Mikey talks about five-fold while I:
1.    Talk very loudly
2.    Fall asleep
3.    Play with my phone.
First time through, Mikey responds badly.
1.    Mikey ignores
2.    Mikey yells, “ROBERT WAKE UP”
3.    Mikey says, “Robert put your phone away.  That is extremely disrespectful,” and continues talking about it for two minutes
Second time through, Mikey responds well.
1.    Asks Robert to quiet down.  If he doesn’t, Mikey waits until Robert shuts up.
2.    Mikey finishes his point, quietly wakes Robert up.  Quickly and privately tell Robert he has to pay attention.
3.    Mikey finishes his point, asks Robert to leave the room.
Ask for volunteer.  The person who volunteers will bring up his partner with whom he planned the program.  The partners will then pick an activity that they did from this program and lead it in front of the chapter.  We will tell them that the goal is for them to practice how to execute a program.  After each partner group, the chapter will give feedback.

8:30-9:30Ben’s part for Re-Education:
Intro
Cardinal Principles
Up You Men
Heartbeat
9:30-9:40<Break>
9:40-10:40Come and Join Us in Our Song (Robert)

10:40-11:30Ira does The Brandeis Way (Which is also a history program)
11:30-11:45 Badadum
11:45-12:00 One O’Clock (Mikey)

12:00-12:30Brotherhood:
Idea: Take what Dan said in his Advisor report and make it into a challenge.  Go to park; use this challenge to get people really pumped up.
Advisor Dan says we are in a transition period.
Advisor Dan says he has seen the quality of the chapter decline greatly during transition periods.
Supposedly we have had very strong leaders in our chapter over the past few years.
Supposedly those leaders were a lot stronger than the ones in the chapter right now.
People say we will become complacent because it is the easy thing to do.  But who is to say that Brandeis takes the easy way out?
People say we will have to work 5 times harder than we have in the past to make this term a success.  They may be right.  But who is to say that we aren’t prepared to work 50 times harder than we have in the past?
People say Brandeis has peaked.  But who is to say that Brandeis will not continue to improve?
People have said all of these things.  But we say: Let’s prove them wrong.  Because Joseph Kennedy once said, “When the going gets tough, the tough get going.”  People may be right that the going is tough.  But what is stopping us from getting ourselves going?  What is stopping us from being tough?  Absolutely nothing.  We will get going.  Because I will be damned if we will go down without a fight.  Because I will be damned if we go down at all.  Because I will be damned if we are going to let somebody imply that we are not great leaders.  Everyone of us here is a great leader.  Brandeis will continue to improve because we can.  Brandeis will soar to levels never seen before because we are determined.  Brandeis will not peak because we refuse to do things because they are easy.  Brandeis will be a better chapter than it has ever been because Brandeis never ceases to work hard.  Brandeis will surpass past expectations because Brandeis will hold our own expectations higher.  Brandeis will outdo what we have done in the past because we have pride in everything our chapter does.

And immediately afterwards we have cheer session.

12:30- ?Good and Welfare

Materials:
Jets Jersey (Mikey has)
Lightbulb
Two Flashlights
Copies of bad history of the world outline (Robert has)
Copies of good history of the world outline (Robert has)
Copies of AZA through the years outline (mikey has to do)
Copies of Bill’s Trial outline (Mikey has)
About 15 Magazines (Robert has a few)
Copies of:
Come and Join us in our song (Robert has)
Up You Men
Badadum (Robert has)
G & W candle (Robert has)
A lot of blank pieces of paper (Mikey has)
Pieces of fruit for Mikey to eat (Mikey has)
Something to hold the stuff for the individual aleph program
iPod (Mikey has)
Sleeping mask (Benjy has)

This obviously does not have the position training workshops or the individual aleph program or "The Brandeis Way" here because it took up took much space.  If you want to know what they are, email me at nyyfan6789@yahoo.com

Submitter's Suggestions:

It takes a lot of time if you do everything we did.  We ended up changing it a little at the last minute because we realized that "Come and Join Us in Our Song" is too long to teach all at once, so we spread it throughout the night.  We had to also put in a few more breaks than we planned for because it was a very dense night for everyone.  We didn't start Good and Welfare until 1:30AM.

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