Personal excellence and youth work
Personal excellence “The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential: these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.” – Confucius The very best youth workers I have ever met share an extremely rare focus. These Ultimate Youth Workers want to be the best. The […]
Mental health… Do you understand?
Mental Health is the leading cause of preventable deaths in the Western world. Unfortunately, most youth work education gives a youth worker a passing knowledge at best… and this is dangerous.
Youth work and excellence.
One of the values of Ultimate Youth Worker is ‘excellence in all we do’. We expect that if people are paying for our services they deserve nothing but the most exceptional service. As I have been teaching the last year or so I have come across a scary value that has crept into our sector. […]
Is the professionalisation of our sector destroying the very foundation of youth work?
Thoughts on professionalisation Over the last couple of days I have been re-listening to some of my favourite podcasts from c2ypodcast. Two in particular grabbed my attention as the guests spoke about the failure of the professionalisation movement in light of youth work core principles. We have stated a number of times on this blog that the […]
Ultimate youth workers will always try one more time.
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.Thomas A. Edison It is a fact in the daily work of a youth worker that there is disappointments and setbacks. We are regularly lied to, see the worst in people and we get limited if […]
Bring a pen and paper!!!
A short one today! Over the last couple of weeks I have been working with a number of student youth workers helping them with their field placements. One of the most frustrating things tat I have seen in these new recruits to the sector is something which has become more prevalent over the last decade. They […]
The Habit of Youth Work: Excellence in all we do.
Youth work is a difficult profession. It requires the patience of a saint, the wisdom of Aristotle and the stamina of a thoroughbred. In the craziness of all we do sometimes excellence is traded for efficiency. How many of us have been asked to cut corners to meet our funding targets or have been required to […]