Not Enough Volunteers
Troubleshooting
Your planning a dodgeball game and two minutes before it starts 6 out of ten people running it cancel on you. What do you do?
a. Find available teachers to help you run the dodgeball game or call other people to see if they are available
b. Tell everyone to go home
c. Physically make people help you out
a. Find available teachers to help you run the dodgeball game or call other people to see if they are available
Contingency Planning
You know that the school you're going to, to teach a workshop has bad internet. You need to make a plan in case the internet cuts out. Which plan do you choose?
a. Make sure to have an internet plan and a non-internet plan
b. Nothing and hope that the internet stays good
c. Force delegates to give you their notebooks so that you can finish the workshop
a. Make sure to have an internet plan and a non-internet plan
Troubleshooting
You start a food drive and everyone you know has said that they will donate. You get a month into the food drive and no one has given you any food. What do you do?
a. Physically force people to give you what you want
b. Do absolutely nothing and hope for the best
c. Nicely ask them to please donate food in case they forgot
c. Nicely ask them to please donate food in case they forgot
Contingency Planning
Your facilitating a workshop and you want to be prepared if your delegates aren't having fun. Which plan best fits the scenario?
a. Don't do anything and let them fall asleep
b. Let them have a paper ball fight
c. Create multiple icebreakers throughout your workshop to keep their energy up
c. Create multiple icebreakers throughout your workshop to keep their energy up
Troubleshooting
You've looked at the weather and today is a good day to have a car wash. 20 minutes into the car wash there is a tornado warning. What do you do?
a. Work through the storm
b. Reschedule for another day
c. Give up and do anything
b. Reschedule for another day
Contingency Planning
You are planning a school dance and some of the volunteers tell you that there's only a 50% chance that they will be able to make it. You need to plan in case they can't make it. Which plan makes the most sense?
a. Hope that everyone will be able to volunteer
b. Call extra people to see if they can volunteer in case the others can't come
c. Yell and have a tantrum during the dance
b. Call extra people to see if they can volunteer in case the others can't make it
Troubleshooting
You are teaching a workshop and suddenly there is a mass power outage and you can't use your electronics. What do you do?
a. Wait for it to be fixed
b. Sit around and do nothing
c. Quickly make visuals and use paper to finish your workshop or play icebreakers until the power is running again
c. Quickly make visuals and use paper to finish your workshop or play icebreakers until the power is running again
Contingency Planning
You are planning a bake sale. You need to make a plan in case no one buys your food. Which plan do you choose?
a. Steel people's money
b. Bully people into giving you their money
c. Go around the school promoting your bake sale so hopefully you will get some money
c. Go around the school promoting your bake sale so hopefully you will get some money
Troubleshooting
You have planned a school play and realize that everyone is starting to get bored. What do you do?
a. Have them get up and stretch their legs every now and then or do some icebreakers
b. Let them throw things at the actors and boo them
c. Do nothing so that they fall asleep
a. Have them get up and stretch their legs every now and then or do some icebreakers
Contingency Planning
You are planning a bake sale outside of your local Walmart. You know that there is a 40% chance of rain. Which plan would you choose in case it rains?
a. Watch all of your things get destroyed in the rain
b. Have a tent to put your things in or ask the manager of Walmart if you can sell inside
c. Force people to come anyway
b. Have a tent to put your things in or ask the manager of Walmart if you can sell inside
Troubleshooting
You're at a party that you're hosting and none of the volunteers show up. What do you do?
a. Bribe people into helping you
b. Force people to volunteer
c. Quickly call some of your friends and ask if they're available to volunteer
c. Quickly call some of your friends and ask if they're available to volunteer
Contingency Planning
You are planning a school dance and you know that the karaoke machine doesn't work very well. You don't want the people coming to the dance to be upset. So which plan makes the most sense?
a. Find a technician to fix the karaoke machine
b. Let the karaoke machine break
c. Tell them that the karaoke machine works even though it doesn't
a. Find a technician to fix the karaoke machine
Troubleshooting
Your in the middle of a bake sale at your school dance and you've only made $10, but you've sold everything you have. What do you do?
a. Nothing
b. Quickly ask a volunteer to go to the store and get more snacks
c. Steel the money you need from the students at the dance
b. Quickly ask a volunteer to go to the store and get more snacks
Contingency Planning
Your facilitating a workshop and you see that most of it is you lecturing. You know that it will make the delegates a little bored. Which plan makes the most sense in this scenario?
a. Schedule icebreakers and moments to get up and stretch
b. Let the delegates get bored and fall asleep
c. Completely change your workshop and not tell anyone
a. Schedule icebreakers and moments to get up and stretch
Troubleshooting
Your outside of your local CVS for a bake sale. Suddenly lightning strikes your table and burns everything. What do you do?
a. Sell the burned items to people
b. Lie and say that you made a ton of money
c. Plan other events to get your money back and reschedule the bake sale
c. Plan other events to get your money back and reschedule the bake sale
Contingency Planning
Two of your volunteers for a school dance may not be able to make it to the event. You want to be sure that you have enough people. Which plan would you choose?
a. Make sure you have backup people in case the other two volunteers can't make it
b. Hope that the two volunteers will make it
c. Scare people into helping you
a. Make sure you have backup people in case the other two volunteers can't make it
Troubleshooting
Your in the middle of a giving a presentation. Suddenly your screen stops working. You look at the wires and see that one of them was cut. What do you do?
a. Go cut someone else's wires in spite
b. Go on with the presentation without the screen
c. Send everyone home
b. Go on with the presentation without the screen
Contingency Planning
You have a school dance planned and realize that you might not raise enough money. Which plan makes the most sense?
a. Plan a bake sale along with the dance
b. Tell them that you made enough money even though you didn't
c. Go around your neighborhood robbing people's houses
a. Plan a bake sale along with the dance
Troubleshooting
You've planned a birthday party for your favorite teacher at school. The people at the party are starting to get bored and they need something to do. Which plan makes the most sense in this situation?
a. Do nothing and see what happens
b. End the party
c. Ask the people at the party if they have any fun games they want you guys to play
c. Ask the people at the party if they have any fun games they want you guys to play
Contingency Planning
There is a 20% chance that during your car wash there will be a terrible storm. Which of these options fits the scenario the best?
a. Do nothing
b. Schedule a rain date and if it starts storming stop and do it on the rain date
c. Make people come even if it does storm
b. Schedule a rain date and if it starts storming stop and do it on the rain date
Troubleshooting
You're at a kickball game that you've hosted for your school. Most of the teachers who agreed to volunteer had to stay at the school to finish up some work and now you don't have enough volunteers. What should you do?
a. Hope for the best
b. Ask some of your friends if they know anyone who can help out
c. Go force the teachers to help you
b. Ask some of your friends if they know anyone who can help out
Contingency Planning
You want to be prepared for a workshop you are facilitating in two weeks. You need to make sure that your electronics are working. Which option makes the most sense in this situation?
a. Make sure you have an option for electrics and an option for no electronics
b. Let the delegates do what they want if the electronics don't work
c. Steal your parents laptops for backup
a. Make sure you have an option for electronics and an option for no electronics
Troubleshooting
You've planned a bake sale. You thought you had enough food, but you ran out and don't have enough money. What do you do?
a. Lie to the person in charge and tell them that everything went perfectly
b. Make some calls and ask nicely if they could bring some more food
c. Go steal food from a nearby grocery store
b. Make some calls and ask nicely if they could bring some more food
Contingency Planning
You are planning a bake sale and your not sure if it will be fun enough. You want the people to have fun. Which plan sounds best?
a. Do another bake sale at the exact same time
b. Just let them sit there and do nothing
c. Add a movie or some minute to win it games
c. Add a movie or some minute to win it games
Troubleshooting
You're having a school dance and suddenly there's a tornado warning. You're safe indoors, but you aren't allowed to go outside due to the storm. What do you do?
a. Send the people outside anyway
b. Tell people's parents to drive to the school during the storm
c. Stay indoors and ask adults what the normal routine is for this type of situation
c. Stay indoors and ask adults what the normal routine is for this type of situation