YOUNG LEADERS PROGRAM
Creating peer-to-peer accountability systems for college students and young adults
What are the challenges with being a young adult today?
Directionless vs Future outlook
Children are always encouraged to dream big and talk about their goals. Young adults on the other hand are expected to have it all figured out, but don’t. 34% of college graduate have no plan after graduation and 41% have no job lined up.
The importance of accountability…studies show a link between an external locus of control and depression
3 Types of accountability: self, peer-to-peer & authority driven:
Children rely primarily on AUTHORITY DRIVEN accountability. They have support systems in place and are punished or rewarded accordingly by parents, teachers and coaches.
Successful adults rely primarily on SELF DRIVEN accountability. They’ve developed the skills and habits necessary to be responsible for themselves.
College students and young adults are for the first time in their lives expected to be responsible for themselves. Their authority driven accountability system disappear and need to be replaced with a peer-to-peer system.
As children evolve into responsible adults they transition primary from a authority driven accountability system to a self driven one. The bridge between the two is finding a peer-to-peer system of accountability.
Our Solution: helping young adults set up a peer-to-peer accountability system.
Benefits of peer-to-peer accountability include:
Declaring goals to others
Be part a team
Practice difficult conversations
Teach to learn & learn to teach
Develop & maintain a sense of control over your life
Help others and practice leadership
Better Me + Better You = Better Us
Learn how to turn your youth sports organization into a DDO and replace accountability roles traditionally filled by adults with peer-to-peer accountability stsyems:
Young Leaders Zoom
Truth Reps
1-2-3 Point
All-Youth Games
“Youth sports is broken. We all know the problem, but we don’t yet have a scalable, tailorable, modular or sequenced solution. I’m convinced that the growth and implementation of youth leadership is that solution. Next Jump is my training center and Steady Buckets is my laboratory. I’m working on myself so that I’m strong enough to fix youth sports and change the world.”
Coach Macky Bergman is the founder/director of Steady Buckets and an external partner/ social capitalist at Next Jump. He brings over 20+ years of youth coaching experience to Steady Buckets. Coach Macky has trained boys and girls of all ages, top high school prosects, and NCAA student-athletes, as well as Euro-League and NBA professionals. He played four years of varsity basketball at The University of Rochester and received three all-conferance academic team honors. In 2010 he started Steady Buckets in order to bring quality skill development training to NYC youth basketball players. Under his leadership, Steady Buckets has thrived and now serves over 2,500 youth. In 2018 he was honored by NY1 as New Yorker of the Week and by the Brooklyn Nets as Jr. Nets Coach of the Year.
More recently Macky has invested his efforts into developing peer-to-peer feedback models as a way to eliminate the youth coach’s potential for harm and increase the impact of youth leadership in sports. He takes Next Jump leadership in practice (LIP) lessons and translates them into youth friendly leadership lessons every Thursday on COA at 6:30pm EST.
“Close your eyes and imagine you are at a youth sports event. What do you hear? What should you hear? What you should hear is youth participants strategizing, communicating, encouraging each other and laughing together. The reality is that you’ll most likely hear adults yelling. I want to change that.”