The Adults You Will Work With:
As a TYG leader, you will have to work with adults in many capacities.  Depending on the size and nature of your congregation, some of these adults could be:

Parents	Rabbis	Your TYG advisor
The executive director	Educators	Cantors
The custodial staff	Other Temple staff members	The Temple Board
Congregants	The regional advisor	Other TYG advisors
The youth committee	Other adults in the community

The Ways You Will Work With Them:
All of these people will have a particular relationship to the TYG and will play a particular role in how your youth group functions. 

- Some of them will have access to resources that your TYG can use.
- Some of them will be able to provide services that your TYG needs provided.
- Some of them will have information that you need.
- Some of them will have suggestions and ideas for you that could really help you out.
- Some of them will want you to do things for them.
- Some of them will have goals that conflict with yours.
- Some of them will have ideas and suggestions that you don’t like or that aren’t helpful.
- Some of them will be unable to provide you with the resources, services, or information that you need.
- Some of them will believe strongly in youth leadership and youth led programming.
- Some of them will believe that adults should always be the decision-makers.
- Some of them will have had really good experiences with youth groups in the past.
- Some of them will have had negative experiences with youth groups in the past. 

In order to work effectively with the adults in your community, you need to be aware of what they bring to the table and prepared to acknowledge their agendas. 

The Guiding Principle for Working with Adult Leadership:
All of this brings us to our central point:  the part we can say while you stand on one foot. 

Look at every situation from many perspectives;
know how your TYG fits into the big picture.

In the words of Rabbi Hillel, “The rest is commentary.  Go and study it.”