This document outlines an approach to community leadership development. It discusses bringing together potential leaders to recognize the need for action, that action is possible, and building their skills to take action. The goals are to enhance neighborhood organizing skills, build organizational capacity, and develop skills like participation, consensus building, and identifying new leaders. Strategies used include workshops, dialogues, and training groups. The document also discusses that leadership requires recognizing problems and possibilities for action, not just awareness raising, and creating networks for future collective action.
This document outlines an approach to community leadership development. It discusses bringing together potential leaders to recognize the need for action, that action is possible, and building their skills to take action. The goals are to enhance neighborhood organizing skills, build organizational capacity, and develop skills like participation, consensus building, and identifying new leaders. Strategies used include workshops, dialogues, and training groups. The document also discusses that leadership requires recognizing problems and possibilities for action, not just awareness raising, and creating networks for future collective action.
This document outlines an approach to community leadership development. It discusses bringing together potential leaders to recognize the need for action, that action is possible, and building their skills to take action. The goals are to enhance neighborhood organizing skills, build organizational capacity, and develop skills like participation, consensus building, and identifying new leaders. Strategies used include workshops, dialogues, and training groups. The document also discusses that leadership requires recognizing problems and possibilities for action, not just awareness raising, and creating networks for future collective action.
This document outlines an approach to community leadership development. It discusses bringing together potential leaders to recognize the need for action, that action is possible, and building their skills to take action. The goals are to enhance neighborhood organizing skills, build organizational capacity, and develop skills like participation, consensus building, and identifying new leaders. Strategies used include workshops, dialogues, and training groups. The document also discusses that leadership requires recognizing problems and possibilities for action, not just awareness raising, and creating networks for future collective action.
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leadership in community
development BY: DELAL & DELIYA ALI Key Concepts
Community must play a key role in defining
Skills, energies and resources exist within the community Coordination will increase impact New alliances will continue after the project itself has ended Goals of Leadership Development Enhance neighborhood organizing and leadership skills of residents
Assure that organization has capacity to lead and continue
the work
Develop skills that encourage participation, facilitate
consensus building, share responsibility, identify new leaders and enable groups to work together to achieve their goals
Connect people with others inside the neighborhood
around issues that they care about and that they think will improve the quality of life there Our work Organizing citizen involvement Outreach Develop coalition Develop community plans Strategies Used Workshops Dialogues Training Working with groups The four elements of leadership The leader recognizes that: 1. Action is necessary 2. Action is possible 3. S/he personally must act 4. The leader mobilizes others to believe that: Action is necessary Action is possible They personally must act The rest is: Analysis Planning Management What leadership is not Recognizing there is a problem Raising awareness about the problem Complaining that no one is doing anything about the problem Community Leadership Development A program that: 1. Brings together potential leaders from business, civil society, and (sometimes) government 2. Helps them to recognize the need to act by educating them about the community’s needs 3. Helps them to recognize that action is possible by showing them models for action 4. Builds skills needed for them to act 5. Creates a network for future collective action The Community Development Triad Mobilizes business to promote economic development Community Business Partnership Channels Builds skills donor and Community funds to connections Community Leadership local needs Foundation Group THANK YOU!