The Community Leadership Handbook 1st edition by Gordon Curphy, James Krile, Duane Lund ISBN B00CNXI0MC 978-1618589200

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ISBN 10: B00CNXI0MC
ISBN 13: 978-1618589200
Author: Gordon Curphy, James Krile, Duane Lund

Your roadmap to community leadership: This significant guide puts the tools of democracy into everyones hands. Based on the best of Blandin Foundations 20-year experience in developing community leaders, it gives community members like yourself the tools to bring people together to make changes. Here are some of the useful resources you’ll find: Identifying Community Assets; Community Problem Analysis; Accessing Community Data; Appreciative Inquiry; Translating Vision to Action; Interpersonal Communication for Leaders; Managing Interpersonal Conflict as a Leader; Building Social Capital Across Cultures; Network Mapping: Locating Your Social Capital; Stakeholders Analysis; Building Coalitions; Building Effective Community Teams; Recruiting and Sustaining Volunteers; Getting the Most from Your Meetings.

Across the country, individuals and groups are hearing a bugle call to action. Rural, urban, rich, poor, left, right, and everywhere in between community members are waking up to bridge differences and make their communities the best they can be. If you want to make a difference where you live, this book is your roadmap. If you attend early and late night meetings to figure out what needs to get done, this book is your handbook. If you give your time and energy to make things happen, this book is your guide. If you work to involve your neighbors to solve problems, this book is your ally. Carefully crafted examples based on real-life leadership issues help you see how to put the tools of leadership to work where you live, today. Whether you are an active community member who wants to make a difference, a nonprofit leader serving the community, a leadership advisor, a government liaison called on to convene the community, a business leader, a public servant, or a foundation program officer specializing in community needs, you will find in this book the tools and theories essential to getting your work done.

The Community Leadership Handbook 1st Table of contents:

INTRODUCTION – Getting the Most from This Book

PART ONE – Three Core Competencies for Community Leadership

Framing Ideas

Community Example: A Welcoming Community

Framing is complex

Framing creates focus

Building and Using Social Capital

Community Example: Industrial Park

Community action takes place through human relationships

Social capital flows through networks

Social capital comes in two forms

Mobilizing Resources

Move others to speak and act in support of the goals

Engage people who have access to key networks

Directly involve large numbers of people throughout the community

Remember the different points at which people adopt new ideas

Combining the Competencies

Social capital helps people manage differences in framing

Framing can increase or decrease social capital

Effective framing makes it easier to mobilize resources

Social capital is required to mobilize resources

Mobilizing resources can increase or decrease social capital

Solve problems by looking at how competencies combine

Use tools to practice the competencies

PART TWO – Tools for Framing Ideas

TOOL 1. Identifying Community Assets

Community Example: Mercado Central

About this tool

Step 1. Clarify why you want asset information

Step 2. Create initial lists of assets

Step 3. Decide how to collect more detailed asset information

Step 4. Design your asset inventory and use it

Step 5. Map the assets you discovered

Step 6. Put your asset map to use

TOOL 2. Analyzing Community Problems

Community Example: Drug Abuse Prevention Task Force

About this tool

Step 1. State the problem as you see it now

Step 2. Describe why this is a problem

Step 3. Describe the causes and consequences of the problem

Step 4. Describe who is involved

Step 5. Identify information that you are missing

Step 6. Define the problem in one sentence

Step 7. Define the problem in manageable terms

TOOL 3. Accessing Community Data

Community Example: Community Action Program

About this tool

Step 1. Decide what you’re looking for

Step 2. Start locally

Step 3. Expand your search

Step 4. Determine what the data means

Step 5. Follow up on your research

TOOL 4. Doing Appreciative Inquiry

Community Example: Downtown Reborn

About this tool

Step 1. Conduct individual analysis

Step 2. Conduct two-person interviews

Step 3. Hold small group discussions

Step 4. Hold a large group discussion

Step 5. Choose how to follow up

Step 6. Experiment with an alternate form of Appreciative Inquiry

TOOL 5. Visioning

Community Example: Growing Jobs Through Education

About this tool

Step 1. Identify a coordinating individual or agency

Step 2. Form the steering committee

Step 3. Extend the invitations

Step 4. Hold a meeting to create the vision

Step 5. Draft the vision statement

Step 6. Gather reactions to the vision statement

Step 7. Share and market the vision

TOOL 6. Translating Vision into Action

Community Example: River Flats Library

About this tool

Step 1. Revisit the vision

Step 2. List key tasks needed to achieve the vision

Step 3. Choose criteria for setting priorities

Step 4. Set priorities

Step 5. Develop indicators of success

Step 6. Explain the SMART goal concept

Step 7. Review the vision, prioritized tasks, and success indicators

Step 8. Brainstorm goals

Step 9. Use the SMART criteria to state final goals

PART THREE – Tools for Building and Using Social Capital

TOOL 7. Building Social Capital through Effective Communication

Community Example: A Dynamic Duo

About this tool

Step 1. Identify ways to create shared meaning

Step 2. Evaluate your communication skills

Step 3. Plan to develop your communication skills

TOOL 8. Managing Interpersonal Conflict

Community Example: Shouting Match

About this tool

Step 1. Reflect on your skills at managing conflict

Step 2. Plan to gain skills in managing conflict

TOOL 9. Building Social Capital Across Cultures

Community Example: Diversity Day

About this tool

Step 1. Acknowledge differences in culture

Step 2. Frame differences as assets

Step 3. Create opportunities for people of different cultures to interact

Step 4. Pay attention to power dynamics

Step 5. Establish healthy patterns of negotiation and conflict management

Step 6. Find common goals

Step 7. Continually build and rebuild trust

TOOL 10. Mapping Your Social Capital

Community Example: Pro-Bond Committee

About this tool

Option A: Individual exercise

Option B: Group exercise

PART FOUR – Tools for Mobilizing Resources

TOOL 11. Analyzing Stakeholders

Community Example: Mobilizing Support for a Community Center

About this tool

Step 1. State the key outcome of your proposed project

Step 2. List stakeholders

Step 3. Assess each stakeholder’s attitude toward the outcome

Step 4. Identify each stakeholder’s power relative to the project

Step 5. Determine linkages

Step 6. Fill out the Power and Attitude Grid

Step 7. Decide how you will deal with each set of stakeholders

TOOL 12. Building Coalitions

Community Example: Creating a Coalition

About this tool

Step 1. Be sure that you need a coalition

Step 2. Decide who to recruit

Step 3. Recruit members

Step 4. Hold the first organizational meeting

Step 5. Follow up

Step 6. Keep the coalition going

TOOL 13. Building Effective Community Teams

Community Example: Hiring Committee

About this tool

Stage 1: Mission and talent

Stage 2: Norms and buy-in

Stage 3: Power and morale

TOOL 14. Recruiting and Sustaining Volunteers

Community Example: Citizen of the Year

About this tool

Step 1. Create a volunteer job description

Step 2. Find and recruit volunteers

Step 3. Keep volunteers on the job

Appendixes

Index

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