Building Leadership:
Outline with Links to Tools for Building Leadership
- Become engaged as a community leader.
Chapter 14, Section 1: Learning How to Be a Community Leader- Develop and communicate a personal vision.
Chapter 14, Section 2: Developing and Communicating a Vision - Indicate how will you listen to people.
Chapter 14, Section 4: Understanding People's Needs - How will you take responsibility for your community?
- Set goals.
- How will you serve individuals in the group?
Chapter 14, Section 7: Building and Sustaining Relationships - How will you serve the group as a whole?
- Propose specific changes in how you will lead others.
- How you will get the work done?
- How will you recruit and prepare others to become leaders?
Chapter 13, Section 1: Developing a Plan for Building Leadership
Chapter 13, Section 5: Developing a Community Leadership Corps: A Model for Service-Learning
- Develop and communicate a personal vision.
- Assess your own competence in core tasks of leadership, and plan for improvement. Consider your ability for each task and how you will enhance your own competency in each of the nine core tasks:
Chapter 14, Section 1: Learning How to Be a Community Leader - Envisioning goals
- Affirming values
- Motivating
- Managing
- Achieving workable unity
- Explaining
- Serving as a symbol
- Representing the group
- Renewing
- Assess your group's competence in core tasks of leadership and plan for improvement. Consider abilities of the group's leaders and members for each of the eight core tasks below and note how your group's competence will be enhanced in:
Chapter 13, Section 1: Developing a Plan for Building Leadership
Chapter 13, Section 4: Building Teams: Broadening the Base for Leadership- Envisioning goals
- Affirming values
- Motivating
- Managing
- Achieving workable unity
- Explaining
- Serving as a symbol
- Representing the group
- Envision the leadership of the group.
Chapter 13, Section 1: Developing a Plan for Building Leadership
Chapter 13, Section 5: Developing a Community Leadership Corps: A Model for Service-Learning
- Identify the core tasks of leadership needed for this work (e.g., your project)
- Indicate how many leaders are needed (or wanted) on the team
- Specify what skills that need for this work.
- Indicate who needs to be included to reflect the community and its interests.
- Describe how the leadership team will support one another and what additional supports are available to them.
- Indicate what commitment there is to working together in common purpose.
- Set leadership development goals for the group and its members.
Chapter 13, Section 1: Developing a Plan for Building Leadership
Chapter 13, Section 4: Building Teams: Broadening the Base for Leadership
- Indicate the strengths of the group, noting what should be enhanced.
- Indicate gaps between the current situation and the ideal team, and how these will be addressed through recruitment or development.
- Based on differences between the leadership team and those served, indicate in what ways, if any, that diversity of the team should be enhanced.
- Indicate specific goals for leadership development and priorities to be addressed.
- Select methods for developing leadership. Indicate how you (your group) will:
Chapter 13, Section 1: Developing a Plan for Building Leadership - Teach as you lead through modeling.
- Arrange workshops and training.
Chapter 12, Section 2: Designing a Training Session
Chapter 12, Section 3: Delivering a Training Session
Chapter 12, Section 4: Conducting a Workshop - Provide access to more experienced mentors or coaches.
Chapter 13, Section 9: Choosing a Consultant - Form learning networks and leadership support groups.
Chapter 15, Section 3: Providing Support for Staff and Volunteers - Use retreats to reflect on the work and to restore members for continuing the work.
Chapter 12, Section 7: Organizing a Retreat - Recruit new people to lead. Indicate how you (your group) willl:
Chapter 7, Section 1: Developing a Plan for Increasing Participation in Community Action
Chapter 13, Section 1: Developing a Plan for Building Leadership - Attract new members to serve as leaders of the group.
- Determine together how they will be involved.
- Enhance diversity or abilities, experience, relationships, and cultural competence in the team.
Chapter 7, Section 2: Promoting Participation Among Diverse Groups - Prepare new generations of leadership for this work.
Chapter 13, Section 7: Encouraging Leadership Development Across the Lifespan - Enhance collaboration within and across groups. Consider how you will:
Chapter 5, Section 5: Coalition Building I: Starting a Coalition
Chapter 7, Section 2: Promoting Participation Among Diverse Groups
Chapter 13, Section 11: Collaborative Leadership
Chapter 13, Section 12: Leading Collaboratively: Leadership as a Collaborative Enterprise - Serve as a catalyst of change.
- Lead the process, not the people.
- Know the leadership context.
- Facilitate the work among partners
- Motivate.
- Be flexible and persistent.
- Distribute credit.
- Promote leadership as service. Consider how you will encourage group members to:
Chapter 13, Section 2: Servant Leadership: Accepting and Maintaining the Call of Service
Chapter 13, Section 5: Developing a Community Leadership Corps: A Model for Service-Learning - Act as one among equals.
- Use power legitimately.
- Do the necessary work.
- Listen to and care for those served.
- Start where people are.
- Challenge others.
- Adapt to fit the situation.
- Inspire others to answer the call of service.
- Promote adaptation to new situations. Consider how you will:
Chapter 19, Section 4: Adapting Community Interventions for Different Cultures and Communities
Chapter 16, Section 2: Developing Facilitation Skills - Identify the adaptive challenge.
- Keep the level of stress within a tolerable range.
- Focus attention on ripening issues.
- Give the work back to the people.
Chapter 18, Section 2: Participatory Approaches to Planning Community Interventions - Protect the voices of leadership without authority.
- Indicate how you will build a great group with strong leadership. Communicate how you will:
Chapter 13, Section 1: Developing a Plan for Building Leadership
Chapter 13, Section 4: Building Teams: Broadening the Base for Leadership - Find and attract talented people.
- Create a situation in which people can apply their talents.
- Get great projects in which people can work together.
- Assure that the right people are in the right jobs.
- Protect members from distractions and demands of the broader environment.
- Build bridges to those people and resources that can help.
- Prompt reflection on the meaning of the work.
- Maintain a climate of optimism in the group..
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