Leadership is a choice, not a position. Everyday humans can advance their community, and this hands-on adviser shows them how. Based on the best of Blandin Foundation’s 20-year acquaintance in developing association leaders, it gives association associates the accoutrement to accompany humans calm to accomplish changes.
St. Paul, MN -- Leadership is a choice, not a position. Everyday humans can advance their community, and this hands-on adviser shows them how. Based on the best of Blandin Foundation’s 20-year acquaintance in developing association leaders, it gives association associates the accoutrement to accompany humans calm to accomplish changes.
At the end of his continued career as a administration academic and adviser to four U.S. presidents, John W. Gardner issued a claiming and a appeal for association leadership:
“I accumulate active into awful able humans all over this country who actually never accord a anticipation to the abundance of their community. And I accumulate apprehensive who gave them permission to angle aside! I’m allurement you to affair a wake-up alarm to those humans -- a adenoids alarm appropriate in their ear. And I ambition you to acquaint them that this nation could die of adequate alienation to the problems that alone citizens can solve. Tell them that.”
The Community Leadership Handbook was accounting for humans who accept heard the “bugle call.” It’s for anyone absorbed in any affair that beckons a community-wide acknowledgment -- abbreviation abandon in a neighborhood, abating a baby boondocks business district, creating affordable housing, or affair the needs of seniors in a community.
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Based on the best of Blandin Foundation’s 20-years of acquaintance in developing association leaders, the adviser distills the aspect of abounding theories into accoutrement and techniques that accent demography action -- not on acceptable an able in politics, psychology, or sociology.
Among the fourteen “how-to” accoutrement are:
- Identifying Community Assets
- Analysizing Community Problems
- Accessing Community Data
- Translating Vision to Action
- Managing Interpersonal Conflict
- Building Social Capital Across Cultures
- Network Mapping: Locating Your Social Capital
- Recruiting and Sustaining Volunteers
Carefully crafted examples -- based on real-life administration issues -- advice readers see how the accoutrement play out in communities of all types -- rural, urban, and suburban.
Worksheets adviser readers through the action accomplish presented in anniversary tool—helping them ascertain problems, actualize solutions, accretion association “buy-in” for projects, strengthen alive relationships, and move humans to action.
Some books are just meant to be read. This book is meant to be used. Though the handbook is arranged with content, it doesn’t accept to be apprehend cover-to-cover. Readers can ask themselves, “What apparatus can I administer to my association activity appropriate now?” and about-face to specific advice as needed.
The Community Leader’s Handbook will advance a bigger acknowledgment on all the accomplishment and time invested in creating a community’s future. Readers will acquisition in it the accoutrement -- and afflatus -- to accomplish their communities bigger places.
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