Introduction: getting the most from this book -- Insights from the blandin community leadership program -- Community leadership comes with a job description -- Community leadership is not rocket science! -- What youll find in this book -- Who can use this book -- How to use this book -- Three core competencies for community leadership -- Framing ideas -- How influences what -- Framing is complex -- Framing creates focus -- Building and using social capital -- 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 -- Tools for framing ideas -- Tool 1. Identifying community assets -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Follow up on your research -- Tool 4. Doing appreciative inquiry -- 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 -- 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 vi.
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