The Community Leadership Handbook: Framing Ideas, Building Relationships, and Mobilizing Resources / Edition 1

by James F. Krile

Overview

Tools for people seeking to improve their communities

This significant guide puts the tools of democracy into everyone’s hands. Based on the best of Blandin Foundation’s 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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780940069541
Publisher:	TURNER PUB CO
Publication date:	02/03/2006
Edition description:	Printing February ed.
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	8.40(w) x 10.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

 JAMES F. KRILE is the director of the Blandin Community Leadership Program (BCLP). Since 1985, over four thousand people have taken part in this program, which includes a five-day residential retreat and two follow-up workshops. In an independent evaluation of the program, John F. Jones, PhD, of the Universityof Denver Graduate School of Social Work described BCLP “as a model for training anywhere in the world.”

Editorial Reviews

Anyone working to improve their community will benefit from this handbook.” —DICK SENESE, Associate Dean for Community Vitality, Universityof Minnesota Extension Service

“Useful for an incredibly diverse mix of decision makers with a wide variety of education and background.” —DONI BLUMENSTOCK, Executive Director, American Leadership Forum – Mountain Valley (Sacramento Region) Chapter

“A wonderful service for all those seeking to improve the quality of life in their communities.” —VAUGHN L. GRISHAM, Director of the McLean Institute for Community Development and Professor of Sociology, The Universityof Mississippi

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