Grassroots Leadership A Call to Action

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Grassroots Leadership A Call to Action!

• Leadership in Recovery Retreat
• October 7-9, 2008

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What makes a leader?

• To lead means to make go or to guide
• A leader - a person who has commanding
  authority or influence
• What do YOU think?
• Name five qualities

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Qualities of Leaders

• Leaders
• Must change and adapt
• Are equal partners
• Share power
• Work collaboratively
• Accomplish community vision
• Address the needs of followers

Helen Keller
Rosa Parks
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What makes a leader?

• Name some
• leaders
• who come to
• mind..

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The Challenge of Leadership

• Feelings of uncertainty
• Tough to make time for
• community issues
• Other challenges?

Nelson Mandela
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The Challenge of Leadership

• Ask yourself
• Am I paying enough attention to the values,
  culture and tone in the organization/community
  where Im involved?
• Am I doing all I can to bring out the best in
  others?
• Am I modeling the values I believe in?
• What other leadership actions should
• I be adding?

Mother Theresa
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The Challenge of Leadership

• Do I share in leadership
• roles?
• Am I developing my ability
• to work with others as a team
• leader and member?
• Am I a lifelong learner?

Mohandas Gandhi
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Citizen Leadership/Community Leadership

• Citizen leaders work at the grassroots
• Concerned about
• quality of life in their
• community
• Take ownership of
• problems and opportunities
• Help others to identify solutions
• Realize that people must gain from AND contribute
  to the problem solving process

Bob Kafka
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Community/Grassroots Leadership

• How to be empowering?
• No one has ALL the answers
• Most everyone wants to
• influence decisions
• Need to access information
• Enlarge the power base
• Give and accept power and
• responsibility
• Share knowledge and interests
• Share vision and goals

Dorthea Dix
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Community/Grassroots Leadership

• Seven steps to becoming a better citizen
• Be a team player
• Be courteous
• Act constructively
• Be a good sport
• Be conscientious
• Celebrate the success of others
• Believe in fairness

ask what you can do for your country. - JFK
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Community/Grassroots Leadership

• The process of working with a
• group to achieve mutual goals
• Leadership is the groups
• property
• Any individual may assume or
• acquire leadership
• There is a leader within us all!

Fannie Lou Hamer
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Community/Grassroots Leadership

• Build advocacy skills by DOING
• Build advocacy currency
• Community Support Program (CSP) Committees
• Advisory Boards
• Boards of Directors
• Advocacy Actions
• Political Activities
• More!

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Community/Grassroots LeadershipDeveloping a Plan
Step One

• To be successful we need
• 1. Community Vision - A clear vision of what we
  want to accomplish!
• Simply stated
• The issue to address
• The ability to envision
• what could be better
• The vision must be
• shared by members of the community

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Community/Grassroots LeadershipDeveloping a Plan
Step Two

• 2. Community Communication
• Your message
• Communicating
• your Community
• Vision
• How do you
• convince others that
• your vision is
• important?

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Community/Grassroots LeadershipDeveloping a Plan
Step Three

• 3. Community Collaboration
• A process of working with others
• Creating community ownership by involving
• the community in
• identifying issues and
• defining solutions and
• strategies

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Community/Grassroots LeadershipDeveloping a Plan
Step Four

• 4. Community Action
• A clear, concise plan
• How to make the
• Community Vision
• a reality
• People working
• together with
• energy and excitement!

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Community/Grassroots LeadershipDeveloping a Plan
Four Steps

• 1. Community Vision - A clear vision of what we
  want to accomplish!
• 2. Community Communication - Your message that
  Communicates the Community Vision
• 3. Community Collaboration - A process of working
  with others
• 4. Community Action - A clear, concise plan of
  how to make the Community Vision a reality

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Grassroots Leadership A Call to Action!

• Time to roll up our sleeves and get to work