Community Voices Leadership Development for Public Decision Making

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Welcome
2004 CYFAR CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS
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Community Voices Leadership Training for
Community Development

Community Voices Community Voices is a program
about developing groups of leaders who want to
make a difference in their communities.
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Community Voices Leadership Program Training
Modules

• Group Leadership
• Seeing Our Community
• Identifying Community Problem, Needs and
  Resources
• Working Together to Improve Communication Skills
• Making Decisions and Keeping Our Group Strong
• Reaching Our Vision, Step By Step

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Community Voices Session Format

• Overview
• Skill Work
• Follow Through
• Closing

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I. Overview

• Review Participants review what was
  learned in the last session.
• Bridge You make a connection between
  what was learned in the last session and
  what will be learned in this session.
• Introduction Explain the skills and
  activities of the session.

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II. Skill Work

• The main part of the session
• This is where the group will learn new skills
  through
• Exercise
• Activities
• Discussion
• Practice

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III. Follow Through

• Helps participants practice or think about what
  they learned after leaving the session.
• Exercise or activity for the group to do before
  they get back together.
• Provide skill practice and encourage the
  participants to see how these skill can be used
  at home, at work or with other groups.

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IV. Closing(It is very important to formally
close each session)

• Time for participants to step back and think
  about what they have learned.
• Think about what has been meaningful to them.
• Time for participants to talk together as a
  group.
• Preview next session

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Community Voices Session Format

• Overview
• Skill Work
• Follow Through
• Closing

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Review of Community Voices Video Tape
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Community Voice Leadership Training Program Module

• Group Leadership

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Group Leadership How Can We Get To Know Our
Group?

• Purpose
• Learn more about each other
• Learn the strengths of the group

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Activity
Interviewing
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Interview Questions

• 1) What is your name?
• 2)Where are you from?
• 3) What group or groups do you work with in
  your community?
• 4) What is the one thing that you do best?

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Summary - We Learned That

• Interviewing is a way of gathering information
• One person can do one or a few things well
• As a group we can do many things well

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Group Leadership How Can Group Work Together To
Solve Problem

• Purpose
• To get you thinking more about leadership and how
  it works

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Activity
We will do two short role plays authoritarian
leadership, and shared group leadership.
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Summary We learned that

• Community problem are not solved with the ideas
  of one person.
• Community problems are solved by groups working
  together.
• We have to listen to each other.
• We have to value each other ideas skills.

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Group Leadership Where Do Leaders Stand?

• Purpose
• To give you a chance to see different kinds of
  leaders and how they work with groups.

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Activity

• Autocratic Leader
• Leader who tells people what to do and never
  listens to their ideas.
• Leader acts like a king or queen.
• Leader who is out of touch with the people.
• Leader who dont know what people in your
  community are thinking and dont try to find out.

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Activity Cont.

• Leader chosen by outsider
• No support in community and you only want to
  please the outsiders who made you the leader.
• Self- Appointed
• You decided that you wanted to be the leader.

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Activity Cont.

• Leader who leads from within.
• Listens to and works with everyone in the group.
• You are a part of the group.

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Summary - We learned that

• Leading from within the group, works in
  communities.
• Group leadership works because everyone
  participates.
• Each person is important.
• Each person has something to contribute.

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Community Voice Leadership Program Training
Modules

• Group Leadership

• Seeing Our Community

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A Little Story This is a story about four
people named Everybody, Somebody,Anybody and
Nobody. There was an important job to be done
and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it.
Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it.
Somebody got angry about that because it was
Everybodys job. Everybody thought Anybody could
do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody
wouldnt do it. It ended up that Everybody
blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody
could have done.
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What do Leaders Do?
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Seeing Our CommunityWhat Are Our Leadership
Skills?

• Purpose
• In this exercise we will see that as individuals
  and as a group, we already have many important
  leadership skills.
• We will see how each of us contributes different
  skills to makes our group stronger.

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Summary

• You can see from this list that leaders need to
  do all kinds of things and have many different
  kinds of skills.
• Community leaders just dont tell people what to
  do.
• Communities improve because community leaders
  get people working together on problems they
  share.

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Activity

• Using the information from the interview, make
  a list of leadership skills.
• Have each person go to the list and check the
  leadership skills they can already do.

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Summary - We Learned That

• Working together we possess many leadership
  skills.
• Leaders do not need to have all the skills
  themselves.
• Leaders can use the skills of others in the
  group.
• What new skills are needed.

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Seeing Our Community Cont.How Do We See Our
Community Today?

• Purpose
• To take a look at and describe our community as
  it is today. Getting ideas from the whole group
  we will get a good picture of both the strengths
  of our community and what needs to be improved.

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Visioning (exercise)
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Activity

• Give Everyone A Piece of paper and a Marker
• Have everyone to draw whats good about their
  community and what needs to improved.
• Each participant explore their thoughts, the good
  first, then, what needs to be improved.

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Summary

• We have highlighted what is good in our community
  and what needs to be improved.
• We will have a list of problems or concerns that
  we can use later.

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Community Voice Leadership Training Program
Modules

• Group Leadership
• Seeing Our Community

• Identifying Community Problem,
• Needs and Resources

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Identifying Community Problems, Needs and
ResourcesWhy Do We Need More Information?

• Purpose
• We have a lot of problems that need to be
  considered, and there are some tools and skills
  we need to help us come up with good solutions.
  The first thing we need to know is where to get
  information, and why it is important.

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Activity

• Doctor and Patient Role Play

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Summary

• When confronted with a problem, research the
  problem and think about the information then,
  make your decision to solve it.
• In every walk of life, problem solving begins
  with asking questions and getting information
  about the situation.
• Only when you fully understand the problem, can
  you figure out the best way to solve it.

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Identifying Community Problems, Needs, and
Resources Cont.Where Can We Find Out
Information About Our Community?

• Purpose
• To make a general list of all sources of
  information that we can. This list will be a
  resource later as we work in your community.

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Activity Taking a look at your problem list

• Find out which agencies can help.
• Find out which organizations can help.
• Find out which City /County Officials can help.
• Find out which person(s) can help.

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Summary

• Too often people waste time and money because
  they dont have good information.
• You can not reach your goal or solve a community
  problem without the right information.

Information is Power
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Community Voice Leadership Training Program Module

• Group Leadership
• Seeing Our Community
• Identifying Community Problem, Needs and Resources

• Working Together to Improve Communication Skills

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Working Together Improving Communication
SkillsHow to Work Together to Remove Barriers

• Purpose
• Working together is essential if you want to
  reach the goals outlined in your vision. Every
  group will encounter barriers in its chosen
  path.
• You will understand the importance of
  communication within a group.

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Activity In this activity, you have to break
through barriers by working as a group.

• Barriers will be placed around the room.
• Each barrier will have a puzzle in it.
• Each of you will have a piece of the puzzle.
• The puzzle must be completed before you cross.
• NO talking at all, USE body language ONLY.

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Summary

• This exercise and discussion you just completed
  has emphasized an important message You possess
  more strength as a group than as individuals.
• Just as in real life, in this exercise you had to
  work together to be able to break down barriers.
  This exercise also emphasized that Everyone in
  the group has something to contribute to the
  groups success.
• This is similar to how groups work on real
  problems It takes the efforts of many people,
  and different people bring different strengths
  and resources to the group.

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Summary Cont.

• In this exercise, you were only allowed to use
  non-verbal communication (communicating without
  words) because this is something we do all the
  time.

• The reason you were asked to work in silence was
  to drive the point home that all types of
  communications (verbal and non-verbal) is very
  important when working together to accomplish a
  task.

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Working Together To Improve Communication
SkillsWhat Makes Effective Communication

• Purpose
• We must have good communication skills if we
  are going to reach out to others in the community.

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Activity

• A message giver will describe a drawing to you.
  You are to listen to the instructions and draw
  what is described as accurately as you can.
• You may ask no questions and must keep silent.
  The message giver will be to your rear.
• We will do the same thing again except you will
  face the message giver and can ask questions.
• Compare the drawings.

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Summary

• This exercise also reminds us again of the
  importance of non-verbal communication.
• Communication is most effective and satisfying
  when it is two-way communication.
• People sometimes think that talking is all there
  is to communicating. But it is the EXCHANGE, or
  the give and take, between people that makes for
  effective communication.
• It really helps when both parties have a chance
  to clarify what they are saying, and ask
  questions about what they are hearing. The
  listeners role is as important as the speakers.

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Working Together to Improve Communication
SkillsEffective Listening Skills

• Purpose
• To demonstrate the different kinds of listening,
  and how the listeners attitude can affect
  communication.

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Activity

• Demonstration and Discussion of
• Inconsiderate Listening
• Insensitive Listeners
• Secret Agenda Listening
• Effective Listening

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Summary

• In the role plays, we will see different styles
  of listening and how they affect communications.
• We will see that everyone communicates in two
  ways - with their words (verbal) and with their
  body language (non-verbal). We need to be aware
  of both.
• Non-verbal clues often tell us how the person is
  really feeling.
• Listening well is an art and a skill. It is
  something we can learn to do better. Being aware
  of these techniques, we can improve our listening
  habits.
• Being a good listener will help us work better
  with community groups.

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Community Voice Leadership Training Program
Modules

• Group Leadership
• Seeing Our Community
• Identifying Community Problem, Needs and
  Resources
• Working Together to Improve Communication Skills

• Making Decisions and Keeping Our Group Strong

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Making Decisions and Keeping Our Group
StrongThe Ways Groups Make Decisions

• Purpose
• We will learn the ways groups make decisions
  and how these methods affect the feeling of the
  members of the group.

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Activity

• Demonstration and discussion of decision-making
  methods
• Decision by Authority
• Minority Control
• Majority Control
• Consensus

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Summary

• After demonstrating and discussing the
  different methods of coming to a decision, you
  will be able to compare their strengths and
  weakness, and understand the effects each methods
  has on the group.

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Community Voice Leadership Training Program Module

• Group Leadership
• Seeing Our Community
• Identifying Community Problem, Needs and
  Resources
• Working Together to Improve Communication Skills
• Making Decisions and Keeping Our Group Strong

• Reaching Our Vision, Step By Step

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Reaching Our Vision- Step By StepUnderstanding
the Six Steps to the Problem Solving Model

• Purpose
• Understanding this model or guide will help you
  solve community problems, and problems at your
  job, and your everyday life.

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Activity

• Take a look at the Problem Solving Model

Problem Solving Model Identifying the
Problem Investigating the Problem Determining
Solution to the Problem Make an Action Plan Take
Action Follow-up
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Activity Cont.

• Take a look at a video of another group solving
  their problem using the model, then discuss what
  they did in each step.
• Discuss how to go about choosing a community
  problem to work on first. Then select a
  community problem
• Make plans and investigate or find out
  information

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Activity Cont.

• Determine solution
• Who Can Help Us
• Who are the Powers to Be and how they affect
  the solution
• Make an action plan
• Take Action
• Follow-up

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Summary

• You have learned the six steps in the problem
  solving model.
• The model can be use in various situations
• Solving personal problems
• Solving household problems
• Solving problems at work.
• As Well As

Solving Community Problems
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Community Voices Community Voices is a program
about developing groups of leaders who want to
make a difference in their communities.
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You Can Make a Difference
Community Voices
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