Jim Krile, Ph'D'

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Jim Krile, Ph.D.

• The Rural Pulse
• A Leadership View
• A Leadership Response

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Why Take the Pulse?

• To give voice to rural issues.
• To help guide Blandin Foundation efforts.
• To provide a benchmark for change in rural
  Minnesota.

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Who Responded?

• Statewide
• 3,712 alums contacted,
• 1,690 (46) responded.

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Who Responded?
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Who Responded?
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What Did They Say?

• The most critical issue my community
• has to face in the next 3-5 years.
• Statewide
• Rank Issue
• 1 Retaining businesses that pay household
  
  supporting wages.
• 2 Having high quality K-12 education.
• 3 Addressing the increasing cost of health
  care and insurance.
• 4 Attracting businesses that pay household
  supporting wages.
• 5 Having health care accessible to my
  community.

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What Did They Say?

• Issues I feel most strongly that my
• community needs to address.
• Statewide
• Attracting businesses that pay household
  
  supporting wages (52).
• Having high quality K-12 education (34).
• Retaining businesses that pay household
  supporting wages (26).
• Reducing illegal drug use (26).
• Addressing the increasing cost of health care and
  insurance (25).

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What Did They Say?

• If you could focus on only one
• issue as a community leader,
• what would it be?
• Statewide
• 1 Business Development which includes
• Increasing economic diversity
• Retaining businesses
• Increasing funding for economic development
• More high speed internet

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What Did They Say?

• How would you rate the overall quality of life in
  your community today?

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What Did They Say?

• Compare the overall quality of life in your
  community now to what it was like 5 years ago.

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What Did They Say?

• Would you recommend your community to someone
  else as a good place to live?

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What Did They Say?

• How difficult is it for employers to find
  qualified workers to fill available jobs in your
  community?

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What Did They Say?

• There is healthy diversity in the economy of my
  community.

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What Did They Say?

• My community has an adequate number of jobs that
  pay household supporting wages.

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What Did They Say?

• My community recognizes diversity as a strength.

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What Did They Say?

• My community is genuinely welcoming to people of
  diverse backgrounds.

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What Did They Say?

• Political conflict in my community is generally
  handled in a healthy way.

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Core Community Leadership Competencies
Framing
Mobilization
Healthy Community
Social Capital
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Leadership Response

• Framing
• What is important to deal with.
• Why it is important to deal with it.
• How to deal with it.

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Leadership Response

• Framing
• You give power to what you give attention to.

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Leadership Response

• Social Capital
• Developing and maintaining relationships that
  allow us to work together and share resources
  across our differences.

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Leadership Response

• Mobilization
• Engaging a critical mass of people and resources
  in taking action to achieve a specific outcome or
  outcomes.

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Leadership Response

• If you think you can or you think you cant you
  are probably right.
• - Mark Twain

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