Sustaining Your Work

Develop good leadership and group dynamics

Leadership

• Leadership Compass: Deepening Perceptions of Self and Others

  This downloadable workshop from Idealist on Campus is intended to help group members develop a deeper understanding of the way they work and to identify skills and weaknesses.

• Eight Characteristics of Leadership

  Leadership is the ability to motivate others to do something, believe something or act a certain way.This article from NP Action lists eight traits that are crucial to possess or develop if you are in a position of leadership.

• Resident Leadership

  The Annie E. Casey Foundation offers this resource which provides information to help community members, policymakers, nonprofits, and businesses promote meaningful resident participation in community leadership and decision making.

• Leading

  This resource provided by the organization Citizen Works has a resource that offers brief guidelines for modeling behavior of an effective leader.

Group Dynamics

• Building and Sustaining Relationships

  Your relationships with other people and groups in your community form the means to achieving your group's goals. This section of The Community Tool Box suggests ways in which you can create, improve, and sustain relationships with your group and within the community at large.

• Dialogue

  The United States National Park Service provides this resource that focuses on ways of promoting healthy dialogue among group members. If you are interested in exploring group dynamics and in enhancing the quality of everyone’s involvement with one another, you may find these suggestions to be helpful.

• Facilitating Dialogue

  This "recipe" for dialogue, provided by Group Process Consulting, serves as a starting point to facilitating dialogue among group members.

• PCP Dialogue Tool Box

  The Public Conversations Project offers this resource to help you develop more constructive ways for communicating and relating with group members. This resource focuses more on dialogue surrounding controversial issues, and as a method of resolving conflict.