Capacity building and leadership development Fresno 2018
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What does upper mgmt do to that inhibits leadership development
- Non profit way vs empowered freedom
- Aspiration is a tech support and tech leadership development
- Create space for decision making
- Leadership starts from the top down
- Does only management give success/leadership is a title where it's at
- mentor to teach wonder beyond the shore, not just how to build a boat
- people will forget what you said, but they won't forget how you made them feel
- trust
- transition from participant to facilitator/growing in program
- conflict mgmt
- impostor syndrome
- obsession of metrics rather than cultivating true leadership
- ambiguity tolerance
- balance between the need for academia and the need to lift community voices
- not tokenizing community leaders
- leaders need to be economically sustainable
- process of politicizing
- needing to meet people where we are
- quite leaders are important just like public speakers
- people feel unseen and unvalued and then disengaged
- mentorship is powerful if done right
Examples are opening doors, and help me understand why I'm qualified to open that door
- celebrity culture or star system in Community organizing spaces
- leaders lead by example and do the lowest work
- creative the collective vision and not imposing my personal vision, stepping back
What do I do to help foster leaders?
- socratic ideas -offer self as resource
- not impeding their awesomeness
- finding ways to help them talk
- letting space know idea is from other person, grateful
- giving options and not prescribing
- buy food, give rides
- supporting basic needs
- learning and teaching to ask for help "I don't know"
- knowing when to ask for help when leaders issues are beyond you
Next
- What leadership or organizing models
- Leadership is not a template lessons learned/things to avoid
- Decolonial/indigenous organizing models in colonized spaces
- Organizing models for gender inclusive patriarchy
- Re-energizing leaders when there is a loss
- Self care and how to avoid burnout