Working effectively among community stakeholders.
Ways of working effectively with community stakeholders.
Skills development and using productivity tools and processes are essential to creating productive working relationships and working effectively with community stakeholders. Just because you possess the skills does not guarantee you will get the desired results. Community members need to expand their capacity to acquire skills.
There are many skills to teach; this list covers only a few. It would be overwhelming for people to learn them all in one go, and for you to manage the learning process. Studying the community’s ‘education ecosystem’ would be an excellent place to start looking for assistance.
Working effectively requires a focus on essential activities.
Not only are we creatures of habit, but we are also creatures of comfort and safety. Doing trivial tasks with little impact very well does not lead to good outcomes. Continuously repeating something you have learned to do well does not make you an expert; it makes you a robot.
Doing tasks unconnected to programs will eventually stress everyone to the breaking point.
- Lead with empathy, treat people like ‘family’, and focus on trust and respect.
- Check regularly to determine why you are doing what you are doing.
- Listen to the voice in your head that is pulling you toward new possibilities.
- Assess if your actions make a positive difference in people’s expectations.
- Ensure people are doing their best work without micromanaging.
- The most important traits to look for have nothing to do with skills.
Fortunately, there are ways in which the community can learn skills using a step-by-step approach. The starting point for this is to segment the people wanting to learn:
- Entrepreneurs and gazelles.
- High-potential community members.
- Business and non-profit organisation managers.
- Startups.
- Senior community leaders.
- Non-learners are people who want to maintain the status quo.
With new skills, community members will become more focused and capable of working effectively as their capacity to implement projects expands. They will likely find it easier and more natural to manage their activities. Improving their problem-solving and decision-making will go a long way toward accelerating community development. Innovation also becomes an essential by-product of learning new skills.
Know how to stay in control and remain quiet?
Imagine the end of an argument with unnecessary fights and conflicts. A fool won’t stop arguing until you bang your head or theirs. Value your time and energy.
Think about your future. It’s much better if you ignore an unthoughtful, dumb statement and the mouth that brought it out of a dumb mind. Stay free from such conversations and altercations.
Quotable Quotes
“Your real job as an Economic Gardener, at any level, is to make people think, take action, not do it for them so they can effectively work with community stakeholders “. Peter Sergeant
“Seeds have the power to preserve species, to enhance cultural and genetic diversity, to counter economic monopoly and to check the advance of conformity on all its many fronts”. Michael Pollen