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The Introductory Level
for Community-Driven Consulting establishes the foundation for the rest of the
education program through a self-paced introduction to the concepts behind
Community-Driven work. The program combines reading, audio classes and Learning
Community participation to begin immersing consultants in the thinking behind
Community-Driven approaches. The following provides an overview of the Results
a consultant can expect from the Introductory Level Program, the Course
Content, and the Assignments.
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 Results
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Like everything at the Community-Driven
Institute, the Introductory Level Community-Driven Consulting Program is aimed
at having participants achieve specific results. Those results include outcomes
for the your clients, and outcomes for your consulting practice itself.
Client-related
Results:
- Consultants will be better able to
understand client issues and frustrations, by understanding why traditional
governance, planning, fundraising and other systems have created neither
community improvement nor organizational stability.
- Consultants will be able to begin aiming
client conversations in a more Community-Driven direction, by understanding how
different systems can align a client’s work to create more significant
community change.
- Consultants will have a network of
colleagues to share information with and learn from, as they begin sharing
Community-Driven concepts with their clients.
Practice-Building Results:
- Consultants will have an initial
understanding of how to apply Community-Driven logic to the business side of
their consulting practice, to enhance their sales and marketing by aiming at
client / community outcomes.
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Program Content |
The readings and audio
classes will provide program participants with introductory knowledge of the
following systems:
Overview:
Community-Driven Work
- How organizational systems such as
governance, planning, program development and sustainability can simultaneously
build strong organizations and strong communities.
Overview:
Community-Driven Governance and Planning
- How boards can govern by holding themselves
accountable for the end results their community receives.
- Defining what
matters most
- Putting what
matters into action
Overview:
Developing and Sustaining Community-Driven Programs
- Building programs to be strong and
sustainable from the inside out, while simultaneously building community
strength and sustainability.
Overview: Building
a Community-Driven Consulting Practice
- By tethering the consultant’s sales
& marketing to the client’s impact and outcomes in the community,
Community-Driven logic can increase your value, your fees, and the change your
consulting work creates in the world.
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Assignments |
The assignments below provide a comprehensive
overview of all aspects of Community-Driven Consulting. The combination of
these readings / audio classes, with the opportunities provided by the Learning
Community, will prepare consultants for the onsite, intensive Immersion Level
course for which these assignments are a pre-requisite.
Whether or not you move on to the Immersion
Level, these materials and the Learning Community will provide you with the
first steps towards transforming your practice, to aim your consulting work at
creating more community benefit for your clients.
Reading:
Books
Audio
Class
Reading:
Articles
The following articles can all be found at this
website.
Creating the Future
Governance
Developing and
Sustaining Strong, Engaged Programs
Reading: Libraries
In addition to the specific articles noted
above, we recommend you spend some time browsing our online libraries as well.
You will find the libraries here:
Reading: Blog
The following sections at
Hildy’s Blog, Creating the Future,
all focus on the philosophies and practical approaches at the heart of this
program. We recommend not only reading the posts in the following sections, but
subscribing to the blog, to receive ongoing notification of new posts.
Reading:
Newsletter
Lastly, if you are not already subscribed to our
monthly newsletter, please do so. In that newsletter, you will receive updates
on articles and other information regarding the Consultant Education Program -
including dates for the release of materials that are still pending per this
syllabus, and announcements of dates for the intensive, on-site Immersion Level
program.
If you are not already subscribed, you can do so
here.
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