Essential Skills in a Networked World
ISBN: 9781764307734: 136p, 6″x9″, paperback, RRP $35.50
ISBN: 9781764307741: ebook
How do we build community groups to manage and complete projects when we struggle to get committee members and volunteers? Would more flexibility help by allowing for people’s busy lives and competing interests?
Drawing on extensive research and professional experience in communication and marketing across business and non-profit sectors, Gayle Dallaston explored how to form productive groups and networks to change our world.
Garden on the Verge: A New Approach, her first book, showed how government and citizens can work together to create more sustainable cities and communities.
In this book, you’ll find insights and practical skills that build on that alignment to create opportunities for innovative and collaborative projects with diverse participants and interconnecting networks.
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Reviews
"Essential Skills in a Networked World is a deeply necessary and helpful book for these times when so many are looking for ways to join with others to initiate grassroots change. Packed with wisdom and experience, this book offers analysis, insight and strategies for launching community projects and then keeping them on track and intact. Engagingly written by an author well versed in navigating complex problems and community initiatives, this comprehensive handbook is a great boon for anyone who leads, or is a part of, a group project. From now on, this will be my go-to bible for all my community interactions." - Dr Sally Gillespie, author of Climate Crisis and Consciousness: Re-imagining our world and ourselves
Table of Contents
Introduction
PART 1 - Setting The Stage
Chapter 1 - The Promise of Collaboration
Chapter 2 - A Networked World
PART 2 - How: A New Way of Doing
Chapter 3 - Agree on a Shared Place and Purpose
Chapter 4 - Recognise Your Assets; Start with What You’ve Got
Chapter 5 - Plan to Thrive in An Uncertain World
Chapter 6 - Leverage and Communicate
Chapter 7 - Maintain Discipline and Momentum
Conclusion
Notes
Index