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Leadership, Organizing and Action: Organizing Workshop Participant Guide

Leading Change Network

  • Type

    Guides and slides

  • Region

    Global

  • Practice

    Coaching, Public narrative, Relationship building, Team structure, Strategy, Action

  • Language

    English

Use this guide to learn the five basic organizing leadership practices includes templates and worksheets.

Table of Contents

  • Why we’re here & workshop goals
  • Personal goals
  • People, power, and change
  • Coaching as a leadership practice
  • Introduction to public narrative & story of self
  • Building power through relationships
  • Building leadership teams
  • Introduction to story of us
  • Strategy
  • Shared measurable action
  • Introduction to story of now
  • Putting it all together: linking public narrative
  • Appendix
  • More on coaching as a leadership practice

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