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Creative Capacity Building for Coalitions
Program SharingOctober 13, 2010
MN Regional Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drug (ATOD) Prevention Coordinators
We cannot do this work alone.
Our most successful efforts come from
the combined strengths of
coalitions members, partners, and supporters.
Welcome! NameOrganizationBucket List Item
Connect to a network of amazing people!
Tools, ideas, and strategies to build capacity and create sustainability within a coalition.
When you’re operating out of LOVE and truly reaching out to the world, trying new things, living up to your potential – that’s when you’re most likely to get stuck, because you’re deeply challenging the status quo. - UnStuck by Keith Yamashita and Sandra Spataro
Moving Forward:
Transformational Leadership for Coalitions
Leadership Continuum
• Autocratic – totally in control, making all decisions oneself
• Managerial – concerned with the smooth operation, rather then the goals and effectiveness of the organization
• Democratic – consulting with others, encouraging equality within the organization but making the final decision oneself
• Collaborative – sharing leadership, involving others in all major decisions, spreading ownership
Collaborative or Transformational Leadership
Effective coalition leadership requires a collection of person qualities and skill that are typically not found in one individual, but rather in a group of committed leaders who have grassroots community support.
Self Assessment
Traits of Transformational Leaders
• Let go of things others can do• Encourage initiative, ideas and risk taking• Ensure people have goals and know how they
are doing• Delegate to challenge, develop and empower• Coach to ensure success• Reinforce good work and good attempts
Traits of Transformation Leaders Continued
• Share information, knowledge and skills• Value, trust and respect each individual• Provide support without taking over• Practice what they preach
Quotes• If your actions inspire others to
dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
-John Quincy Adams
• I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
-Ralph Nader
Leadership for You and
Organizations: Strength Finder
What does is take to be a leader?
Strengths?
What are they?
Strengthsfinder 2.0
• Tom Rath• 40 years of research to discover the
top 34 strengths• Assessment to identify your top 5
strengths• Action Guide-includes action steps
on improving your strength
Focusing on Strengths“At its fundamentally flawed core, the aim of almost any
learning program is to help us become who we are not…From cradle to cubicle, we devote more time to our shortcomings than to our strengths,” (Rath, 3).
“Across the board, having the opportunity to develop our strengths is more important to success than our role, our title, or even our pay,” (Rath, 11)….
TALENT
INVESTMENT
STRENGTHRath, pg. 20
Do you know your top strengths?
• Gallup has polled over 10 million people worldwide on employee engagement:
– Only one-third strongly agree that “At work, I have the opportunity to do what I do best everyday.”
– People who do get to focus on their strengths everyday are 6x as likely to be engaged in their jobs and more than 3x as likely to report having an excellent quality of life in general.
• Additionally, having someone or a supportive team that focuses on your strengths can make a dramatic difference.
(Rath, iii)
The problem is that most people don’t get the opportunity to focus on their
strengths!
Strengthening Teams• Just as effective leaders know and leverage their individual
strengths, effective teams can do the same.
• Expanding on their original work, Rath and Conchie have identified four domains of leadership strength that your individual strengths fit within:
– Executing– Influencing–Relationship Building– Strategic Thinking
Strength-Based Leadership, Rath & Cochie, 2008
Four Domains of Strengths• Executing: Striving, Making things happen
• Influencing: Impacting, Connecting others to an idea
• Relationship Building: Relating, Creating groups that are more than the sum of individuals
• Strategic Thinking: Focusing on what could be
Although individual leaders may not have strengths in all of these domains, strong teams should leverage contributions from all four domains.
Executing /Striving
•Achiever
•Arranger
•Belief
•Consistency
•Deliberative
•Discipline
•Focus
•Responsibility
•Restorative
Influencing/ Impacting
•Activator
•Command
•Communication
•Competition
•Maximizer
•Self-Assurance
•Significance
•Woo
Relationship Building / Relating
•Adaptability
•Developer
•Connectedness
•Empathy
•Harmony
•Includer
•Individualization
•Positivity
•Relator
Strategic Thinking / Thinking
•Analytical
•Context
•Futuristic
•Ideation
•Input
•Intellection
•Learner
•Strategic
Strengths of the four Domains
Leadership
Wellness
Strengths
Creating a strong team: Shared Values
Who are you?
Think about something you want in your life, who you want to be, or a goal you want to accomplish.
Create a nametag to describe you: “Transformational Woman Laura ” or “Globetrottin’ Diane” or “Urban Farmer Andy”
Intentions
Goals
What are your values?
Where do our values come from?
How can we help instill values in others?
A picture is worth a thousand words! Pryckistulin
What percentage of the time are you true to your values?
25%
25%
25%
25%1. Absolutely all the time, 100%
2. Most of the time, 75-90 %
3. Sometimes, 50%
4. Working on that area, 20-30 %
0
55
Do you ever make promises you can’t keep?
20%
20%
20%
20%
20% 1. Never. I don’t make promises.2. Never, I keep my promises. 3. It happens, I’m human. 4. Every now and then.5. Yes, why should I keep a promise?
0
55
What happens to a coalition when the members don’t have shared values?
20%
20%
20%
20%
20%1. Chaos, Confusion, Conundrums
2. Disengagement and Disagreements
3. Angry or Absent members
4. Happy and Helpful members
5. Nothing
0
55
What happens with a coalition has shared values and a shared vision?
20%
20%
20%
20%
20%1. Happy and Helpful members
2. Goals are accomplished
3. Community organizations will also support the coalition
4. We can start to solve the problems of the world
5. Tons of great things, all of the above 0
55
How to make this last:
Sustainability
3 Basic Sustainability Guides
Ask for what you needRight Person,Right Attitude,Right ToolsThink Big – aim high. Don’t give up on
dreams and goals
How does your organization do this?
What are some common sources of funding?
Funding for prevention efforts can be very important.
MN DHS- ADAD Planning & Implementation Grants
Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grants (SPF-SIG)
Drug Free Communities Grant
McKnight FoundationRobert Wood Johnson Foundation
NIH tool for funding data, products and research info. Check out this website: http://projectreporter.nih.gov/reporter.cfm
Local FoundationsInitiative FoundationNorthland FoundationBlandin FoundationMcKight Foundation
Catalyst Mini tobacco prevention grants
MDH Tobacco Prevention GrantsMDH State Health Improvement Plan –Tobacco Free Campuses
DoSomething.org OrganizationsBlue Cross Blue ShieldDryer’s
“True sustainability does not come from a grant application every few years-it grows from a strategic orientation to your coalition’s work and ongoing attention to the building blocks that make up our coalition’s vitality and viability.” –CADCA
or in an other word
“Leadership”
Recognition IdeasBirthday Cards mailed to membersCelebrate one thing (minimum) at every coalition meeting
Did you get a new grant, pass an ordinance, have a successful after-school program, new members join, try something new?
Awards: Partner and Member of the Month {Step Up to The Plate Award in Chisholm}
Host special semi-annual or annual meeting to celebrate successDuring regular meetings acknowledge activity was successful because of
the leadership and hardwork of the coalitionSend a personal email, a card, or make a phone call to say thank you and encourage leadership development. Free t-shirt or item with coalition name / logo on itCelebration BoardPost success stories on facebook, Linked in, websites, blogs and newsletters.Treat them to a coffee or tea sometime, take time for conversationFramed photo or small album of pictures of work person has been involved inGive a greater role to outstanding people, help others to be leaders
Celebrate and Acknowledge
Success
Sharing events, helpful
resources, and ways
to be involved
309 people are connecting to the coalition via facebook!
http://champforwc.org/
Think of partnering with
other organizations
and coalitions like a
‘Mutual Aid Agreement’
Recommended Resources:
Great Meetings, Great Results : A practical guide for facilitating successful, productive meetingsBy Dee Kesley and Pam Plumb
UnStuck By Keith Yamashita and Sandra Spataro
Community Anti-Drug Coalition of America www.cadca.org
The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
Relationship
s
•Take the time to get to know people
•Interests, Strengths, Values
Hard Work
•It is worth it!•True leaders help others to lead
Perseverance
•What will happen if you try one more time ?
•Dream Big!
What does this all boil down to?
THANK YOU!We are here to help you. Feel free to contact us for help with your prevention efforts.
Thank You! to our grant funder
and host sites!
• The RPCs are funded though a grant by the MN Department of Human Services – Alcohol and Drug Abuse Division
• Polk County Public Health• Carlton-Cook-Lake-St Louis
Community Health Board• Clay County Public Health• Community Partnership
with Youth & Families• Project Turnabout• Parenting Resource Center