Building on what is strong
Asset-based community development (ABCD).
- Level
- Bitesize
- Learning time
- 1 hour 30 minutes
- Where
- Working with Communities and Partnerships
- Price
- £39
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Certificate of Completion
Overview and Outcomes.
Overview
Most public service starts from what a place lacks. This module starts from what is already strong, using John McKnight and John Kretzmann's five building blocks of asset-based community development, the difference between asset mapping and stakeholder mapping, French and Raven's bases of power, four models of community leadership and Cormac Russell's account of what an asset-based leader does. It helps you work with a community rather than on it. Most community strategies are produced with real energy and end up as wish lists. This module sets out what turns ambition into delivery: a co-owned vision, a few priorities, a named delivery mechanism and a review cycle. It introduces the Centre for Local Economic Strategies' five pillars of community wealth building and the role of anchor institutions, and examines the Preston Model, including what transfers to other places.
What you'll develop
In this Bitesize, you will develop the ability to:
- Apply McKnight and Kretzmann's five building blocks to map the assets already present in a place, and distinguish this from stakeholder mapping.
- Identify positional, natural, connector and emergent leaders and explain why referent power is often the strongest influence in a community.
- Assess your own practice against the behaviours of an asset-based leader, including convening rather than delivering and stepping back on purpose.
- Distinguish a wish list from a delivered community strategy using the four requirements of shared vision, narrow priorities, a named delivery mechanism and a review cycle.
- Explain the five pillars of community wealth building and how anchor institutions use procurement and employment as levers.
The Modules.
1 hour 30 minutes of learning.
- 03Asset-Based Community Development and Community LeadershipMost public service starts from what a place lacks. This module starts from what is already strong, using John McKnight and John Kretzmann's five building blocks of asset-based community development, the difference between asset mapping and stakeholder mapping, French and Raven's bases of power, four models of community leadership and Cormac Russell's account of what an asset-based leader does. It helps you work with a community rather than on it.40 min
- 04Community Strategies in Practice: Achieving AmbitionsMost community strategies are produced with real energy and end up as wish lists. This module sets out what turns ambition into delivery: a co-owned vision, a few priorities, a named delivery mechanism and a review cycle. It introduces the Centre for Local Economic Strategies' five pillars of community wealth building and the role of anchor institutions, and examines the Preston Model, including what transfers to other places.41 min
Keep going.
Part of the Working with Communities and Partnerships topic, also sold whole as Common cause.
Go deeper, and pay only the difference
- You are hereBitesize, 1 hour 30 minutes, £39
- Next stepFocus, Communities first, 2 hours 30 minutes, £69. Already own the Bitesize? You pay £30.
- The whole topicExplore, Common cause, 6 hours, £129. Already own the Bitesize? You pay £90.
When you step up to a higher level, what you paid in the last 12 months for lower-level courses inside the bigger course comes off its price, in proportion to how much of each is inside it, whichever topic it's from. Courses at the same or a lower level don't give credit against each other. A Focus course or above always costs at least £15. Prices per person. Read the full terms
Also part of: Serving your community well, Your first days in office, Stronger together
Other Bitesize in the Working with Communities and Partnerships topic
- Rungs of real influenceCommunity and the Participation Ladder1 hour 30 minutes£39
- Better togetherPartnership working and collaborative leadership1 hour 30 minutes£39
- Making it work across boundariesCo-production and cross-organisational working1 hour 15 minutes£39
- Partnership in the real worldCommunity and partnership case studies30 minutes£39
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