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The Art of Leadership and Community Building

Caitlin KerriganA Changing World: Sifting Through the ClutterFebruary 23, 2013

+Let’s start with a Game/Activity

Common GroundRock-Paper-Scissor Champions

+Reflection

How was the activity? What did you notice about this game?

+Defining Leadership

What does Leadership mean to you? Take a minute and discuss with a partner how you

define leadership? Questions to Consider…

What is leadership? Do you consider yourself a leader? What are qualities of a good leader?

+Defining Leadership

Leadership - the ability to influence a group or individuals toward the achievement of a particular goal (Roper, 2012)

Who do you think of when you think of a good leader?

+Defining Community Building

What does Community Building mean to you? Take a minute and discuss with a partner how you

define Community Building Questions to Consider…

What is community? What communities are you a member of? What’s the benefit of being part of a community?

+Defining Community Building

Community Building – the act of connecting others in relationship with each other in a way that enhances the sense of interdependence, mutuality, and shared destination (Roper, 2012)

+How does Leadership and Community Building Intertwine? Why put these two together? What is the value of incorporating leadership and

community building? Learning more about what it means to be a leader and

acquiring skills and knowledge in the area of community building will help all of us reach a common goal. The goal will help us enhance our personal awareness of our own and others’ leadership strengths, while also providing opportunities to develop skills to enhance the sense of relationship, communication and connections within groups.

+As leaders we must start with SelfAsk Questions like: Who am I? Why am I here? What is my purpose? What do I hope to get done? What matters to me?

+The Power of Personal Agency

A person’s capability to originate and direct actions for given purposes;

Influenced by the belief in one’s effectiveness in performing specific tasks;

Our judgments about our ability to construct personal relationship networks and influence others;

Our beliefs about our ability to be a leader and community builder.

+Activities to start understanding Self as a leader… Who am I poem assignment

Opportunity to reflect on where you came from, who you are now, and what has made you you.

Values Identify what is important to you

Strengths Quest Assessment test that identifies your top 5 strengths

Meyers-Briggs Type Inventory (MBTI) Assessment test that identifies your preferences and personality type

Strong Interest Inventory (SII) Assessment test that identifies your interests

*You can find more about these services at your institutions (career services office, leadership office)

+Scenario…

Remember when you first stepped onto campus for your first day. This could be for Orientation or your first day in class. How did it feel? Did you know anyone? Did you feel like you fit in? Did you feel like you mattered?

+Marginality and Mattering

Marginality Feelings of not fitting in Produces feelings of self-consciousness Creates an inability to perform at one’s usual ability

level. Characterized by feeling unnoticed, ignored,

unrecognized, and disconnected from others

+Marginality and Mattering Continued…Mattering How much do I matter to others? Feeling we belong and matter to others Others are interested in what happens to us,

empathize with us, and/or appreciates us Feeling that we are needed by the people around us Is positively related to self-esteem Promotes a healthy and successful transition.

+Five Aspects of Mattering

1. Attention – feeling noticed2. Importance - the belief one is cared about3. Ego extension - feeling that someone will be proud

of what one does or will sympathize with one’s failure4. Dependence - the feeling of being needed5. Appreciation - the feeling that one’s efforts are

appreciated by others.

+Incorporating it All…How does having everyone matter

connect to leadership and community building?

+Leadership and Community Building

Make meaning of relationships Bring order to chaos Foster connections among the isolated Give audibility and visibility Promote human dignity and

institutional integrity Achieve high-level connection with

others Create space for important

conversations Strengthen foundations of community

+As leaders and community builders we must… embrace responsibilities name and own your community’s issues

be a change agent

model hope and optimism

practice Generativity

do the personal work necessary to lead

Shape our future for the common good! Aspire to living values-based lives for the good of others

and work towards a shift in humanity

+To Learn more read this…

+Contact Information

For more information please contact me at:

Caitlin KerriganCaitlin.kerrigan15@gmail.com OR caitlin.kerrigan@oregonstate.edu(971) 241-4685

+ReferencesGrace, B. (2011). Sharing the rock: Shaping our future through leadership for the common good. Bellevue, WA: Common Good Works

Roper, L. (2012). Examining your life as a leader and community builder. ALS 199 powerpoint presentation. Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University

Roper, L. (2012). Marginality and Mattering. ALS 199 powerpoint presentation. Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University

Roper, L. (2012). Personal Agency. ALS 199 powerpoint presentation. Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University