Core Competencies:

Knowledge: The ability to ask hard questions about the status quo of "systems" serving children, youth, families, and communities.

Skills: The ability to involve key stakeholders and key decision-makers to develop, articulate, and sustain a vision for collaborative success.

Attitudes: The ability to encourage and engage in appropriate risk taking as part of the process of change.

Supporting Competencies:

Knowledge:

• Demonstrate an understanding of key sources of influence that a leader can have with others
• Demonstrate an understanding of personal behaviors, situational factors, and styles that contribute to leader success
• Demonstrate an understanding of collaborative leadership as facilitators, bridge builders, communicators, in governance, in groups, and in decision-making
• Demonstrate an understanding of multi-cultural and interprofessional leader characteristics in agency and community settings
• Demonstrate an understanding of the role of a leader as a change agent with knowledge of community conditions and the importance of supporting indigenous leadership

Skills:

• Demonstrate ability to facilitate meetings based on community needs and opportunities for collaboration
• Demonstrate, wherever possible, use of empowerment and constituent-based models asking questions about the effectiveness of human service systems
• Demonstrate the ability to work with others, especially with members of low-income populations, in establishing appropriate and positive outcomes from a community perspective
• Demonstrate the ability to develop, articulate, and sustain a vision including clarity of mission, vision, and goals identified for collaborative purposes
• Demonstrate the ability to communicate goals in a way that promotes collaborative support; motivate others by promoting a shared vision of goals necessary to set clear direction for their activities
• Demonstrate ability to be an effective leader in collaborative, cultural, and interprofessional groups by building teamwork among participants toward a common set of goals
• Demonstrate ability to facilitate a variety of appropriate learning processes and decision-making methods within a group or community setting
• Demonstrate the ability to involve key stakeholders to build and sustain consensus, resolve problems and conflicts in a collaborative process
  

Attitudes:

• Demonstrate personal leader qualities including the ability:
  • to recognize, understand and redirect moods and emotions that have an effect on others
  • to suspend judgement and think through and problem-solve before acting
  • to pursue goals with passion, energy, and persistence
  • to communicate effectively with people from different cultural, social, professional, and organizational backgrounds
  • the ability to reflect and learn from their experience and apply new knowledge
• Reflect on implications of style, timing, participation, and other considerations essential to promoting empowerment and leadership
  

Course(s):

Collaborative Community Leadership - CHHS 330