Welcome to An Unscripted Future
Today our communities face leadership challenges and opportunities which bring an increased perception of personal responsibility and risk.
This is a time when each of us must exercise leadership to diagnose shifting situations and engage others in designing interventions that are less about achieving pre-defined outcomes, than they are about moving forward, collaboratively, toward approximate goals in an environment of increased, but managed, conflict and uncertainty.
These cycles of assessment/diagnosis, intervention and evaluation, within ever-shortening time horizons, are increasingly becoming the hallmark of our times and I welcome conversations about their impact on our lives.
Welcome to An Unscripted Future.
In order to move our community leadership programs to a higher level of aspiration and performance...to engage our community members, in an ongoing way, in civic life, community leadership program staff and volunteers are going to have to do a lot of work, internally and externally.
None of these programs is adequately staffed to increase efforts to engage our community members, in an ongoing way, in civic life. In fact, I don’t know of any program with a full-time, dedicated staff person. These programs are cobbled together with volunteer-driven or part-time staff who, on the whole, are well-qualified and trained and have a passion for community leadership, but who have inadequate local resources to support this initiative.
In order to move our community leadership programs to a higher level of aspiration and performance...to engage our community members, in an ongoing way, in civic life, community leadership program staff and volunteers are going to have to do a lot of work, internally and externally.
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