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Community Leaders

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Rashid Mwinyi
Rashid Mwinyi

A community leader is someone who is perceived to represent the communitys interests and plays the role of protecting them. This role could be paid for or voluntarily, most communities have held this role as a voluntary one. Community leaders have a vast range of roles that range from mobilizing communities for a common cause to designing courses of action to overcome common challenges.

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Who is a community leader? Qualities of good community leaders Roles of Community Leaders
Are you someone who: Wants to improve your community? Has something to contribute? Doesn't wait around for someone else to get the job done?
Community leader take responsibility for the well-being and improvement of their communities. You don't have to run for office or be given a title to be a leader. All you need to do is decide to take responsibility for some corner (or bigger chunk) of your community.
A community leader is someone who is perceived to represent the communitys interests and plays the role of protecting them. This role could be paid for or voluntarily, most communities have held this role as a voluntary one. Community leaders have a vast range of roles that range from mobilizing communities for a common cause to designing courses of action to overcome common challenges.
1. Self awareness 2. Eagerness to learn and adapt 3. Empathy 4. Honesty and integrity 5. Dedication 6. Interpersonal skills 7. Motivation
A good community leader should be knowledge of his or her strengthens and weaknesses. This will enable the leader to exploit better his abilities while seeking help from others for his or her weak areas.
As a community leader, earning respect from members is one of the key enablers of ones roles. To do so, learning to listen from others, appreciating their input and changing courses of action is essential.
As a leader its important that you recognize how the community perceives you as their leader. Empathy allows one to imagine different viewpoints from the community members as well as understand their feelings.
A leader must ensure that he is trustworthy to the community and to other leaders. Trust facilitates productive space for discussions and desired social change. Once trust is broken, respect is diminished and productivity is eliminated.
As a community leader, who most likely is playing a voluntary role, its important that you recognize your own benefits from the role. Time spent on a community role can only be beneficial if its seen to create space for desirable social change both for the leader and the community.
A community leader should be able to interact with other members of the community with ease. This calls for good communication and collaboration skills. Being able to negotiate, mediate, listen to others, and articulate arguments and to work with members external to the community is essential.
Lastly, a great leader inspires as to create the desired social change. He does this in a variety of ways but always remembers to include others in his thought process and courses of action.
A community leader's job is not to take on all the problems of the world themselves and fix everything, but rather to work together with everyone in the community, to mobilize and guide others, to facilitate solutions and thing about the long-term health of the community and its people.
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  • 1. Women and Youth Leadership Network Learning Workshop
  • 2. Who is a community leader? Qualities of good community leaders Roles of Community Leaders
  • 3. Are you someone who: Wants to improve your community? Has something to contribute? Doesn't wait around for someone else to get the job done?
  • 4. Community leader take responsibility for the well-being and improvement of their communities. You don't have to run for office or be given a title to be a leader. All you need to do is decide to take responsibility for some corner (or bigger chunk) of your community.
  • 5. A community leader is someone who is perceived to represent the communitys interests and plays the role of protecting them. This role could be paid for or voluntarily, most communities have held this role as a voluntary one. Community leaders have a vast range of roles that range from mobilizing communities for a common cause to designing courses of action to overcome common challenges.
  • 6. 1. Self awareness 2. Eagerness to learn and adapt 3. Empathy 4. Honesty and integrity 5. Dedication 6. Interpersonal skills 7. Motivation
  • 7. A good community leader should be knowledge of his or her strengthens and weaknesses. This will enable the leader to exploit better his abilities while seeking help from others for his or her weak areas.
  • 8. As a community leader, earning respect from members is one of the key enablers of ones roles. To do so, learning to listen from others, appreciating their input and changing courses of action is essential.
  • 9. As a leader its important that you recognize how the community perceives you as their leader. Empathy allows one to imagine different viewpoints from the community members as well as understand their feelings.
  • 10. A leader must ensure that he is trustworthy to the community and to other leaders. Trust facilitates productive space for discussions and desired social change. Once trust is broken, respect is diminished and productivity is eliminated.
  • 11. As a community leader, who most likely is playing a voluntary role, its important that you recognize your own benefits from the role. Time spent on a community role can only be beneficial if its seen to create space for desirable social change both for the leader and the community.
  • 12. A community leader should be able to interact with other members of the community with ease. This calls for good communication and collaboration skills. Being able to negotiate, mediate, listen to others, and articulate arguments and to work with members external to the community is essential.
  • 13. Lastly, a great leader inspires as to create the desired social change. He does this in a variety of ways but always remembers to include others in his thought process and courses of action.
  • 14. A community leader's job is not to take on all the problems of the world themselves and fix everything, but rather to work together with everyone in the community, to mobilize and guide others, to facilitate solutions and thing about the long-term health of the community and its people.