The GRASSROUTE GUIDE is filled with valuable How To's:
- How to create a nurturing grassroots environment in which each participant can grow to his or her full potential.
- How to encourage and foster sharing, mutual support, collective enrichment, and a trust in abundance.
- How to foster a free and transparent flow of information, consciously and gracefully, among all individuals and all parts of the organization.
- How to vest authority, exercise power, and commit resources in the smallest or most localized units of your grassroots group and still include all relevant and affected parties.
- How to generate healthy inter-dependence, cooperation, collaboration and respectful interactions among facilitators, volunteers and the grassroots community.
- How to avoid creating intrinsic advantages or disadvantages for any individual or portion of your grassroots group.
- How to maintain the highest standards of personal and professional integrity, accountability, and performance.
- How to recognize and honor wisdom, expertise, and all thoughts and actions grounded in higher consciousness and selfless service.
- How to promote development and growth of the grassroots community, and work to assure the integrity and coherence of the whole.
- How to structure decision making processes that meaningfully involve those who are directly relevant or affected by a decision.
- How to resolve conflicts so that the needs of all parties are met through deep listening, loving and respectful communication.
Grassroots Organization Levers:
Can you identify any key cultural levers that might presently be stuck or malfunctioning, and therefore holding your grassroots group back? This quick self-assessment tool can help you identify big opportunity areas.
- Work/Life Balance
- Productivity
- Community Relations
- Leadership Skills
- Networking
- Professional Development
- Profitability/Compensation
- Diversity
- Information Exchange
- Physical Work Environment
- Interdepartmental Teamwork
- Executive Teamwork
- Vision/Mission
- New Projects
- Positive and Constructive Feedback
- Peer-Group Involvement
- Accountability
- Work Processes
- Positioning/Marketing
- Project Teamwork
