Barefoot Guide to Working with Organizations and Social Change
This week’s Citizen Participation Team resource entitled the Barefoot Guide to Working with Organizations and Social Change is brought to us by The Barefoot Collective.
This guide is designed for development practitioners working with CSOs to increase their sustainability and organizational development. The chapters focus on
(1) rethinking what an organization should be
(2) asking the right questions
(3) working with different personality types
(4) assessing organizational capacity
(5) facilitating change
(6) working through resistance to change and
(7) maintaining an environment open to change.
The following pages will probably be of particular interest:
* How to ask good questions – pg. 25
* Facilitator’s roles chart – pg. 44
* What can get in the way? – pg. 62-63
* Phases of Organizational Development – pg. 80-81
* Common Issues in Facilitating Change – pg. 103-105
* The Project Cycle – pg. 121
The resource can be found at the following link: http://www.barefootguide.org/download.php
It offers useful tips, exercises, and other practical tools that help identify different types of organizations and stages of organizational development, how to deal with resistance to change, and how to negotiate through barriers to change.
Related:
1. Guides for presentation skills2. DYN Blog: Bill on banning fascist organizations in Serbia
3. Lessons in Democracy
4. PitchWise 2008
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