Guidebook to Community Consulting

A Collaborative Approach

AvSusan M. Wolfe,Ann Webb Price

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

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Beskrivning

Guidebook to Community Consulting provides advice for people interested in starting or growing a career in community consulting. Drawing on the authors' years of experience as community consultants, it offers a wealth of practical guidance to anyone considering or establishing a successful career serving and empowering communities. It includes guidance about the personal qualities, values, and technical skills needed; how to start a consulting practice; how to collaborate with colleagues, and most importantly, how to collaborate with communities. Practical advice and tips are motivated by core guiding principles and goals including an understanding of consulting as a partnership between consultants and communities; decoloniality; anti-racism, and equity. The text is animated with illustrative anecdotes and lessons gained from real-world experience.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-03-23
Mått:175 x 253 x 13 mm
Vikt:450 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:234
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781009244305

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Dr. Susan M. Wolfe, CEO of Susan Wolfe and Associates, has been working with communities for over thirty-six years. Her award-winning work includes research, evaluation, coalition development, advocacy, needs assessments, and strategic planning. She has published her work in journals, books, and blogs, and regularly teaches workshops and gives presentations to professional audiences nationally and internationally. Dr. Ann Webb Price, President of Community Evaluation Solutions, works with community coalitions, non-profit organizations, and foundations that focus on systems change. She conducts workshops throughout the country on coalition development and evaluation. She has a podcast called Community Possibilities where she speaks to community leaders doing the hard work of community change.

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'A much-needed resource for independent community consultants. It provides a wealth of field-based advice and practical wisdom and offers an assessment tool to rate the knowledge, values, and skills required by community consultants. We can all benefit from the experience of Wolfe and Price!' Gail Vallance Barrington, Michigan State University, USA

Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction; 2. Community consulting – how to prepare and where you might work; 3. Do you have the personal qualities to be a community consultant; 4. Community consulting values and knowledge; 5. Skills you might need or want; 6. Setting up your practice and managing the practical matters; 7. Collaboration with colleagues; 8. Collaboration with clients and the community; 9. Money matters; 10. The future of community consulting; Appendix 1: Community consulting professional development planning tool; Appendix 2: Resources; Glossary.