strategy
Signalling community power
Synonyms:
Celebrating community life engagement Description:
Celebrating gifts of the community. The effect is to call for participation in community celebrations that raise the community's awareness of its offerings. Context:
An integral part of re-energizing public leadership by creating an operational context in which the executive authority recaptures authentic representational power while being held responsible to the individual. Implementation:
Tactics include: legitimate power to limit decision-making power of leadership by community consensus; lionized heroes to create self-conscious public servant image with priority on holding common memory and directed thrust; celebrated community to publicize leadership roles through uniqueness, history and new vision; appropriated roles to point to the revitalizing dynamic which results from the intentional assignment of primary societal heads; and recontexted honouring to point to society's understanding that leadership is verified by sustaining significant engagement. Facilitates:
Empowering communitiesUtilizing community powerAffirming destinal community roleAffirming existing community talentsAffirming all phases of community life Facilitated by:
Portraying community identityProviding sufficient local leadershipForging distinctive community identity Values:
LifePowerCommunityAnticommunity Subjects:
Resources → EnergySociety → Communities
Recreation → Celebration
Innovative change → Appropriateness
Type Classification:
D: Detailed strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
