The Community Builder Guidebook: Practical Approaches to Building Engaged Communities (The Social Leadership Guidebook)

This short Guidebook is an exploration of Communities. It considers the key capabilities of the Social Leader as a Community Builder. Its about the communities that we build for Social Learning that we engage with as Social Leaders and that we will rely upon as we build our more Socially Dynamic Organisation.It is intended to be both a space for thoughtful exploration and a practical guide as to how you do it in practice. Ive written it to help you to create the Conditions for Community: to support your work whether it be to build new communities to help existing ones grow and thrive or to ensure that allof our communities are inclusive and interconnected. Interconnectivity is a core feature of the Socially Dynamic Organisation.The context of this work is the Social Age: the evolved ecosystem in which we live (and the subject of another of these Guidebooks). Broadly speaking the Social Age sees the rise of collectivism beyond traditional Organisational structures facilitated by emergent and pervasive social collaborative technology at radical scale and existing outside the hierarchy of any formal organisational structure or rules. The communities that I describe here are not formal structures; they exist within the Social aspect of the Organisation.