1. Putting the Pieces Together:
Leading Together
PILD Conference
April 10 – 13, 2016
Improving Lives. Improving Texas.

2. Abraham Lincoln

3. Leading Together
► Develop & implement an asset based community development approach.
► Practice the Appreciative Inquiry approach
to building relationships.
► Cultivate trust & shared leadership
► Discover & build leadership stories.

4. “Putting the Pieces Together”
Your role in change and community development
Each leader has strengthens to build a team
Cultivate Trust &
Shared Leadership

5. 1. Asset – Based Community Development 2. Servant Leadership 3
1. Asset – Based Community Development 2. Servant Leadership 3. Appreciative Inquiry 4. Deliberative Dialogue 5. Organization & Group Dynamics 6. Leading Together

6. Assets are… ► Skills ► Talents ► Organizations
► Infrastructure (built assets)
Asset Mapping is the process to discover those assets in the community.

7. Benefits of participatory process…
► Greater collective capacity.
► Individual sense of self-competency.
► Enhanced well-being in the community.
Community Development is relationship driven.

8. Appreciative Inquiry …
is a way of learning by asking
non-threatening questions
to discover assets & build
capacity.
Appreciative questions help us…
► Acknowledge people
► Let them know their ideas matter
► Show a desire to listen

9. Motivation
Appreciative conversations reveals the essence of what motivates people to action.

10. Asset Mapping, Appreciative Inquiry, and Stories
Understanding…
Asset Mapping, Appreciative Inquiry, and Stories
Help us Engage the Community

11. Extension Resource Sites
Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Home Page
Texas Rural Leadership Program Site
AgriLife Extension Bookstore

12. Take Home Messages
Build Vibrant Communities through Creative Vision & Progressive Leadership

13. Rural Leadership

15. Thank You!
Ronnie McDonald, Executive Director for Community Relations and Strategic Partnerships Alexis Cordova, Liberty County Extension Agent for Family & Consumer Sciences