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Catalyst for Civic Change and the Building Civic Leadership in Portland, Maine

Introduction

The field of civic engagement is known under a number of different appearances, such as community growth, citizen action and urban or rural regeneration. All of these address the effectively civic nature of responsibility and emphasize the hope that positive change is the final result. This is an important, common denominator for a field that graced with an abundance of organizations working to improve communities through civic engagement. This surfeit is both a blessing and a curse. While it seems there are organizations dedicated to almost every civic issue under the sun, these organizations are also constantly producing new initiatives and research. How can we possibly keep abreast of all the latest news and findings? Civic Change is just one way to remedy this (Gottlieb, pp.16).

Leadership focuses on the perfect man philosophy. It means that the leader possesses some extraordinary qualities that distinguished him from others. Leaders are not scared of facing any challenge, and this is the characteristic which makes them different from others. When civic leadership recognized one thing got clear that there are many leaders in American society. The civic leaders have strong moral sense, they understand the policy process, and they developed the leadership skills through training and experiences. Civic leadership reflected in the capacity of a community to identify, analyze, cooperate with each other, and solve urgent societal needs and issues through the efforts of largely engaged citizen associations. Implicit in this capacity is two levels of commitment, where citizens with talents and obligations connect with others at the level of a community to address shared problems. Civic leadership involves talent growth, managerial structures and processes that develop and engage emerging and current leaders in community problem solving. Civic leadership is implemented by folks but in a group, or in a form of a community such as local, regional, statewide and beyond. Civic leadership practiced by crossing limitations of private, public, and non-profit sectors (McGregor, pp.26).

Leadership Fieldbook

The Leadership Fieldbook provides a comprehensive account of applied, experiential learning activities and associated cases that promise to promote change toward more leadership practice at five different levels. The target group of the applied activities in the book is coaches, facilitators, OD consultants or network weavers serving as change agents internal or external to the system in question in order to develop leadership practice in most institutional settings. In addition, the activities and cases can be ...