| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 220 pages) |
| Contents |
What do you care about? -- What problem do you take on? -- Giraffe stories -- Why do it? -- What's the path to a meaningful life? -- Going for it -- Giraffe stories -- Start here -- Research -- Decide the form of your participation -- Create a specific project -- Create a vision for your project's success -- Add details to your project -- Giraffe stories -- Trust them? Are you kidding? -- The importance of building trust -- How to build trust -- Efforts to build trust are risky -- Giraffe stories -- Building a team and keeping it together -- How to build a team from scratch -- Team structure -- Team management -- Create and communicate a team vision of success -- Giraffe stories -- Making a plan -- Steps for visionary planning -- What to do when your plan succeeds -- Giraffe stories -- Risk taking and courage -- An ostrich nation -- Turning it around-the giraffe heroes project -- Turning it around -- why you should take risks for the common good -- Tips for taking risks as an active citizen -- Giraffe stories -- Finding common ground: negotiating and resolving conflicts -- General principles for negotiating and resolving conflicts -- Ten steps to common ground -- It doesn't work every time -- Giraffe stories -- Persuasive communications: speeches, fund-raising, and more -- Persuasive communications-style, attitude, heart, and vision -- How to give a great speech -- Tips for raising money -- Giraffe stories -- Dealing with the media: the secrets of good PR -- Why should you tell people what you're doing? -- Creating a media strategy -- How to get the media results you want -- Giraffe stories |
| Summary |
Meeting challenges and resolving conflicts are things that can be done by anyone with the passion to do so, according to John Graham. And he should know. A veteran conflict mediator, Graham heads the Giraffe Heroes Project, whose extensive workshops have helped communities, cities, organizations, and individuals deal with challenge and change. Stick Your Neck Out is based on those experiences. The book details the skills, qualities, and strategies required to make a difference, with profiles of problem-solvers and activists from doctors to waitresses, who have all acted like giraffes and stuck their necks out to address issues like poverty, gang violence, and pollution. Graham's concepts and coaching tips, from communicating with sensitivity to more urgent actions like filing complaints and protesting, apply equally well to macro and micro issues, all the way down to interfamily squabbles and work conflicts. Graham's giraffes have tested his ideas in the real-life situations recounted here, and shown that they work |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Social action -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
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Social change -- Citizen participation -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
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Community power -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- City Planning & Urban Development.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Political Advocacy.
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Community power
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Social action
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Social change -- Citizen participation
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| Genre/Form |
handbooks.
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Handbooks and manuals
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Handbooks and manuals.
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Guides et manuels.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781605093901 |
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1605093904 |
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9781609943950 |
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1609943953 |
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9781609943424 |
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1609943422 |
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