New Organizing Institute

Setting Up & Supporting Volunteer Teams

Instructor(s): Hope Wood

Hope Wood uncovers the secrets and best practices of building and sustaining volunteer teams for your local campaign: team structures, tips on recruiting volunteers, delegating vote goals to teams, and a framework for building and sustaining effective teams that take responsibility and are motivated to get out the vote for your candidate or issue.

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Coaching 101

Instructor(s): Hope Wood

Leadership in organizing is about enabling others to achieve purpose in the face of uncertainty. Coaching, put simply, is the act of enabling others. Organizing campaigns are rich with challenges and learning opportunities, but sometimes we are fish in our own water and we cannot see the challenges we are swimming in.

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Getting Commitment

Instructor(s): Kristen Dore

Since our power comes from our relationships with others and our shared resources together, we are weakened if we are not constantly inviting others to join us in meaningful, purposeful work. Getting into action requires that leaders engage others to make explicit commitments to us and to achieve specific, measurable outcomes. We are often afraid to ask to much of others and if we do, we are afraid that they won't show up. This lesson introduces the 4 C's of commitment as a way to engage others.

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Tactics & Timing

Instructor(s): Kwesi Chappin

Your organization will quickly get into trouble if you want to engage in strategizing without putting equal time into the implementation of your strategy. Once you have your theory of change, the next step is to develop creative, engaging tactics that will turn the individual resources of many into shared power. This lesson reviews the steps to choosing tactics, making them sweet and then bringing them to life.

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Theory of Change

Instructor(s): Joy Cushman

In order to create change in the world we have to engage in action. But in order for action to mean something it needs to be guided by a clear, compelling strategy that lays out a believable path to change. The work of strategy and the purpose of this session is figuring out how to turn what you have into what you need to get what you want; how to turn the resources you have into the power you need to achieve a specific, measurable goal.

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Building Relationships

Instructor(s): Joy Cushman

Organizing is based on relationships and creating mutual commitments to work together. In this lesson, learn to recast our individual interests as common interests, by building relationships and having one on one's and small group meetings to create the foundation for local campaign teams.

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Building Teams

Instructor(s): Carlos Saavedra

Volunteer efforts often flounder due to a failure to develop reliable, consistent, and creative local leadership teams. Research has revealed 5 building blocks necessary for creating interdependent teams. and in this lesson you will learn to structure leadership teams that encourage stability, motivation, creativity, and accountability – and use volunteer time, skills, and effort effectively.

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Story of Us & Now

Instructor(s): Michele Rudy

Once your constituency understands why you are called to lead, it is time to motivate others to collective action. Learn to build power with others by mastering the second part to public narrative - the Story of Us & Now.

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Story of Self

Instructor(s): Joy Cushman

How can you lead others if they don't know who you are, where you come from, and what your values are? Mastering the art of public narrative allows you to establish firm ground with your constituency in which to collaborate, lead and find common purpose. Each of us has a story to tell that can move others to action. Story of Self is the first part to public narrative where you will learn to convey why you are called to leadership in your movement.

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The Choice

Instructor(s): Kristen Dore

Leadership is taking the responsibility for enabling others to achieve purpose in the face of uncertainty. Taking the first step to empowering our communities requires that we challenge ourselves and others to make THE CHOICE to organizing in the face of these uncertainties we face every day. This lesson introduces you to the craft of organizing as it relates to the major movements in U.S. history and provides a framework for re-shaping our ideas about leadership.

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Organizing And Leadership

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