Grassroute Guide Ebook

The GRASSROUTE GUIDE is filled with valuable How To's:

• How to create a nurturing grassroots environment in which each participant can grow to his or her full potential.
• How to encourage and foster sharing, mutual support, collective enrichment, and a trust in abundance.
• How to foster a free and transparent flow of information, consciously and gracefully, among all individuals and all parts of the organization.
• How to vest authority, exercise power, and commit resources in the smallest or most localized units of your grassroots group and still include all relevant and affected parties.
• How to generate healthy inter-dependence, cooperation, collaboration and respectful interactions among facilitators, volunteers and the grassroots community.
• How to avoid creating intrinsic advantages or disadvantages for any individual or portion of your grassroots group.
• How to maintain the highest standards of personal and professional integrity, accountability, and performance.
• How to recognize and honor wisdom, expertise, and all thoughts and actions grounded in higher consciousness and selfless service.
• How to promote development and growth of the grassroots community, and work to assure the integrity and coherence of the whole.
• How to structure decision making processes that meaningfully involve those who are directly relevant or affected by a decision.
• How to resolve conflicts so that the needs of all parties are met through deep listening, loving and respectful communication.

Grassroots Organization Levers:
Can you identify any key cultural levers that might presently be stuck or malfunctioning, and therefore holding your grassroots group back? This quick self-assessment tool can help you identify big opportunity areas.

• Work/Life Balance
• Productivity
• Community Relations
• Leadership Skills
• Networking
• Professional Development
• Profitability/Compensation
• Diversity
• Information Exchange
• Physical Work Environment
• Interdepartmental Teamwork
• Executive Teamwork
• Vision/Mission
• New Projects
• Positive and Constructive Feedback
• Peer-Group Involvement
• Accountability
• Work Processes
• Positioning/Marketing
• Project Teamwork