The Community Builder Guidebook: Social Leadership Guidebooks

By Julian Stodd

This short Guidebook is an exploration of 'Communities'. It consider the key capabilities of the Social Leader as a Community Builder. It's about the communities that we build for Social Learning, that we engage with as Social Leaders, and that we will rely upon as we build our more Socially Dynamic Organisation.

It is intended to be both a space for thoughtful exploration, and a practical guide as to how you do it in practice. I've written it to help you to create the 'Conditions for Community': to support your work, whether it be to build new communities, to help existing ones grow and thrive, or to ensure that all of our communities are inclusive and interconnected. 'Interconnectivity' is a core feature of the Socially Dynamic Organisation.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sea Salt Publishing
• Release date: Sep 1, 2019
• ISBN: 9781916502512

Julian Stodd

Julian Stodd is an author, and founder of Sea Salt Learning, a global learning consultancy helping organisations adapt and thrive in the Social Age. Much of his consultancy work is around core elements of the Social Age: the need for Social Leadership, the design of Scaffolded Social Learning, planning for Organisational Change and the impacts of Social Collaborative Technology. Julian comes from an academic background in communication theory, psychology and neurophysiology, learning design, educational psychology, museum education and philosophy. He is a proud global mentor with the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women, and a Trustee of Drake Music, a charity that works to break down disabling barriers to music through education and research. He was awarded the Learning Performance Institute 'Colin Corder Award for Services to Learning' in 2016. At its highest level, his work covers documenting the changes of the Social Age and sense-making what we do about it, and ranges from leadership to learning, culture to change, trust to humility. He has written ten books so far, including 'The Social Leadership Handbook', 'Exploring the World of Social Learning' and 'A Mindset for Mobile Learning', plus a Guidebook series each of which explores different aspects of Organisational design and change. All are under 10,000 words and include sections on ‘what you need to know’, and ‘what you need to do about it’.

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