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Know Your Audience

If you're designing a workshop or giving a speech, knowing your audience is critical. This checklist will help.
Categories: Advocacy, Community Building, Contemporary Leadership, Fundraising & Development, Public Speaking, Storytelling, Training & Facilitation, Training Activity, Working With Young People
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Lifestories

One of the most powerful activities we do in our workshops is one of sharing lifestories. This will help you understand the process.
Categories: Community Building, Contemporary Leadership, Deeply Rooted Equity, Public Speaking, Storytelling, Training & Facilitation, Training Activity
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Mentors Inc Case Study

Developed for the Department of Education's Safe and Drug Free School's Program, this is an excellent primer when it comes to social profit boards.
Categories: Board Development, Coaching & Mentoring, Contemporary Leadership, Published Resource
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Public Speaking Workbook

Everything you need to know about public speaking.
Categories: Contemporary Leadership, Public Speaking, Training & Facilitation, Training Activity
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Six Key Questions

A quick checklist of issues to consider when writing a speech.
Categories: Contemporary Leadership, Public Speaking, Training & Facilitation, Training Activity
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Speaking In My Own Voice Activity

A great activity for helping members of groups get to know each other better.
Categories: Contemporary Leadership, Public Speaking, Training & Facilitation, Training Activity
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The Caribbean Youth Advocacy and Action Agenda on Violence Prevention (The AAA)

Common Ground was contracted to engage with young people from across the region to develop The Caribbean Youth Advocacy and Action Agenda on Violence Prevention (The AAA), which we wrote and designed. The AAA was released at the Caribbean Summit on Youth Violence Prevention, which brought together approximately 250 participants from 21 countries in Georgetown, Guyana in 2019.
Categories: Advocacy, Contemporary Leadership, Published Resource, Working With Young People, Youth Development, Youth Engagement
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The Status Quo Bias

We wrote this case study for the Mentoring Resource Center in 2009 to help organizations who are having a difficult time managing necessary change.
Categories: Change Management, Contemporary Leadership, Healthy Organizations, Published Resource, Strategic Planning
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Understanding Servant Leadership

Servant leadership is at the heart of Common Ground's LEAD Model™ and this primer explains the core concepts.
Categories: About Common Ground, Board Development, Contemporary Leadership, International Development, Management, Working With Young People

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