A Step by Step Guide to Building A Sense of Community Within an Organisation Part 1

A sense of community is coming together to start, build, or strengthen a particular commune of people whether it be within the workplace, the area you live, or wherever. To really build a sense of community within an organisation, it must come from the heart and by people who really have a passion to make change for the greater and better good and are not afraid to get involved with those who are closest to the problem.

Why is it important to build a sense of community?

Sometimes we look round for a reason or passion to fight for something. The cause will pop into your head and then we rally around searching for the tools in which we need to energise ourselves onto these paths.

How to build a sense of community?

This may sound like a tougher question than it actually is. The reason for this is there is a wealth of knowledge and a thirst for procedural practical steps. Once we accomplish this and gain an understanding of why and what we are doing then the easier it will become. Remember no two organisations are the same and it all comes from a passion and a thirst to do something.

How do we define an organisational community?

A community organisation is something that strives to bring its members together on an intertwined path or direction to something. It is something that will organise its members together to do something that could otherwise in most cases not be completed alone. When we think of alone, alone isn’t always enough to strive for change but bringing an organisation together collectively has the ability to bring about change or gain the attention of those who have the power to make the change.Simply stating the correct information, belief, or opinion, is not enough to make a change. Change requires action. Action requires organisational community. Stating that someone’s behaviour is not appropriate does not encourage that person’s behaviour to change. However, bring together the community in which that person is in and state together that person’s behaviour is not appropriate, will bring about change.There is a strong need for group involvement. By group involvement, it is important that we ensure we recruit the right people into the group in the first place and that everyone is on the same page. Everyone needs to feel that their voices are being heard. Groups will behave differently to individuals as individuals all have lives of their own outside of any group involvement whereas when in the group everyone is working to achieve the same objective regardless of what their individual takes on things are so long as their voices are heard.

Co-ordinating.

Co-ordinating or taking control of a group can be regarded as a fairly complex thing to do which requires a specific set of skills. It requires a select person within the group to get pull everyone together and set a sense of common direction. They must show the ability to demonstrate the needs of the group and how it can function effectively such as budgets, spacing, timing, strategy etc.These steps are all well and good but there are some basic foundation steps that should be satisfied first in order to effectively bring about effective community organisation.Subscribe now and check out part two for these foundation steps and see if you have what it takes.