According to the reading, the current system of leadership is no longer effective Empowerment has created special-interest groups. Advocacy oversimplifies problems and divides and individual achievement has become more important than everyone achieving. Community development rests on the basic assumption that individuals can be partners in the process of determining their leisure destiny. It suggests that individuals can learn the processes necessary to b. plan c. organize, and d. implement their own services based on e. their perception of their own needs Community development focuses on helping people help themselves. Developing a community is accomplished through collaborative leadership.
Citizens understand that common problems can be worked out collaboratively.
Collaboration goes beyond communication, cooperation and coordination. It means to work together. Planning and organizing work Job design is a personnel management strategy. Technical skills become less important while human relation skills and conceptual skills gain in importance. Of human relation skills and conceptual skill, conceptual is most important.