Summary
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Body
The practice of identifying potential leaders in a community, investing in them, and progressively giving them more responsibility inside the campaign. It is how organising capacity is built and renewed over time.
Leadership development rests on one-to-ones, role-stretching assignments, mentorship, and the deliberate identification of people whose values, skills and networks match the campaign’s evolving needs. ACORN/Alliance Citoyenne treat it as the core of the organising model: campaigns that don’t develop new leaders die with the founders [source: alliance-citoyenne]. MobLab and the Commons Library both publish frameworks for distributed leadership — who decides what, when, and how [source: moblab], [source: commons-library]. Seeds for Change treats leadership development as inseparable from consensus process and facilitation skill [source: seeds-for-change]. The standard US organising canon — Midwest Academy’s Organizing for Social Change — formalises this as the ladder of leadership, a five-step progression from observer to leader [source: midwest-academy]. The hardest part is letting go: a leader who never gets real responsibility never becomes one. Plan for handover from day one.
Use it for
Recruiting volunteer leaders; building a long-term bench for a campaign; handing off a campaign to a local team.
Related
- one-to-ones
- distributed-organizing
- public-narrative
- constructive-programme
- alliance-citoyenne
- commons-library
- midwest-academy
- moblab
- seeds-for-change
Summary
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Open Questions
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Sources & verification
- sources/alliance-citoyenne — grounding: secondary — RAW (1580 chars)
- sources/moblab — grounding: secondary — RAW (645 chars)
- sources/commons-library — grounding: secondary — RAW (5257 chars)
- sources/seeds-for-change — grounding: secondary — RAW (452 chars)
- sources/midwest-academy — grounding: secondary — RAW (697 chars)
Verified 2026-06-23 by llm-qc.