Kingdom Placemakers: Becoming Attached to the Place You Help Create

Placemaking is a bottom up approach to shaping a public space.

According to Project for Public Spaces, "Placemaking is a multi-faceted approach to the planning, design and management of public spaces. Put simply, it involves looking at, listening to, and asking questions of the people who live, work and play in a particular space, to discover their needs and aspirations. This information is then used to create a common vision for that place. The vision can evolve quickly into an implementation strategy, beginning with small-scale, do-able improvements that can immediately bring benefits to public spaces and the people who use them" (http://www.pps.org/reference/what_is_placemaking/).

There are 11 steps guiding the PLACEMAKING strategy (building a better community):

1. The community (the people of the place) are the experts.

2. Create a place, not a design.

3. Look for partners

4. You can see a lot by just observing.

5. Have a vision.

6. Start with the Petunias: Lighter, Quicker, Cheaper

7. Triangulate

8. They Always Say “It Can’t Be Done”

9. Form supports function

10. Money is not an issue

11. You are never finished.

Read more here on the 11 steps: http://www.pps.org/reference/11steps/

The result is community ownership and excitement. See the quotes below....

"If you’re not building social capital in the community where you’re working, you’re not Placemaking; you’re just reorganizing the furniture."

“Human capital and creative talent increasingly goes where it likes; talent increasingly goes to great places; but talented people become most attached to places that they help create.”

 

As you think about making disciples who make disciples and form a church in a local place, community or neighborhood, how might these steps help along the way?

As followers of Jesus into the neighborhood, we alert people to the reign and rule of God's Kingdom through Jesus. We enter into these public places proclaiming the good news both with our words/stories and by our ACTS (the acts of Jesus followers), demonstrating a kingdom place worth entering into!

Let's be Kingdom Placemakers!

 

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What is the MIX of "Purpose and Strategy"?

Check out this Two by Two diagram at #LeadChange:



Read the entire article by Jon Mertz here:
Purpose and Strategy

The Collective Context: Do People Understand Their Context in the Collective Context?

Just because your strategy makes sense to you, doesn't mean it makes sense to others!
It is up to you to create understand of the collective context, so people can

• Put the strategy on a single piece of paper. Let it serve as a strategic framework that drives all work inside the organization.
• Share the strategic framework and ensure your leaders are aligned. Don’t stand for bobble-heads. Give leaders the context behind the strategy so they understand how you got there and ask them to make the strategy relevant for their teams.
• Provide leaders training on how to use the tools. See them in action so you can coach them on how to communicate big-picture messages, along with that all-important personalization. Can your leaders make the strategy relevant to their teams?
• Use the strategic framework consistently in your communications with employees so it becomes familiar to them and they see what’s happening and how it ties to the strategy (they know what’s important when they see and hear it from multiple sources).
• As your thinking evolves about the strategy (quarterly, annually, etc.), update your frameworkand communicate regularly so employees are in the loop and understand the reasons behind decisions.
• Celebrate “wins,” always connecting back to and reinforcing the core elements of the strategy.
• Read more from the Grossman Group here:

http://t.co/Nl88WjON

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