Community Engagement: Theory, Types, Skills, and Development

This report delves into the multifaceted aspects of community engagement, exploring its theoretical underpinnings, practical applications, and the skills required for effective implementation. It examines the core pillars of community engagement, including building connections, acting with humility, developing understanding, affirming dignity, and pursuing justice, highlighting their significance in fostering positive relationships and achieving shared goals. The report also provides an overview of different types of community engagement, such as advocacy, community-based research, direct community engagement, and project-based community engagement, outlining their respective approaches and benefits. Furthermore, it addresses the skills and challenges faced by workers and volunteers in community-engaged services, emphasizing the importance of trust-building, needs assessment, flexible project design, continuity, and ethical guidelines. Finally, the report underscores the benefits of community engagement for personal and professional self-development and employability, highlighting its role in enhancing skills, improving work-life balance, and advancing career prospects. This document is available on Desklib, a platform offering a wide range of study resources for students.

Community engagement: Assessment 2
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Executive summary
This report is underlying the subjects related to the community engagement. In other words,
community engagement is the methods of employing personal skills with professional skills.
Basically, the main objective of getting into this study is to analyze the aspects of employees and
society that how they manage the work and projects in the long-run. This report understands the
aspects of the business which are more relative to the group and individual diversity. The critical
thinking has applied in this theory and it assists the humans to that how to tilt the behavior and
attitude with discipline and professionalism. The main objective of this assessment is for the
students to develop an understanding the community engagement with its different aspects. The
required skills have been studied in this assessment. This report is demonstrating the pillars of
community engagement with phase of community engagement. The phases may include building
connections, pursuing justice, developing understanding, acting with humility and affirming
dignity. The pillars are achievable with this study of community engagement and presenting the
results in a well-defined manner. These aspects include different articles and journal to find the
justification and identification mentioned underneath.
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Table of Contents
Executive summary.........................................................................................................................2
Introduction......................................................................................................................................4
Discussion of community engagement theory (500 words) with particular reference to the pillars
of community engagement..............................................................................................................5
Description of community engagement types and approaches including advocacy, community-
based research, direct community engagement and project-based community engagement (400
words)..............................................................................................................................................7
Overview of the skills and challenges of workers and volunteers in community-engaged services
(300 words)......................................................................................................................................8
Benefits to personal and professional self-development and employability...................................9
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................10
References......................................................................................................................................11
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Introduction
The community engagement is the process of involving the required skills and analysis of
behavior at the workplace. The community engagement is mainly assessing the aspects of the
business which are more relevant and genuine. To make a good recognition of behavior at the
workplace, it may include the aspects which buildup the personality and improves the
relationship with others. The main objective of implementing the process into the work is also
understandable with the help of this study. There are various challenges have been found with
the help of employing the skills and abilities. No matters how formalize the process is and how
sophisticated technology uses by the management eventually the professional behavior is way
too important for making the practice into reality. So basically these can be proven more
beneficial and cognitive for engaging the community with profession. Several pieces of research
have been done for analyzing the criteria of engaging the community engagement into business.
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Discussion of community engagement theory (500 words) with particular reference to the
pillars of community engagement
Community engagement is basically the process of working with the highly advanced processes
of work which allows the people to get affiliated with the operations and engages with some
concerns, proximity, special concern, similar situation etc (Hobbs and Coiro, 2019). It is
basically a process of improvising the social, behavioral and environmental changes in order to
prosper the skills and abilities of individuals. This may include some elements which can be
uplift by learning professional skills. The mobilization of resources by including different
partners in an organization can bring the employees together and changes the policy programs.
The main objective of including community engagement at the workplace is to understand the
behavior of each other at the workplace. The community refers to a group of people who works
together in the same workplace. The personal barriers and problem with each other while work
are very common in every workplace but how to cope with these problems before it turns out a
serious cause. Basically the interrelation of community with the engagement is shifting the
attitude from individual benefits to the group benefits (Sorge, et. al., 2019). Some of the factors
have been found in order to give an abstract to this function mentioned underneath:
 Building connections: Community engagement is can be connection building strategy at
the workplace with the help of good working relationships. The building of connection is
not only acquiring the employees to get productivity from them. According to the
viewpoint of researchers, the building connections are mean to understand the
consciousness of employees at the end of the day. The organization is required to
understand the desires of employees to facilitate their requirements at the right time.
Some of the selected decision can change the behavior of employees and help them get
retained.
 Acting with humility: The acting of humility is the basic factors which can be proven
more effective which engaging the humans at the workplace. It helps to remove the factor
of working ‘for’ or working ‘on’ community. Apart from this, it also helps to include the
factor of working together and collaboratively with the communities. In simple words, it
helps to build a sense of equality in the behavior of employees.
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 Developing understanding: The understanding of development may engage the working
with collaboration and affiliation with each program organized at the workplace.
Although the development is not a specific process of community engagement. It builds
with highly advanced approaches such as special interest, proximity, similar situations,
etc. These factors may involve the recognition of employees because the development of
understanding can only possible with the help of involving people (Rønnestad, et. al.,
2019).
 Affirming dignity: The working of employees is a one factors and working of
employees with all required human rights is another factor. The engagement of
employees is required to work with all necessary provision and protection of human
rights. Each employee holds the significant values and equal worth at the workplace. The
affirmation of degrees of human rights can bring consistency in work and builds good
image of employees. The deserved right is necessary to provide to the employees in order
to with the higher efficiency and effectiveness.
 Pursuing justice: As the people are working for the recognition and goodwill of
themselves. The concentration on getting the projects into reality the justice criteria is
often incorporated. The pursing of justice is a very common factor which is not supposed
to be there. The most important part is not to judge and never create a different
perception in the mindset. The increment of community engagement assists how to
understand the justice factor and analyze the conditions of human capabilities. These can
be proven more effective and building trust at the workplace. It helps to transport the
right image of employees in the mindset of colleagues and supervisors (Cheon, et. al.,
2018).
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Description of community engagement types and approaches including advocacy,
community-based research, direct community engagement and project-based community
engagement (400 words)
The community engagement may include a variety of appearances through the community
engagement can be more realistic and genuine. Basically, the community engagement with a
higher focus helps to develop the community building. There are basically four types of
approaches are included in this function are as follows:
 Advocacy: community engagement assists the management to understand the problems
and issues of the organization may arise due to any reason (Alt, 2018). The addressing of
these problems may give a reason to the people for preventing the time and cost to
support the situation. It is basically a tool for activating some features and directly
involved in changing the behavior of people and builds up social capital behavior. The
advocacy at the workplace may get higher efficiency and improvise the abilities of
decision-making, conducting training & development campaigns and other talented
outlets for the business.
 Community-based research: The community-based research may include different
types of members, organizational representatives and different researchers. The
community-based research is done according to the specifications of employees and
partners. Every case in community engagement is not similar. However, same method
can apply to solve the issue. The community-based engagement may involve separation
of issues and each method according to the severity of the problems. Each research
includes the components according to the behavior of employees at the workplace. Every
employee holds a significant viewpoint and maybe the problems are also different.
 Direct community engagement: This factor is directly engaging with the factor of
getting the things done with higher effectiveness and greater potential. The use of
different approaches in the practices may include several aspects which are more relevant
and necessary for resolving the problems directly. The solutions may come out by
contributing essential factors. The direct community engagement can build the
organization, services, dialogues, economic development, institutional engagement, etc.
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These factors are more relative to the organizational and engagement context (Maher,
2018).
 Project-based community engagement: The project-based community engagement
may include different types of studies and analysis to solve the problems of community
engagement. Some of the issues and problems are very critical and cannot sort with the
help of general and verbal discussion. In order to mount the problem with right solutions,
it includes varieties of researches such as course evaluations, reflective journals, timely
interviews, analysis of behavior and other functional frameworks.
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Overview of the skills and challenges of workers and volunteers in community-engaged
services (300 words)
The experience and inexperienced workers in community engagement may include the factors
such as the challenges and skills required in this function are mentioned below:
Challenges
 Time commitment: The biggest concern in community engagement is to teach and
research the possibilities and provide commitment. The time management and
cooperation with these factors is a very big challenge.
 Ensure positive community impacts: It is way more difficult to ensure about the
positive results of engaging community. The most challenging thing understands the
behavior of employees at the workplace in order to get sort the significant concern
(Doberneck, et. al., 2019).
Skills
 Building trust: The development of trust with each other is a great factor which can help
to bring the individuals together and increase the relationship bonding.
 Assessment of community needs: It is very important to address the community’s
problems and desires to accomplish it. The addressing of community need can lead them
towards positive behavior.
 Create flexible and sustainable project designs: The designing of projects must be
identifiable and flexible in order to make changes very easily.
 Continuity: Continuity in work ensures stability and perfectionism in the behavior and
makes the work more fluent. The behavior of continuity can reduce the problems and
provide beneficial results in return.
 Involvement of guidelines: The guidelines are basically the right path to walk on and get
the successive results. It helps to build up the ethical viewpoint in the mindset of
individuals (Bigg, et. al., 2018).
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Benefits to personal and professional self-development and employability
Personal development and professional development both can bring higher efficiency in the
humans at the workplace. This can be in terms of higher efficiency in the practices of human
behavior and helps to learn several approaches such as quality of life, self-education, self-
discipline, talent and potential, etc. Apart from this, the development may be valuable in terms of
these five benefits:
 Get able to make realistic goals: The professional development can be possible by
engaging personal development skills in it. However, on the basis of these skills, realistic
goals can be decided and achieved.
 Get a better work-life balance: The bringing of own learning and development skills
don’t only improve the personal attitude and behavior but also helps to bring more
consistency in professional behavior.
 Be able to improvise career prospectus: The selection of skills is very critical path in
order to get higher recognition. Although, the personal perspective is different in
analyzing the professional life somehow these interpersonal skills is the only way to get
corporate life recognizable (Radyi, et. al., 2019).
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Conclusion
On the basis of this report, it has been concluding that involvement of personal development
behavior at the workplace can bring more consistency in improvising the skills and utilizing at
the workplace. The most important factor in increasing the severity of personal skills at the
workplace, a significant view on the development of personal skills is very important. A set of
clear understanding and conceptual theories may include those different approaches which
demonstrate the types of community engagement. The community engagement is providing most
effective ways to build up positive behavior and good changes. Hence, the set of these
approaches are beneficial for the organization to evolve in their practices.
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