What qualities should a community organizer have?

The following are the eight essential qualities of a community organizer:

1. Anger: Organizers are anger to move people to action and believe in their job.
2. Flexibility: Organizers are able to refocus and adapt to changing situations.
3. Sense of humor: To reduce conflict, relieve tense situations and do not annoy the team, an organizer must know how to be funny.
4. Fearlessness: Grassroots organizing means leading the army ground forces of an organization to take real risks and must be unafraid of the consequences.
5. Ability to hear: Good organizers are able to hear what people say and reflect on it.
6. Awareness of their own-interest: Organizers understand what they want to get out of a situation.
7. Ability to be self-critical: Organizers are not simply brainless hooligans trying to pick a quarrel, but people able to consider what could potentially happen if they take a course of action.
8. Willingness to share power: Organizers have to be willing to give up power, let members make decision, and ultimately be willing to win or to lose if that’s wgere’s members’ decisions lead.