Community of Practice Session Deck

1. Record!
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Welcome To Zoom
Click the chat balloon at the bottom of your screen to
turn on chat and introduce yourself in the chat.
In the chat, share your name, where you’re from
and one thing you do in your work that is
important to people’s health and well-being.
If you’re on the phone + computer together put that
in the chat as well.

3. Community of Practice
on Co-Designing
Network Strategies for
a Culture of Health
May, 2018
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4. What We’re Doing Today
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SESSION 1 GOALS
● Welcome to Community of Practice
● Introduce Network Basics
● Provide opportunity to build relationships and practice together
SESSION 1 AGENDA
◎ Welcome and Intro to Community of Practice
◎ Network Basics and Mapping
◎ Breakout Room Conversations
◎ Leadership Shift and Purpose
◎ Next steps, Feedback and Close

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Why are we forming a
Community of Practice?
Learn about network building so that we can...
1. advance our individual work
2. develop recommendations for a larger
network-of-networks to advance a community
health, wellbeing, and equity across the US

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When nothing is sure,
everything is possible
~Margaret Drabble, The Middle Ground

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◎ Network: Over 9,000 people who
fund, run, and study leadership
development
◎ Collaborative Research:
Promoting cutting edge models &
innovation
◎ Application: Putting new models
into practice to scale leadership
impact on social justice issues
Leadership Learning Community

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TRAINING
CO-DESIGN
STRATEGY
CoP
Support an Emerging
Culture of Health
Network
Network Building
Project Components

9. What we want to generate
from the CoP
1. Growing connections, learning and
activity among people/organizations
who are part of this growing network
2. Co-Designed Network Structure
Recommendations
3. Network Leadership 9

10. Introduction to Facilitators
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Ari Sahagún
June HolleyKiara Nagel
Monica Tzeng
Deborah Meehan

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Session 1: Alignment & Purpose
Session 2: Connecting:
Engagement/Self-Organizing
Session 3: Learning by
Doing - Realtime Data
Session 4: Supporting
Networks
Session 5: Clusters Share,
Learn, Integrate
Session 6: Generate
Recommendations

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How will our
Community
of Practice
work?

13. How will the CoP work?
Six Community of Practice Sessions include:
◎ Content Presentations: Network concepts
◎ Small Group Work: Identify possible activities, share
findings/results or provide peer assists
◎ Collect data, reflect & learn together
Practice / Application between sessions (coaching support)
◎ Experiment w/ network activities initiating or participating in
action or learning clusters
◎ Build new connections and our network by engaging new people
Generate recommendations
◎ Using collaborative tools help generate/vet recommendations
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Communications
Ecosystem
Google
groups email
Zoom
Google docs
Kumu maps
for contact
info
Surveys for
feedback
and learning
How we will
communicate

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4 Ways to Build New Connections
(Try one in the next month)
1. Twosies
2. Clusters (interests or skills)
3. Learning Popups
4. Breakout rooms

16. 1. Initiate Twosies
Send an email to someone
with a similar interest (use
kumu maps)
Get together for a 30 minute
zoom or skype call
Share about your experience
in our next month’s check-in.
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You can find other participants with similar interests here.
What is a topic you would like like to talk to someone about?

17. 2. Form Clusters
◎ Interested in the same thing
◎ May turn into a collaborative project
◎ Interests in Kumu
Innovation Fund
◎ Small funds to support collaborative projects
◎ For coordination, food, travel, facilitation
◎ Looking for volunteers to help us design the
Innovation Fund in the next few weeks, let us
know in chat if you want to volunteer
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18. Graph of Interests
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19. 3. Set Up Learning Popups
• Small chunks of new
learning about skills, etc
• Share what you are
doing/learning
• Help each other with
challenges
• Make sure you spend
time getting to know
each other
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You can organize a popup and use free zoom.us
at anytime!
What is a topic you would like to talk with others
about?

20. Word cloud of challenges
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“What is the biggest challenge you are currently facing that you wish someone in
this program could help you tackle?”

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How Do You Build New
Connections?
Use Our Kumu Maps
1. You can click on any person and get their email
2. You can click on one of the interests and find
others interested in the same topic

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4. Breakout Rooms
(Practice 10 Minutes)
● Introduce yourself, tell why you are coming to the
CoP, and one fun thing about yourself
● Write down people’s names so you can go back into
the SumApp survey and add the connection

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Network
Basics

24. Networks as
Patterns of Relationships
Networks are sets of
relationships and the patterns
they create. The patterns
influence the quality of
communication and the
likelihood of collaboration
and innovation.
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25. What is a network, anyways? (Well, here’s what we
DON’T mean)
ORGANIZATION COALITION EMAIL LIST
ONLINE
CAMPAIGN
ORG
CHAPTER
ORGANIZATIONS
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We need networks as complex
as the system we are shifting

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DIVERSE
INTENTIONALLY
INCLUSIVE
PEER-BASED
SELF-ORGANIZED
LEADERFUL
DECENTRALIZED
EXPERIMENTING
LEARNING
SHARING
EXPANDING
TRANSFORMATIONAL
SYSTEM SHIFTING
NETWORK
System Shifting Network

28. System Change Networks and Collective Impact
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TBfwPjYkr8Pfr7LdJuqCDtcaC6MT1CyugLAeoNDrldE/edit?usp=sharing
Collective Impact
1. Joint plan and shared measurement
2. Centralized Governance Group and
Backbone
3. Funds go to organizations
4. Hard to grow
Systems Shifting Network
1. Self-organizing: many people initiating
short term Collaborative Experimental
Projects + deep learning
2. Network governance/decision-making
self-organized, decentralized and
participative (see https://amzn.to/2wGGfXN)
3. Money in innovation pools for collaborative
experiments
4. Structured for rapid expansion through
increased involvement in projects and
focus on explicit inclusion

29. Why are system shifting networks
such an important strategy?
Get more
people
involved
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Use an
experiment
al approach
Great for
complex
problems
Bring
together
more
diversity
Develop
more
leadership
More
learning
Better
outcomes
More new
approaches
generated
Access to
more
resources

30. Food council networks have generated,
pushed for and/or implemented 1000s of

31. Networks of Networks (like this CoP)
When different networks learn from each other,
make breakthroughs and join to change
policy….
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32. Source of network maps: Jeff Mohr, kumu.io
Scattered
clusters
Hub-and-Spoke Multi-hub or
self-organizing
Systems Shifting Network
Time
Where most network-building
begins
Self-sustaining network
Stages of network development
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Who are we?
What do you notice about the map?
What stage are we?
How can we get better connected?
How can we reach out to people who
are not connected to anyone else?

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35. In the chat share, “How might you
use kumu maps in your work?
“How might we use kumu to help
build a national network around
health and equity?”
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36. How do we start with
network approaches?
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37. Network
Leadership
Connect &
self-organize
Action
Learning
Support
Align
Four Network Development Strategies

38. Network Leadership is Collaborative
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39. Organizational ~ Network Leadership
Organizational Network
Position, authority Role, behavior
Few leaders Everyone a leader
Individual Collaborative
Leader broadcasts Leadership engages
Provides services Supports self-organizing
Exercising power Sharing power
Planned Emergent
Hierarchical Relational
Centralized Decision Making Transparency & Process
Individual Claim or Blame Group Reflection/Learning
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40. Project Coordinator
1. Takes initiative to start
collaborative projects
2. Has the skills for project
success
3. Helps people work together
well and stay on track
Network Guardian
1. Helps set up a communication
ecosystem so participants can
engage with each other directly
2. Sets up innovation funds to
support collaborative projects
3. Support network leadership
through coaching and
communities of practice
Network Facilitator/ Convener
1. Helps the network align around
purpose
2. Convenes the network
3. Helps the network shift to a
network mindset
4. Makes sure meetings have time
for relationship building
Network Weaver/Connector
1. Connects people with similar
interests
2. Works to dismantle hierarchy and
privilege
3. Helps people identify their gifts
and strengths
Four Roles
Full survey in Resources

41. Alignment
Through Purpose
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What excites you about being a connected part of
a network like this?

42. Breakout
Rooms
▸ You will need to give permission to be in a
breakout room.
▸ Remember what group the box says you are in.
Scroll down to your group number.
▸ Someone to volunteer to take notes.
Click on the link in the chat (this link) for note
taking document.
▸ Introduce yourselves.
▸ What excites you most about the idea of
national network for health, equity and
well-being? What could the purpose be?

43. Word Cloud of our purpose
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44. Word Cloud of Opportunities
From Training
1.
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45. How do we start with
network approaches?
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46. How can you practice what you
learned during the coming
month?
1. Network leadership survey
2. Purpose activity
3. Explore kumu maps
4. Have a twosie
5. Organize a popup (we can coach you on this)
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47. Pitches:
You have 30 seconds to offer an idea pitch.
Put a headline in the chat if you have an idea.
Answer:
If you like what you hear, respond in the chat
and include name and email to connect.
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48. Resources folder
Guide for setting up popups
Longer network leadership survey that you can use with your networks https://bit.ly/2qDxfMT)
Leadership Learning Community www.Leadershiplearning.org ;Leading Culture and Systems
Change: How to Develop Network Leadership and Support Emerging Networks
Leadership and Networks; Leadership and Networks
www.networkweaver.com (sign up for enewsletter)
ScoopIt: https://www.scoop.it/u/june-holley
Network Weaving Facebook Group: http://www.facebook.com/groups/339757846085496/
Basic Toolkit
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1zDE-68kqkR76ptgxU7ZboMQGmtsiL8dX4OfWG0L9xrE/ed
it?usp=sharing
Self-organizing Toolkit
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1RWFKDw1LR8ICifR_FjJ0BMJjjOHpm0EipfUlKa9QJig/edit
?usp=sharing
Plexus Institute www.plexusinstitute.org
Network Weaver Handbook www.networkweaver.com use code SPECIAL2 to get for $30
Resources
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49. Please give us some quick
feedback on how these
activities worked for you:
https://goo.gl/forms/azJ5wc9F1Ra8EIES2
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50. Thank You !!
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