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Introduction to Networks and Network Weaving

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Presenters

June Holley, Consultant, Network Weaver

Former President/CEO and Founder, Appalachian Center for Economic

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William Moore, PhD, Senior Fellow, Midwest Center for Nonprofit Leadership and

Principal, The Strategy Group

Former Vice-President, REACH Healthcare Foundation

Agenda● Introductions - Who are we

○ Share name, role or position

○ Project name and Community

● Purpose - What you can expect today○ Learn more about networks through several brief topical presentations

○ Opportunities to reflect and ask questions

○ Breakout room

○ All group Q&A (if time permits)

● Topics - What content will be discussed○ Why networks

○ What are networks and their features

○ Leading with a network mindset

○ Activating the Network

○ The role of an integrator organization in a network

● Post-Webinar Coaching4

Why Networks?

Topic 1

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Innovation

DiversityExperimentalMore people

involved

Better outcomes

More leadership

More action

More learning

Network Approach

What are networks?

Topic 2

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NetworksPatterns of Relationships

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Networks are sets of

relationships and the

patterns they create

that influence the

quality of

communication and

the likelihood of

collaboration and

innovation.

Source of network maps: Jeff Mohr, kumu.io

Scattered clusters

Hub-and-Spoke Multi-hub or self-organizing

Intentional Collaboration Network

Time

Where most network-building begins

Self-sustaining network

Stages of network development

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Intentional Collaboration Networks:To Promote collaboration & innovation

Core consists of clusters w different perspectives who know & trust each other

Periphery draws in new ideas & resources

This represents a Field of Potential for action

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Intentional Collaboration NetworksActivating Your Network

How can you encourage small groups to take action?

How can you support leadership in these collaborative projects?

How can you help people develop skills needed for effective collaboration?

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ComparisonCoalition

● Focus on specific agreed upon goals● Often planning focused● Explicit membership● Often fairly small ● Hard to grow and expand● Actions are typically initiated by

core leaders● Work is planned for and carried out

with specific outcomes in mind

• Often include diverse organizations and individuals with different approaches and perspectives

• Experimental and innovative – trying new approaches

• Often no clear boundaries except general issue all focus on

• Huge potential for expansion• Action by subsets• Emergent work with a general sense

of where it will lead

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Discuss . . .

How does this make

you think differently

about your work?

What stage is your

network?

What questions do

you have so far?

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Leading with a Network Mindset

Topic 3

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What is a network mindset?

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To work with a network mindset means:

● Openness, transparency, decentralized decision-making, and

collective action

● Awareness of the networks you are embedded in

● Leadership through doing

● Sharing by default

Keys to Leading in a Network

1. Shift values2. Map and improve your network through

new connections3. Activate the network4. Support the network and emerging leaders

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Shift Values

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Complex problems call for new values & behaviors

FROM Hierarchy TO Peers Collaborating20

Transformation ...

FROM Conformity & Homogeneity TO Appreciation of differences 21

Transformation….

FROM Control TO A Web of Support22

Network Values Survey

Click on this link

https://goo.gl/forms/ReWom0GbU3zXqtCw2

We’ll review the results as they come in!

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How could you experiment with shifting values in your organization and networks?

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Activate the network: How networks stimulate community engagement and innovation

Topic 4

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Lots of different activities

Bring in new people through specific activity

Build new leadership by encouraging volunteers to initiate and coordinate projects

Intentional Collaborative Network

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Collaborative Working Groups

New Leaders

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Working Groups are Key!

Workgroups - Innovation Engines

•Where the action happens in networks

•WGs pop up because of the passions and interests of people

•WG focus is determined by the group

•Members come and go

•WG achieve their goal and either disband or evolve

•WG leadership is distributed

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Creating Opportunity

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Passions and interests lead to opportunities to engage and innovate

Pressing community problems lead persons of all walks of life to come together to find solutions

Network leaders and the integrator organization . . .

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Four ways to form working groups

1. Close triangles - connect others with similar interests and

passions to form a group

2. Use a CHNA or other needs assessment to identify areas

3. Use system analysis to identify areas needing focus in a

community system or problem - then groups of individuals who

share a common interest work on that problem

4. Use a clustering process at meetings - What do you want to

work on next?

Closing Triangles

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Do a System Analysis, Identify Leverage Points & Form Working Groups around them

(Guide in Resources Folder)

Clustering Process at meeting

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At any meeting, you can

do the Post It note

process (see Toolkit on

self-organizing)

What do you most want

to work on with others in

the next months? What

do you want to talk

about with others?

Survey Using Google Forms or Polling

On which of the following are you most interested in working on during the next 3 months?

a. Option 1

b. Option 2

c. Option 3

How willing are you to organize that activity?

a. Very willing

b. Somewhat willing

c. Not willing

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Allen County, KS Workgroups

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Core groupRecruitment Pipeline WG

Connectors WG

CIrcles WGTrails WG

Veterans Services WG

Utilities Policy WG

Access/FQHCWG

Network Mapping WG

Useful Tools to Keep the Network Activated

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Three synergistic digital tools

Use breakout rooms

Use even for local FTF meetings

Zoom

Good headings

Reply All

Group Email

Get everyone to put on favorites bar

Google docs

Zoom has

break out rooms so you can

build relation-

ships

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Great for learning popups, Communities of Practice and collaborative projects

Free!

Google docsTemplates

(in Resource Folder)

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Breakout RoomsInstructions

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Breakout rooms

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Have one person take notes. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qvMYGGo_MO_LHN98XRk4y3ihkop_ExchSWAqz67zW2A/edit?usp=sharing

Introduce yourself to others and tell about your interest in networks.

Share what excited you about this presentation and what action(s) you can take next month to try out the work group approach to activating your network.

What support would you need to try them out?

What questions do you still have about forming learning or working groups?

Your breakout will last 20 minutes. You will receive a 1 minute notice to return to the large group.

The Role of the Integrator Organization and Core Leadership Team

Topic 5

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If the integrator organization isn’t leading, who is?

A core leadership team with distributed leadership

• Who is on this team?

• What does this team bring to the work?

• Funders want to know how their dollars are being managed and by who

• The integrator organization may, at first, be leading as the network begins to take

shape and before a leadership team is in place; it’s essential that the integrator not

maintain the leadership role for too long

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The role of Core Leadership Team in a network

Understand the System Trying to Change

Tracking Progress

Communications Ecosystem

Network Leadership

Support

Catalyze Work

Groups

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Build Network

Awareness

Connect to Network of Networks

Developing diverse and dynamic leadership Help people map and understand their networks

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Mapping – Post It note examples (directions in Resources Folder)

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Software or web-based mapping

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Interest in Social Media as part of the Communications EcosystemWant to learn more

Expert – lots of experience

Very willing to train others

Somewhat willing

Not sure what role I can play

Four experts are VERY WILLING to train others in social media. 19 people want to learn!

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Set up and Manage the Communication EcosystemFacebook

Group Group email (share info, discussion)\

Interactive enewsletter

Web page w discussion

groups/ data base

Twitter (bring in

new ideas)

ScoopIt (curate

innovations on topic)

Doodle or Meeting Wizard ts

Skype for twosies,

small groups

Video conferencing

for group work and learning,

Google docs for

collaboration space, surveys

Track network through

dashboards

Share stories

Share and discussinformation

Face-to-faceConference

calls

Build relationships andCollaborate

ID and share ideas for innovation

Mobile Phones

Track networkdevelopment

Two kinds of collaboration

Statewide Collaborations for

● Learning● Sharing● Supporting● Spreading

Local Collaboration for ● Action Projects for

Community Change● Capacity building● Leadership

Development● Expanding the

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Meta-Networks•CACHI has the potential to be a network of networks

•With networks (or coalitions as they exist today) in multiple sites there is

great potential to be learning from each other, sharing and problem-solving

challenges, collaboratively finding solutions and exploring and partnering to

create innovations that have relevance for multiple communities.

• These networks could be supported by a meta-network or network of

networks including each community, a technical assistance team, the

funders, a growing periphery of experts, “interested friends,” content

experts, other networks in the country, and national experts.

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Questions

1. What would it take to incorporate the network roles into your role as an integrator? To distribute leadership and other roles more widely?

2. Could your coalition shift to a Core Leadership team? What would it take to do this?

3. How could CACHI become more of a network of networks?

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Share these slides with your local

people

Try one network activity

Have a one-on-one Zoom call with

someone you’d like to get to know better or who might help your

network

Access the resources in our

Google folder

What will you try out?

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Webinar Resources & Follow-Up1. Resources

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1W-rwZACKSUl8k1gjMvyloJIEyx8baWdN?usp=sharing

2. Access the SSIR site to find articles on networks for social change at https://ssir.org/articles/entry/building_networks_and_movements_for_social_change

3. Join the Facebook group . . . Search Network Weaving

https://www.facebook.com/groups/339757846085496/

4. June’s scoopit for network articles:

https://www.scoop.it/u/june-holley

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ResourcesAn Introduction to Network

Weaving (use code SPECIAL at

www.networkweaver.com)

Network Weaver Handbook, A

Guide to Transformational

Networks (use code SPECIAL2

at www.networkweaver.com)

(include articles)

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Next Steps

1. Please complete the survey at the link below to evaluate this webinar https://goo.gl/forms/TNA096pQgb8YNY672

2. June and I can provide additional webinars to the CACHI sites. We have proposed several to Sue and we would like to better understand which topics are most interesting to you.

3. June and I are offering at no cost, one-hour follow-up and coaching session for each team that must be completed by December 15th. https://goo.gl/forms/uDoKRhqopsgBiXgn2

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Thank You!

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