loi toolkit: building community

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Collaborationis

the human face ofsystems thinking.


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Hello Cubicle Warrior, today,you are The Super Connector:building relationships for world

changing impact!Your missionFostering a sense of

community around your idea.

Your challenges+Earning the trust of your peers

+Working to foster collaboration

across siloes and sectors

+Democratizing ownership

so that your venture can live

on without you

+Aligning your venture with the

culture of your organization

Your super powerYou have an uncanny ability to know

whom to connect to and when. You thrive on

relationships and feeling connected to a bigger

community. You find ways of working across

siloes and building collaborations that touch

upon a wider agenda.


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At the core, we are allsocial beings. We wantto belong. To feel like weare part of something

bigger than ourselves.


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Visualize your system Connect with yourintrapreneurial counterparts


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Keep listening Design for integration

I have established a network of

detractors that help me identify my

weak points. I approach them early

on in the development of a new idea,

so I can build a more effective case.Daniel VennardMars, Inc.


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Create cultural alignment Practice Code-Switching

When I think of our failures,they came when we got too faraway from our core. Were a sportscompany. For people to get excitedat Nike, it has to tie back to this.Sarah Severn,Systems Innovation, Nike.


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Build trust Be generous

I remember one of the rst communitymeetings we had. We were describing how wewanted to work together on pilot programs, andstart a process of experimenting, and learning andexploring. One of the community leaders stoppedme in my tracks and said, Before we go any further,I want to be really clear. This may be a pilot to you,but this is our lives. We dont need more people tosweep in and try to save us.Amy Chen


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Connect on a human level Democratize ownership

If you dont have the personalconnection, and the meaningof what youre trying to achievetogether, the rest is just veneer.Miriam Turner, Interface.


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The hunger to belong is notmerely a desire to be attached

to something. It is rather sensing

that great transformation and

discovery become possible whenbelonging is sheltered and true.


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Its human nature to find theflaws in an argument. If you

present your idea as fully fl eshed,you set yourself up for critiqueand you limit the potential fordeeper engagement by others.

Instead, consider how youcan present your idea in a way

that allows for other people tocontribute. Youre more likelyto end up with a better idea aswell as people who feel greater

ownership of the outcome.

Whether analogue or digital,

the benefit of belonging to thecommunity for many will beconnecting with others in thetribe. Human connections

are best, but digital tools arebecoming increasingly effectiveat connecting people.

Jive, Yammer, Facebook

and Opal are all great toolsto connect intrapreneurs withtheir supporters. Nikes GirlEffect team established

a physical space on Nikescampus that included inspiringimages and quotes as a way

to keep the project visibleand create a playful space forcommunity connections.

Stories ignite community bybuilding intimacy and offering

a sense of shared experienceand principles. Stories are alsokey to fostering knowledge flows

within any organization.

Giving people space to speakcandidly and unrestrictedly about

their work fosters learning andunderstanding particularly acrossorganizational siloes.

Too often we defer to simplescripted updates on a busy

meeting agenda rather than carveour space for genuine sharing.

ENGAGE WITH QUESTIONS RATHER THAN ANSWERS. FACILITATE UN-SCRIPTED SHARING AND STORYTELLING

CREATE SPACE FOR YOUR COMMUNITY TO CONNECT.

Small steps Bigger steps

A Collaboratory is a mash up

of collaboration + laboratory in essence, collaborating forinnovation. Collaboratories can beas simple as a one-day workshop

or as complex as a long-term,multi-stakeholder project.

The beauty of a collaboratory is

that it gets actors from variousparts of the system speaking toone another. Youll be surprised athow disconnected all the players

are and how much they will learn.

The goal of the collaboratory

process is to build a communityof players who have a sharedcommitment to a commonpurpose and who see the benefit

of working together to change thesystem.

HOST A COLLABORATORY


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Where can I learn more? Contributors


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Over the past five years we have sought

to make social intrapreneurship partof the formula for how we think aboutchanging the world. Our initial foraysinto the field began with John Elkington

in The Social Intrapreneur A FieldGuide for Corporate Changemakers.

Building on this initial study,we stepped out and rallied greater

institutional support to invest in thecreation of a network for corporatechangemakers. In the Fall of 2012,The League of Intrapreneurs was born

with support from Ashoka, Accenture,the Inter-American InvestmentCorporation, GlaxoSmithKline,

Standard Chartered, Virgin and anumber of other partners.

The Cubicle Warriors Toolkit grows

out of our experiences working in thetrenches with leading change-agentsat large institutions. The creation of thistoolkit would not have been possiblewithout input from leading experts

and practitioners, including membersof the League of Intrapreneuers.

We would especially like to thank:

Gib Bullochat Accenture andRosario Londono at the Inter-American Investment Corporationfor their support in helping us grow

this community and contributing tothe mounting canon of knowledge inservice of social intrapreneruship.

Maggie de Pree and Alexa Clay

The Human Agency

More about the Human Agencycan be found at:www.thehumanagency.net

This document was designedby Adam Loxley.

Illustrations have been done

by Tom Jennings.

Over the coming decades,an accelerating pace of change

will test the resilience of every

society, organization andindividual. The balance ofpromise and peril confrontingany particular organization

will depend on its capacityfor adaptation. Hence, the

most important question forany company is this: are wechanging as fast as the worldaround us?

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