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Community Beam

(A Community Assets Portal)

CLF Presentation

May 20, 2016

http://dmcbeam.org/

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Community Beam

What is it?

Why is it?

What can we do together?

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Collaboration Problem

Minnesota: The land of 10,000 lakes.

Minnesota: The land of 10,000 organizations that don’t work together.

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CLF’s Six Key Practices

1. Assessing the Environment:

Understanding the context for change before you act.

2. Creating Clarity:

Defining shared values and engaging people in positive action.

3. Building Trust:

Creating safe places for developing shared purpose and action.

4. Sharing Power and Influence:

Developing the synergy of people, organizations, and communities to accomplish a shared vision.

5. Developing People:

Committing to people as a key asset through mentoring and coaching.

6. Self Reflection:

Understanding your own values, attitudes, and behaviors as they relate to your leadership style and its impact on others.

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Assess the environment

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Click to demo

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What is the quality of a beam?

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Shine Light

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“Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.”

Justice Louis D. Brandeis

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Balance Beam

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Build

Enable

Activate

Model

Open Governance

Open Source Technologies

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Collaboration Effectiveness

TARP

  • Transparency
  • Accountability
  • Responsive
  • Process-oriented

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Clarity (IMHO)

Clarity = Transparency + Accountability

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Lack of Clarity Example

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600 Page Document

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Creating Clarity

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DEMO:

Click ⇒ DMC Doc Beam in Action

To demonstrate IT enablement of clarity

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CLF and Beam Common Points

  • Assessing the Environment
    • Beam’s database of Community Assets (Search)
    • Find out more about SE MN’s major initiatives
  • Creating Clarity
    • Use CLF’s template backed by IT to create clarity (transparency + accountability
  • Building Trust, Sharing Power, Developing People, Self Reflection

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What can we do together?

You can help in adding content to the Beam site

You can help in validating the Beam site’s content

I can help you use technology to better team (ie, to “beam” attributes of TARP into your collaboration effort)

Etc.

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Q’s and A’s

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