Community Beam
(A Community Assets Portal)
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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
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
Balance Beam
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Build
Enable
Activate
Model
Open Governance
Open Source Technologies
Collaboration Effectiveness
TARP
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Clarity (IMHO)
Clarity = Transparency + Accountability
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Lack of Clarity Example
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600 Page Document
Creating Clarity
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DEMO:
Click ⇒ DMC Doc Beam in Action
To demonstrate IT enablement of clarity
CLF and Beam Common Points
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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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