the j.w. mcconnell family foundation collaboration for systems change darcy riddell june 16, 2015
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The J.W. McConnell Family Foundation
CollaborationFor
Systems ChangeDarcy RiddellJune 16, 2015
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“Collaboration is the
human face of systems thinking”
– The Necessary Revolution, Smith et al., 2010
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Our systems are increasing in complexity:
• Difficult & messy to define & understand
• Nonlinear
• Unpredictable
• Adaptive and changing
Slide courtesy of BCHC
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If we are to be innovative about anything in the
future, it must be about how we work together.
~ Al EtmanskiSlide courtesy of BCHC
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Leadership on Complex Issues
• Requires collaboration of those who have a stake in the
issue and are affected by the issue.
• Requires working across sectors and disciplines
• Calls for new skills, capacities and ways of being Adapted from BCHC
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Addressing Complex Issues
1. Create the conditions for solutions to emerge.
2. Begin conducting ‘safe to fail’ experiments.
3. Observe and learn to collectively make meaning
4. Take adaptive action…and repeat
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Adapted by Mark Cabaj from Mattessich, P.W., Murray-Close, M. & Monsey, B.R. (1992). Collaboration: What makes it work. St. Paul, MN: Amherst H. Wilder Foundation.
The “Working Together Continuum”
Tamarack Institute for Community Engagement
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DISCUSSION:
Why collaborate?
What are the challenges of collaboration?
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Innovation Processes:• Explosion of new tools,
technologies, methods for collaboration
• Labs, collective impact, co-production, networks, ecosystems
for systems change
LABSLABSLABSLABSLA…Buzzwords or pathways to greater impact?
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Partnership Brokering Skills http://partnershipbrokers.org/
1.Negotiation2.Facilitation3.Synthesising information & record keeping4.Communication & presentation5.Coaching & capacity building6.Institution-building7.Reviewing & revising
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Constellation Governance- Tonya Surman, Centre for Social Innovation
Co-Production of public services: Designing & delivering services is a partnership between citizens and professionals.Catherine Needham and Sarah Carr
Generative Social Networks2015 PETER PLASTRIK, Stanford Social Innovation Review
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Building a coalition of unusual suspects: Six Key Themes About Collaboration
Attend to power, diversity and trustCreate accessible platforms & reduce dependencyInvest in the skill (it’s not a hobby)Resilient, distributed leadershipFind, empower and mobilize unusual suspectsCollaboration should be scalable and sustainable
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Taking a Social Movement Perspective…
A sustained focus on power and inclusion
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Who are the essential stakeholders in your system? How could you be
collaborating more effectively?
Legitimacy? Urgency? Power?