why the strive framework? arguing the “value proposition”

Why the Strive Framework?Arguing the “Value Proposition”

Strive 2012 Cradle to Career Network ConveningMilwaukee September 28 2012

Why is it important to be able to articulate a “Value Proposition” for the Strive Framework?

GUIDING QUESTIONS

What kinds of approaches are useful?

When should we be ready to articulate the “VP”?

GUIDING QUESTIONS

- Participant “check-in”

OUR WORKSHOP FORMAT

- How two C2C organizations articulate the “Value Proposition”

- Table talk

- Participant “check-in”

OUR WORKSHOP FORMAT

Given your decision to attend this workshop . . .

what’s on your mind?

Thanks for that input !

- Participant “check-in”

OUR WORKSHOP FORMAT

- How two C2C organizations articulate the “Value Proposition”

- Table talk

Coming back to the first of our

GUIDING QUESTIONS:

Why is it important to be able to articulate a “Value Proposition” for the Strive Framework?

GUIDING QUESTIONS

“Process” or “systems” interventions are more difficult to sell than “product” interventions.

Urgency exposed by data can waylay community confidence in being able to do something constructive.

“...a great idea can spread so quickly and be adapted in so many ways that its original or true meaning can become muddled or lost.”

Jeff Edmondson & Nancy Zimpher

A sense of competition can control the non-profit space.

Now, the second set of our

GUIDING QUESTIONS:

GUIDING QUESTIONS

What kinds of approaches are useful?

When should we be ready to articulate the “VP”?

WHO WE ARE

Six School Districts Engaged

On You Tube !

From Isolation to Collective Impact

New System in the Middle

Building a case document

Comparing the Strive civic infrastructure to doing the usual

So, we have established that we have an URGENT PROBLEM.

Next, we must admit that

our usual efforts have

NOT WORKED.

we look for the administrative hero who will slay the dragon of ineffective programs . . .

. . . or we undertake

episodic “one-off” projects

. . . or we invest in “silver bullets.”

Building a case document

Comparing the Strive civic infrastructure to doing the usual

Picking up on signals

- Participant “check-in”

OUR WORKSHOP FORMAT

- How two C2C organizations articulate the “Value Proposition”

- Table talk