strive 2012 cradle to career network convening milwaukee september 28 2012
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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