WEadership, Jobs & Sustainable Development

WelcomeProsperity PrizePartners!

VINZ KOLLER, KRISTIN WOLFF, LAURA ARON & ALL OF YOU

(yes, this is the “Building WorkforceDevelopment Partnerships” Session)

WEADERSHIP.ORG

519+ workforce leaders

A guide/Blurb book A blog/website Short briefs &

curated collections of media

Social media friends

Video A changed

understanding of what was possible in solving workforce problems

WEADERSHIP.ORG

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Boston meets Honolulu (& Seattle & Raleigh…)

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Build Diverse

Networks

Meetings Invitation Agenda Pre-meeting

packets Refreshments Minutes

Engagement

Hackathons [Fill-in-the-blank]

Camps Co-design/co-

creation sessions Labs Collective impact

partnerships

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Embrace Radical

Openness

“We don’t expect every student to become an Etsy seller, but rather to apply the skills they learn to any entrepreneurial path they want to follow. We do believe, however, along with the City of Rockford, that this will lead to real economic impact.”

“This pilot program has the potential to be not just what Mayor Morrissey calls a “pathway to prosperity” for Rockford, but a blueprint for similar programs across the country and around the world.”

http://vimeo.com/61305313

“Thank you for inspiring us…”

4Experiment &

Repeat

5 Add Unique

Value

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1. Started 2004; Completed 2006

2. Number of steel plates required: 168

3. Size: 33x66x42

4. Weight: 110 tons

5. Designed by Anish Kapoor

Cloudgate

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6 Cultivate

New Leaders

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“Building leaders is not just a possibility or opportunity, it is something you should make your goal to achieve.”

ADOPT A WIDE

ANGLE VIEW

BUILD DIVERSE

NETWORKS

EXPERIMENT& REPEAT

ADD UNIQUE VALUE

RE-GENERATE

EMBRACE RADICALOPENNES

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6 Practices for Building Community Partnerships, Creating Jobs & “Changing the Odds”

Thanks!Vinz Koller, Director, TAT (vinz_koller@spra.com)Kristin Wolff, Adjunct Researcher (kwolff@thinkers-and-doers.com)Laura Aron, Senior Associate (laura@spra.com)@kristinwolff@Social_Policy@Weadership

SPRA.com

WEadership.org

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6 WEadershipSuperpowers

BUILDDIVERSE

NETWORKS

EMBRACEOPENNESS

ENCOURAGEEXPERIMENTA-

TION

ADD UNIQUE VALUE

CULTIVATE NEXT

GENERATIONLEADERS

Description Resources Cited

Leaders look broadly for resources to help them achieve their goals and seek to deploy their assetsin creative ways. They focus on solving important community problems.

- CodeforAmerica.org on repurposing solutions- GitHub.com for sharing solutions

Leaders collaborate with partners creatively, usinginformal networks alongside traditional hierarchies. They make engaging people with diverse perspectivesa priority.

- http://inmaps.linkedinlabs.com/network for mapping networks

- Monitor Institute’s Gather guide: http://www.monitorinstitute.com/downloads/what-we-think/gather/GATHER_The_Art_and_Science_of_Effective_Convening.pdf

Leaders share the role of leadership with staff, partners, and the public. They use social technologiesto listen, inform, and collaborate.

- Kiva.org for small business lending- P2PU.org for un-school example- http://meshing.it/companies for shareconomy

companies

Leaders know their industries and organizations needs new ideas, and new ideas need testing.

Leaders find ways their unique contributions can make a real difference in their communities. Those who add value remain relevant.

Leaders build skills, share knowledge, and create opportunities for others to lead, so that new leaders can emerge.

- AmericanSamoaRenewal.org for video- Prototyping Framework (NESTA)

http://www.nesta.org.uk/news_and_features/assets/features/prototyping_framework - Cloudgate http://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/depts/dca/supp_info/millennium_park_-artarchitecture.html#cloud

- Embrace multigenerational workplace and boardroom

- Leadership as mindset http://arnander.comwww.weadership.org