Ada Jo Mann, Christine Whitney Sanchez Presentation at the #2012waic Conference - Ghent, Belgium

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Stakeholder Engagement:
Connecting Strengths to Create
Synergy and Scale
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2. Your Facilitators
Christine Whitney Sanchez
Arizona
480.759-0262
christine@innovationpartners.com
Ada Jo Mann
Washington, DC
202.363.9292
adajo@innovationpartners.com
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3. Our Time Together
! Communicate our enthusiasm for the power of the
AI Summit to engage and inspire diverse
stakeholders
! Tell our stories of the AI Summit in action
! Hear your stories of transformative moments of
engaging stakeholders
! Collectively consider the next level of innovations
for engaging stakeholders in the co-creation of
their most desired future
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4. Experience With AI?
Please stand up!
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5. Who Are We?
! How Many Continents Represented?
! Anyone new to AI?
! More than 5 years?
! More than 10 years?
! Present at how many AI world conferences?
! Participant in an AI Summit?
! Designer/facilitator of an AI Summit?
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6. The AI Summit
Differentiating Factors
! The Whole System participates
! Future Scenarios are put into an historical and
global perspective
! People Self-Manage their work and use Dialogue
as the main tool
! There is a collective search for Common Ground
! Based on the principles of Appreciative Inquiry
! Results in Inspired Action on behalf of the whole
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7. 2008 Girl Scout National
Convention - AI with 10,000
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8.
Opening Night
10,000 Interviews
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9. Don t know how to text?
Ask a girl!
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10. Interview Themes
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11. A Consultative Summit on
the Future of Liberia s Forests
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12. AI Principles at the
Liberia Summit
AI PRINCIPLES DEFINITION LIBERIA SUMMIT
Constructionist Principle Knowledge and destiny Involving stakeholders
are interwoven. The and community
way we know is fateful members grounded
USAID’s future
investment in local
experience and
wisdom
Principle of Simultaneity Inquiry and change are The Discovery questions
not separate. Inquiry is stimulated awareness
intervention about the importance
of the forest in the past,
while creating hope for
preserving it and
nurturing it in the future
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13. AI Principles at the
Liberia Summit
AI PRINCIPLES DEFINITION LIBERIA SUMMIT
Anticipatory Principle Our images of the The act of imagining a
future guide current preferred future for the
behavior. Positive forest has an
image, positive action immediate, positive
influence and gets us
ready for collaborative
action
Poetic Principle What we choose to By engaging
focus on grows stakeholders, future
commitment to
outcome increases
Positive Principle We move in the A focus on strengths
direction of the and assets begins to
questions we ask change the paradigm
from dependency to
hope, commitment
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14. Engaging Stakeholders
1. Form a group of four.
! In your groups, take 1-minute each to share
a story about a time when you experienced
the magic of engaging diverse stakeholders
for a common purpose.
1 Minute Each
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15. Engaging Stakeholders
cont d
2. Rotate to new group and re-tell same story
! Note how your story changed – even in
slight ways – and the changes that
occurred in you the second time around
1 Minute Each
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16. Engaging Stakeholders
cont d
3. Rotate to new group and re-tell same story
for the third time
1 Minute Each
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17. Engaging Stakeholders
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4. Now go stand next to the person whose
story was most interesting or compelling
for you.
! Touch that person on the shoulder.
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18. Engaging Stakeholders
cont d
! Let’s hear the stories with the
most fans gathered around
them.
! What made them so
interesting or compelling?
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19. The Magic of AI Summits
Why They Work
! They are quicker
! They produce widespread commitment and
engagement
! They provide for immediate and broad
access to information and innovation
! They generate system-wide capacity for
creating the desired culture shift
! They promote a total organization
mindset.
! They result in inspired action
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20. Scaling Up and Innovation
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21. Rapid Prototyping for Scaling
Up and Innovation
1. Reflect on the stories you ve heard and your
own experience with large-scale AI.
2. Capture your idea on an index card for
scaling up and innovating AI Summits
! Suggests how to bring the idea alive
! Keep the idea short, specific, clear, and
legible
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22. Admire your brilliance!
! Let go!
! Turn card face down
! Launch your idea to the world
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23. Mill & Swap
! Mill around
! Exchange your cards with each other
! Don t read the cards – keep them face down
! Immediately exchange with someone else
! Continue milling & switching until I raise my
hand
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24. Find a partner
! Introduce yourself
! Objectively review both ideas
! Score ideas
! Split up 7 points between the cards
! Whole numbers only
! Record score on back of cards
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25. Score ideas
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26. Mill & Swap
! Mill around
! Exchange your cards with each other
! Don t read the cards – keep them face down
! Immediately exchange with someone else
! Continue milling & switching until I raise my
hand
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27. New Partner 2
! Introduce yourself
! Objectively review both ideas
! Score ideas
! Split up 7 points between the cards
! Whole numbers only
! Record score on back of cards
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28. Score ideas
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29. Mill & Swap
! Mill around
! Exchange your cards with each other
! Don t read the cards – keep them face down
! Immediately exchange with someone else
! Continue milling & switching until I raise my
hand
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30. New Partner 3
! Introduce yourself
! Objectively review both ideas
! Score ideas
! Split up 7 points between the cards
! Whole numbers only
! Record score on back of cards
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31. Score ideas
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32. Mill & Swap
! Mill around
! Exchange your cards with each other
! Don t read the cards – keep them face down
! Immediately exchange with someone else
! Continue milling & switching until I raise my
hand
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33. New Partner 4
! Introduce yourself
! Objectively review both ideas
! Score ideas
! Split up 7 points between the cards
! Whole numbers only
! Record score on back of cards
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34. Score ideas
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35. Mill & Swap
! Mill around
! Exchange your cards with each other
! Don t read the cards – keep them face down
! Immediately exchange with someone else
! Continue milling & switching until I raise my
hand
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36. New Partner 5
! Introduce yourself
! Objectively review both ideas
! Score ideas
! Split up 7 points between the cards
! Whole numbers only
! Record score on back of cards
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37. Score ideas
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38. Tally Scores
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39. The idea that found you
! Come to the front of the room if the card you
are holding totals……..
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40. The idea that found you
! Come to the front of the room if the card you
are holding totals……..
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41. Reflections
! What had meaning for you?
! What surprised you?
! What got you moving?
! What will you use in your life and work?
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42. Thanks for the Synergies!
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