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I-OpeN Training
I-Open professional development curriculum is designed to help people, communities and regions build collective capacity in Open Source Economic Development. We are focused on developing and distributing the leadership development and skills training topics listed below:
- How To Develop a Network Mindset -- In Open Source Economic Development it's critical to recognize the cognitive shifts we need to make - from a scarcity mindset to one of abundance.
- What's Your Theory of Change? Resilient organizations understand how change occurs in technology-based community and economic development. They make strategic investments in capacity building skills to positively affect education, economic and workforce development.
- How To Design Your Strategic Framework -- Relevant organizations are guided by the Innovation Framework, a heuristic model of strategic investment in Open Source Economic Development to identify new opportunities and position assets.
- How To Conduct Participatory Narrative Inquiry -- There isn't a culture in the world that doesn't tell stories. The stories we tell carry critical information about the context and culture in which we live, and about our understanding of what is going on around us every day. Our stories point to the most promising ideas for addressing our most complex challenges.
- How To Facilitate Collaborative Conversations -- We design and conduct conversation that is focused on fully considering the ideas of others, and generating new learning and doing together.
- How To Develop Public-Private Partnerships -- No one organization can respond to imploding social, economic and environmental systems and exploding humanitarian needs. Sharing and collaboration of knowledge, skills and resources is paramount to every citizen's well-being and our planet's survival.
- How To Launch a Civic Forum -- We train, teach and guide leaders to establish local Civic Forums. Civic Forums are regular meetings in a space where people gather to think, do, and learn together.
- How To Form Integrated Improvement Initiatives -- We all deal with many different forces in society - housing foreclosure crises, job loss, devastation due to severe drought or mega storms, or serious chronic illness. We teach different ways to think about and respond to the main types of challenges we face in community and organizational change. These different kinds of responses improve our chances of successful outcomes - even in the most complex situations.
- Team Building, Action Planning, Strategic Planning & Fund-Raising -- How to hone things down to align objectives and activities in any endeavor to yield desired outcomes.
- How To Work At Scale -- Relationship-based economies of thriving communities emerge and grow by incorporating features of scale such as technology infrastructure, standards, purposes, values and goals.
- How To Generate Community Data -- With the advent of the social web, every business, organization and institution has the opportunity to generate quality data to attract and educate audiences in ways that build trust, respect and strategic value in emerging economies.
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