Conversation Hosting: Organizational Community Development – developing a community of trust within your organization. This develops an environment where people feel safe sharing their successes and failures, learning together and then coming up with really innovative solutions. At the end of this work the organization will have a developed methodology for working together in a more productive way.
- Deliverable: Perform staff/management/supporter interviews to develop basic issue framework.
- Deliverable: Develop community meeting purpose, frame and flow.
- Deliverable: Host community meeting(s).
- Deliverable: Provide handbook for organization to help maintain a community of practice.
- Deliverable: Provide options for maintaining and growing harvested social knowledge.
Digital Narrative: Harvested Social Knowledge – developing a social knowledge management tool set to make the harvested social knowledge useful. This develops an environment where your stakeholders use community intelligence to not just grow the organization’s social knowledge but to also attract even greater participation and support. At the end of this work the organization will have a developed set of social media tools that can be used internally and/or externally with supporters.
- Deliverable: Perform staff/management/supporter interviews to assess technological ability.
- Deliverable: Develop community meeting purpose, frame and flow.
- Deliverable: Host community meeting(s).
- Deliverable: Document the organizational narrative.
- Deliverable: Develop appropriate tool(s) (e.g. website/blog/wiki/custom programming/etc.).
- Deliverable: Implement tool(s) based on custom fit to organizational narrative (i.e. custom content integration).
- Deliverable: Train community on use of tool(s).
- Deliverable: Provide documentation for tool(s) usage and support.
Speaker: When you ask me to present, sit on a panel or act as a moderator you can expect a unique discussion customized to your organizational needs.
Every Engagement is New
While my title – Innovation Gardener- may seem a little cheeky (and that’s OK with me) it speaks to what I am inspired to do for my clients. Like a gardener tending vegetables you know that every season there are some basic ingredients necessary for a successful harvest; but everything else is variable. Mother nature doesn’t provide daily in measured amounts and my clients needs vary greatly as well.
I provide my clients with those basic ingredients necessary to grow innovation but I am there, like a constant gardener, to make sure all of the variables beyond the basic ingredients are met.
For this reason every engagement begins with a conversation about the purpose of our work and we’ll keep that purpose as a central focus until the work is completed.
Rates
I quote based on hourly rates but sign a not-to-exceed contract with clients. My general rate is $80/hr but I offer generous discounts to small community organizations who are creating positive impact. My rates are listed last for a reason; some work is more important than a financial transaction can reflect.
Lets Get Together
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