This week was bookended with facilitated discussions in Alaska and Collingwood on the topics of Collective Impact and community transformation. While both conversations were productive, engaging and challenging, a couple of things stuck out for me.
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Sometimes, a job pays much more than just what’s in the paycheck. Millions of people have occupations that provide rewards that don’t show up on a W-2 form – the warmth of accomplishment, the knowledge that they are helping people, and the satisfaction of giving back to and improving their community. For many of these jobs, the positives linger long after the workday ends. Let’s take a look at just four such careers:
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By now we know that collective impact is often messy work. These collaborative processes are designed to address complex problems by bringing both traditional and non-traditional partners to a collective table. Inherent in this is messiness. The complex problem is often shifting both through the efforts of the collective impact table and also through external changes that are normal to community work.
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The holiday season was filled with books. At Tamarack, the team was asked to read the book Remote (http://37signals.com/remote/). As a team, we work in a remote office environments, separate from each other by distance, but not by technology. As I was ordering Remote, I came upon another book that caught my eye, Humble Inquiry by Edgar Schein (http://rcrcconnect.org/ed-schein-humble-inquiry/).
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On my recent trip from Toronto to Vancouver, I picked up the book Mindfulness. Be Mindful, Live in the Moment by Gill Hasson. Since my laptop battery died about one hour into the trip, I put my work away and began reading the book. Actually, I was reading, watching a movie and thinking. It is typical for me to do many things at the same time, actually, I think in this electronic age, it is actually the norm rather than the exception.
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In December, Liz Weaver and I hosted Community Change: Lessons Learned 2014 a webinar exploring key community change lessons. It provided a great opportunity to generate deeper insights about our work over the past year with the 200 learners who joined the webinar. The dialogue and response energized us with the realization that our growing online community of learners has really become a movement for social change!
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