Inquiry & Learning for Change presented recently on Harnessing the Power of the Collective: Building Learning Networks Across Organizations and Communities, at the Center for Civic Partnerships’ Organizational Learning and Evaluation Conference in SF. We discussed how paying attention to the social networks your organization is embedded in can help improve your organizational learning. But there are implications that you may not immediately recognize once you do: the networks will ask for a greater role in leadership, they will demand more from your organization, they will ask you to be clearer about the value you offer… in short, they will make you aware of changes that you may need to make in how you are organized.
Questions that emerge might include: How is your organization consciously creating a conversation about what you value, who your community is, & what you want to accomplish? How are you more & more deeply embedding that conversation into community, dissolving unnecessary boundaries, making deeper meaning of your work? How are you finding structures that emerge from & flow back into that conversation in ways that serve your sense of meaning & purpose?
