Private 2021 Regional Learning Collaborative Glow and Grow Page

Welcome to the private page for this year's Regional Learning Collaborative participants!

SESSION 15 CLOSING RESOURCES

• HANDOUT: The Maximize [My Community] Journey Framework Summary and Key Elements (Posted in Resource Library Session 15 Folder)
• HANDOUT: Tools for the Journey Summary (Posted in Resource Library Session 15 Folder)
• 2021 Regional Learning Collaborative Participant Contact List (Posted in Resource Library Session 15 Folder)

SESSION 14 RECOMMENDED READING AND RESOURCES

• HANDOUT: Case Study Scenario: Monarch Town's Introduction to Our CollaborACTION Story: Part 2 with Green & Yellow Highlights (Posted in Resource Library Session 14 Folder)
• The Communities of Excellence Framework Booklet (Posted in Resource Library Session 5 Folder)

SESSION 13 RECOMMENDED READING AND RESOURCES

• HANDOUT: Case Study Scenario: Monarch Town's Introduction to Our CollaborACTION Story: Part 1 with Yellow Highlights (Posted in Resource Library Session 13 Folder)
• The Communities of Excellence Framework Booklet (Posted in Resource Library Session 5 Folder)

SESSION 12 RECOMMENDED READING AND RESOURCES

• VIDEO: Lowell Kruse's Story about Communities of Excellence 2026, https://communitiesofexcellence2026.org/who-we-are/ (Scroll to the bottom of the page.)
• The Communities of Excellence Framework Booklet (Posted in Resource Library Session 5 Folder)
• Building a Learning Organization, Harvard Business Review, David A Garvin, July-August 1993, https://hbr.org/1993/07/building-a-learning-organization (Posted in Resource Library Session 12 Folder)
• Key Concept: Learning Communities, Harvard University, https://developingchild.harvard.edu/collective-change/key-concepts/learning-communities/
• Key Concept: Fostering Distributed Leadership, Harvard Universityhttps://developingchild.harvard.edu/collective-change/key-concepts/distributed-leadership/ (Posted in Resource Library Session 12 Folder)
• Raising Money for Mighty Missions: Steps to Success and Doing What Matters Most by Paul J. Powell and William H. Kirpes, 2011

SESSION 11 RECOMMENDED READING AND RESOURCES

• HANDOUT - (Posted in Resource Library Session 11 Folder)
• Roberta's Rules of Order - Sail Through Meetings for Stellar Results Without the Gavel: A Guide for Nonprofits and Other Teams by Alice Collier Cochran, Jossey-Bass, 2004,

SESSION 10 RECOMMENDED READING AND RESOURCES

• HANDOUT - Discussions to Decisions Design Thinking Approach. (Posted in Resource Library Session 10 Folder)
• What Community Engagement Can Learn from Design Thinking, LinkedIn, Laura Stewart, May 3, 2020, https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-community-engagement-can-learn-from-design-thinking-stewart/ (Posted in Resource Library Session 10 Folder)
• Why Design Thinking Works, Harvard Business Review, Jeanne Liedtka, September-October 2018 issue, https://hbr.org/2018/09/why-design-thinking-works (Posted in Resource Library Session 10 Folder)
• Design Thinking for Social Innovation, Stanford Social Innovation Review, Tim Brown and Jocelyn Wyatt, Winter 2010, https://ssir.org/articles/entry/design_thinking_for_social_innovation
• Design Thinking: New Innovative Thinking for New Problems, Interaction Design Foundation by Rikke Friis Dam and Tao Yu Siang, November 2020, https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/article/design-thinking-new-innovative-thinking-for-new-problems (Posted in Resource Library Session 10 Folder)

SESSION 9 RECOMMENDED READING AND RESOURCES

• WORKSHEET - Strategy Action Map (Posted in Resource Library Session 9 Folder)

SESSION 8 RECOMMENDED READING AND RESOURCES

• HANDOUT - Community Engagement Map based on iap2 Spectrum of Public Participation. (Posted in Resource Library Session 8 Folder)
• Buy In: Saving Your Good Idea From Getting Shot Down by John P. Kotter, 2013 (Included: 24 Attacks and Responses and Four Ways to Kill a Good Idea)

SESSION 7 RECOMMENDED READING AND RESOURCES

• WORKSHEET - Community CollaborACTION Story Table of Contents and Outline of the Community Profile Introduction. (Posted in Resource Library Session 7 Folder)
• HANDOUT - Habits of Systems Thinkers (Posted in Resource Library Session 7 Folder)
• A System's Story Animated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDxOyJxgJeA - 4:45 minutes
• Peter Senge's clear and simple examples of systems thinking in kids and nature: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeOZzMmIekw&list=PLggljHt5Osi8-rrdd_k-P96wh5UEWDuMn&index=11 - 3:40 minutes
• Peter Senge's video introduction to system leadership: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXdzKBWDraM&list=PLggljHt5Osi8-rrdd_k-P96wh5UEWDuMn&index=3 - 2:20 minutes

• A Systems Leadership Workshop by Myron Rogers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKsTMNDjAVI&list=PLggljHt5Osi8-rrdd_k-P96wh5UEWDuMn&index=2- 7:23 minutes

SESSION 6 RECOMMENDED READING AND RESOURCES

• Strengths-Based Leadership: Great Leaders, Teams, and Why People Follow by Tom Rath and Barry Conchie, Gallup, 2008.
• WORKING DOC - The Community Self-Assessment Checklist (Posted in Resource Library Session 4 Folder)
• WORKSHEET - Who to Invite (Helpful Tool in Resource Library Session 5 Folder)
• HANDOUT - Comparison of Hierarchy and Distributed Leadership Structures (Posted in Resource Library Session 6 Folder)
• HANDOUT - Community Development Leadership: Roles and Responsibilities (Posted in Resource Library Session 6 Folder)
• HANDOUT - Community Development Leadership: Regional Example of Who is Involved Right Now (Posted in Resource Library Session 6 Folder)
• WORKSHEET - Community Development Leadership: Roles and Responsibilities (Helpful Tool in Resource Library Session 6 Folder)

SESSION 5 RECOMMENDED READING AND RESOURCES

• The Total Town Makeover: Rethinking Business, Community, and Home in Small-Town America by Andrew McCrea, 2019, https://totaltownmakeover.com/about-%2F-purchase-the-book
• WORKING DOC - The Community Self-Assessment Checklist (Posted in Resource Library Session 4 Folder)
• WORKSHEET - Who to Invite Brainstorming Worksheet: Phase 1 (Helpful Tool in Resource Library Session 5 Folder)
• The Communities of Excellence Framework Booklet (Posted in Resource Library Session 5 Folder)

SESSION 4 RECOMMENDED READING AND RESOURCES

• The Vision Test/A Just Cause: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpzZumZCdWA and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XK-qiQK5Ms&list=PLgCOAz4cqZMROPAsFBt_IWgOmMax6Y24y&index=2

• What Aligned “Whys” Look Like (Insert “community” wherever he says “organization” and you can see how important communicating a Just Cause or Vision is to community development work.): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BG1c2gaeSF4
• The Infinite Game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tRQGWo1p98
• Collins, J., and Porras, J. (1996). Building your company’s vision. Harvard Business Review. Retrieved from https://hbr.org/1996/09/building-your-companys-vision

SESSION 3 RECOMMENDED READING AND RESOURCES

• Story of Tuttle Rural Innovation Center in Tuttle, ND: https://www.brainerddispatch.com/business/agriculture/6885396-Central-North-Dakota-town-transforms-school-building-into-Tuttle-Rural-Innovation-Center?fbclid=IwAR1N3otqX1fZbeYFj3fOsyuPTz3C4QsLjAjqfHbD_humSqZBHStkaeYqUOc.
• https://www.tuttleruralinnovationcenter.com/
• The Third Alternative: Solving Life's Most Difficult Problems by Stephen R. Covey, 2011.

SESSION 2 RECOMMENDED READING AND RESOURCES

• Peter Senge’s video on the commitment to learning and the collective genius: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpiqnCAQ6S8.
• Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In by Roger Fisher and William L. Ury of the Harvard Negotiation Project, 2011
• The Third Alternative by Stephen R. Covey and the video introduction to the book at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcTxpbRVIno
• “Adapting Baldrige to Communities,” Communities of Excellence 2026 Blog Post, 12.28.2020 (Posted in Resource Library Session 2 Folder)
• Systems Thinking Toolkit, FSG (Posted in Resource Library Session 2 Folder)
• The Water of Systems Change by Kania, Kramer, and Senge, FSG, June 2018. (Posted in Resource Library Session 2 Folder)
• Systems Change: A Guide to What It Is and How to Do It by New Philanthropy Capital [NPC] and Lankelly Chase Foundation, June 2015. (Posted In Resource Library Session 2 Folder)
  

SESSION 1 RECOMMENDED READING AND RESOURCES

• Communities of Excellence 2020 Annual Report, https://communitiesofexcellence2026.org/how-to-help/annual-report.html
  
• The Total Town Makeover: Rethinking Business, Community, and Home in Small-Town America by Andrew McCrea, 2019, https://andrewmccrea.com/mccrea-products/
• The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again, Robert D. Putnam and Shaylynn Romney Garrett, January 14, 2021, An Author’s Talk hosted by the Missouri Humanities Council, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADiYlswaSYs&feature=youtu.be
• A Sense of Urgency by John P. Kotter, 2008, Harvard Business Review Press
• Leading Change by John P. Kotter, 2012, Harvard Business Review Press
• A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life by Brian Glazer and Charles Fishman, 2015, Simon & Schuster
• The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek, 2020
• Start With Why, Simon Sinek’s TED Talk at https://www.ted.com/talks/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_inspire_action?language=en
• Top 10 Mega Trends of 2021 Influencing the Future of Rural America, e2 Entrepreneurial Ecosystem, Don Macke, 2021 (Posted In Resource Library Session 1 Folder)
• 2020 Alumni & Resident Survey Final Results at https://www.maximizenwmo.org/alumni-resident-survey
• 2020 Regional Spring and Fall Forums where data was shared can be found on https://www.maximizenwmo.org
• CFNWMO Transfer of Wealth Study at https://www.cfnwmo.org/transfer-of-wealth