Let’s explore each of these conditions further.
5.1 A Common Agenda Prior to participation in Impact Collaborative Innovation Skill Building Experiences, participant teams identify a topic they plan to address. During this first Impact Collaborative Engagement, the team works to further define and prioritize the specific problem associated with this issue you plan to try to address. Now you need to define a common agenda. You are probably working on a very complex issue that is made up of multiple problems. Depending on the size and expertise represented on your team, you may want to work as one large team or break into subteams. If this is the case, you will want to define the common agenda for the large team first and then let each of the subteams repeat the process for their specific piece of the issue they are working to address. Your teams shared agenda will be the complex issue you are trying to solve. The Impact Collaborative Roadmap offers one avenue to organizing these sub-teams and their purpose and agenda. For instance, maybe we are working on the opioid epidemic as an issue. And maybe as a team we determine that our first priority is to prevent youth from ever having access to opioids. As a group we may identify several ways in which youth gain access to opioids which we want to prevent. We may choose one of these, or if we have a large team, we may break into sub teams with each focusing on a different path. However, our common agenda is to prevent youth from gaining access to opioids. If we were thinking about this from a logic model perspective, the common agenda will relate to the outcomes you are hoping to achieve related to the issue you identified previously. In the context of the Impact Collaborative Project Roadmap this aligns with the first question posed - the effort of defining purpose and outcomes for the project and determining clear deliverables at each phase of the project journey.
Action Item 2:
As a team, develop a purpose statement that specifies what it is that your team plans to work on and change. If you have subteams, let them repeat this process. (In the Impact Collaborative Innovation Skill Building process, one example is the Zen Statement your team creates.)
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