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SOCIAL ISSUES

SOCIAL ISSUES

BROADER ADAPTIVE CHALLENGE: 

Partnering to support solutions

for housing, homeless,

and childcare.  

 

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Overview

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As you know, properly diagnosing a complex adaptive challenge like this one isn’t going to happen in a

30-minute breakout session.  However, we are going to get the process started by: 

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1)   Exploring the challenge together and getting on the same page (8-mins) 

2)  Deepening your understanding of the problem (10-mins) 

3)  Reframing your adaptive challenge (5-mins) 

4)  Closing reflection and next steps (< 3-mins)

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We will build on the work you complete today in subsequent activities on GSIboard.com and incorporate it into our upcoming retreat on September 20, 2021.

STEP ONE

Let’s get on the same page.

Timekeeper: 8-mins

Put it in Your Own Words

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Narrow your focus worksheet

Why did you choose this adaptive challenge? 

Thanks for sharing!

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STEP THREE

Re-Frame Your Adaptive Challenge 

 

Timekeeper: 5-mins

STEP TWO

Dive Deeper

 

Timekeeper: 10-mins

What is the current reality? (present)

What are the main features of the wider environment that shape this issue? 

IDENTIFY THE GAP

How wide is the gap between where we are today and where we want to be?

What outcome do we want? (future) Describe what success might look like.

How much does success depend on others,

or is it within your power to attain? 

REMEMBER

Technical problems can be very complex and important, but the solutions are known and can be solved by deploying already available expertise, processes, and operating procedures, e.g. a medical problem solved by surgery.  

 

Adaptive challenges require new learning and can only be tackled by changing people’s assumptions, beliefs, habits, and allegiances. Expertise and existing knowledge may be helpful in solving adaptive problems, but the most critical work is to mobilize and guide people through a period of discovery which leads to a renewed capacity to flourish.  

Use the framework below to create a clear statement about your adaptive challenge. Avoid a technical framing of the challenge (i.e., solution).

What must be true to close the gap? 

What are the technical and adaptive elements to consider?  

As we see it today, our adaptive challenge is to figure out how to

                     against the backdrop of                                                             .

 

 

[achieve the desired outcome]

[the countervailing forces that are keeping the needed change from happening]

Thanks for sharing!

Define the problem.​

closing

Reflections & Next Steps 

 

Timekeeper: <3-mins

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