Mastering The Network Game

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Mastering The Network Game

• Paul Davis
• Davis Associates

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Lets Check In

• How many of you are in network?
• What is your stage of development?
• What what are your challenges/questions?
• Pair up - report

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Key Elements In Mastering the Network Game

• People
• Process
• Results

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People-who Is on the Bus?
IN
OUT
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What Have We Learned?

• What does this force us to do?
• Why did we put these entities in the circle?

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What Have We Learned?

• The act of identifying the network makeup
  requires cognition (fact) and judgment (value).
• Identity gives or implies purpose.
• So this exercise forces you to think about and
  better understand your purpose.

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What Is the Essence of a Network?

• What is the uniqueness of a network?
• Pair-up report out.

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Essence-better Together(Purpose)

• Better together at what?
• Or a more important question is- What are we as
  individual members willing to collaborate
  together on?
• Lets hold that question and examine
  collaboration closer.

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ProcessThe Forces of CollaborationBearing
Pervasive Differences

• What are the tensions in your network that must
  be considered in seeking collaboration?
• Pair up take a few minutes to identify the
  struggles, tensions, problems within your network
  report out.

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Reconciling the Relationship

• Without Reconciling the relationship/collaboration
  cannot happen
• Improving the Reconciler improves the
  relationship
• Reconciling is where the excitement occurs
• Reconciling is the Process

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At What Level Is Your Network?
Better Together
Member
Network
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What Is Your Recipe?
AIM/Result
Resources
Recipe
Current Situation