100 Things Every Presenter Needs To Know |
| Great presenters understand how people think, learn, and react. In this video Dr. Weinschenk shares 5 Things from her book, "100 Things Every Presenter Needs To Know About People". |
Changing Paradigms in Education |
| Award winning Sir Ken Robinson has presented informative and groud-breaking speaches on Changing Paradigms in Education. The RSA has produced an animated version of highlights of this presentation. Here it is! |
Choice |
| Fusing sociology, psychoanalysis, and philosophy, Professor Renata Salecl shows that individual choice is rarely based on a simple rational decision with a predictable outcome. Watch the RSA Animate video by clicking here! |
Collective Impact - SSIR |
Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination. Collective Impact is not only the name of our consulting firm, but is also our guiding principle and approach that has directed how we interact, perform, and succeed with our partners over the past decade. The "Collective Impact" approach is highlighted in the article titlted "Collective Impact" in the Winter 2011 Stanford Social Innovation Review. |
Community Design Innovations |
Community Design Innovations is our signature "Collective Impact" service used for facilitating cross-sector community or system development and improvement. It is a promising practice for leading teams or communities of geographic location and/or common purpose through a holistic and integrated planning process. |
Daniel Pink - A Whole New Mind |
| Just as we were getting used to the information age, Daniel Pink tells us that it is ending. With it goes our focus on charts, statistics, and linear thinking. Traditional "left-brain" activities like logic, analysis, and repetitive production are being turned over to robots, computers, and offshore labor. The valued skills of 21st century will be those of the right brain: empathy, design, synthesis, and contextual thinking. Click here to learn more! |
Interagency Collaboration |
| Many efforts to improve child welfare services or reform child welfare systems involve collaboration to enhance and integrate service delivery and ultimately improve outcomes for the children and families being served. Interagency collaboration may occur among public agencies or between public and private agencies, communities, or families. |
Language as a Window Into Human Nature |
| Steven Pinker shows us how the mind turns the finite building blocks of language into infinite meanings. Watch the RSA Antimate video by clicking here! |
Leadership and Visioning |
| Visioning is the first step in a goal-setting or planning process. While mission statements guide an organization or community in its day-to-day operations, visions provide a sense of direction for the long term—the means to the future. Learn More! |
Medici Effect |
More and more, innovation is springing not from particular industries or disciplines, but rather across them, says Frans Johansson, author of The Medici Effect: Breakthrough Insights at the Intersection of Ideas, Concepts & Cultures. "When you step into an intersection of fields, disciplines, or cultures, you can combine existing concepts into a large number of extraordinary new ideas." |
Mind Mapping |
| A mind map is a graphical way to represent ideas and concepts. It is a visual thinking tool that structures information in a way that helps you better analyze, comprehend, synthesize, recall, and generate new ideas. Learn more! |
Technology Future Quotes |
For those who can’t imagine the future of technology … check out these insightful quotes from days gone past. |
The Divided Brain |
| Renouned psychiatrist and writer Iain McGilchrist explains how our 'divided brain' has profoundly altered human behavior, culture, and society. Taken from a lecture given by Iain McGilchrist as part of the RSA's free public events program. Watch it here! |
The Empathic Civilization |
| Best selling author, political adviser, and social and ethical prophet Jeremy Rifkin investigates the evolution of empathy and the profound ways that it has shaped our development and our society. Watch the RSA Antimate video by clicking here! |
The Power Of Networks |
| Manuel Lima senior UX design lead at Microsoft Bing, explores the power of network visualization to help navigate our complex modern world. Taken from a lecture given by Manuel Lima as part of the RSA’s free public events program. Watch it here! |
The Secret Powers of Time |
| Professor Philip Zimbardo conveys how our individual perspectives of time affect our work, health and well-being. Time influences who we are as a person, how we view relationships and how we act in the world. See the RSA Animate video by clicking here! |
What Really Motivates Us? |
| This lively RSAnimate, adapted from Dan Pink's talk at the RSA, illustrates the hidden truths behind what really motivates us at home and in the workplace. |
First 5 Ventura County (F5VC) is the lead agency, working together with 4 other participating partner communities, including Alameda County, CA, Orange County, CA and Boston, MA. They have contracted with Collective Impact to assist in implementing a “Research to Action” grant to establish the effectiveness of playgroups in the continuum of care for serving young children (birth to three) and their families.
Collective Impact used our signature Community Design Innovations model to work with the Lincoln County Early Childhood Collaborative to develop a comprehensive community-based strategic plan. The strategies identified in the plan aim to build the collaborative's capacity and strengthen the community infrastructure that supports the various early childhood resources and services available to families. Click here to see the plan!
"Bruce Decker has provided excellent service to Habitat for Humanity of West Virginia for the past 5 years. Bruce has always presented a positive, encouraging, and high-energy attitude with all of our projects. I highly recommended Collective Impact." ~ Lora Pierce – Executive Director, Habitat for Humanity of WV, Charleston, WV
