Rochester Program Dates
Generate custom solutions with the possibility to create synergy. Amplify outside the box thinking yet be on brand.
Rochester News Coverage
Demonstrating sprints in order to innovate. Build innovation to innovate. Drive outside the box thinking and try to think outside the box.
Rochester Participating Organizations
Leverage cloud computing but funnel users. Repurposing stakeholder management yet think outside the box. Grow core competencies with a goal to re-target key demographics.
Topeka Program Dates
Generate custom solutions with the possibility to create synergy. Amplify outside the box thinking yet be on brand.
Topeka News Coverage
Topeka Participating Organizations
Leverage cloud computing but funnel users. Repurposing stakeholder management yet think outside the box. Grow core competencies with a goal to re-target key demographics.
Milwaukee Program Dates
Generate custom solutions with the possibility to create synergy. Amplify outside the box thinking yet be on brand.
Milwaukee News Coverage
Demonstrating sprints in order to innovate. Build innovation to innovate. Drive outside the box thinking and try to think outside the box.
Milwaukee Participating Organizations
Leverage cloud computing but funnel users. Repurposing stakeholder management yet think outside the box. Grow core competencies with a goal to re-target key demographics.
Greensboro Program Dates
Generate custom solutions with the possibility to create synergy. Amplify outside the box thinking yet be on brand.
Greensboro News Coverage
Demonstrating sprints in order to innovate. Build innovation to innovate. Drive outside the box thinking and try to think outside the box.
Greensboro Participating Organizations
Leverage cloud computing but funnel users. Repurposing stakeholder management yet think outside the box. Grow core competencies with a goal to re-target key demographics.
Transforming Communities Using Friendships
Mosaic Partnerships Program™
Mosaic Partnerships Program™ is a structured transformational program is founded based on the ideas above and presumes goodwill of people entering a change process. It utilizes a social innovation systems approach to expeditiously build interdependent relationships between diverse people within the context that change is being sought. The relationships provide the bond needed to overcome issues relating to human difference within organizations and communities.
Who Gets Involved?
Natural opinion leaders from the community and seeking unity in diversity of its subcultures or within an organization, senior leaders, divisions or global teams that are seeking alignment of enhanced collaboration and social capital tied to goals. It’s encouraged that trusted diverse leaders representative of a broad range of groups get involved first as they are individuals with broad influence that will stimulate a ripple effect. When a sufficient number of people are engaged on multiple levels, a shift in common values occurs and cultural transformation begins.
Why Mosaic Partnerships™
Traditional problem-solving and intervention places focus on specific issues, which are often points of pain. This focus will often seek to gain a result by the elimination of something else. Set goals blended with training of new behaviors and expectations are how progress is pursued. From this point, focus is often on data collection and analysis of metrics.
Our experience has been this approach can work but is increasingly challenging for culture transformation and trust development in global organizations and multicultural communities. Perception of another person being a good team or community member occurs when there is a depth of understanding of who the person truly is. Sustainable shifts of behavior in people occurs by choice, at an unpredictable pace and at the level of the heart.
Mosaic Partnerships™ by design builds in methods for the development and sharing of social capital. A culture that seeks transformation can only do so if built on the types of behaviors and interactions that precipitate change.
What Makes Up the Program
In the Mosaic Partnerships Program, there are three levels of relationship that are included in the design:
01
Personal
Up to 16 individual meetings between two individual partners are the heart of the program. There are a set of co-created interviews and topics that progress in depth to guide conversation for some of the meetings. The flexible model helps get the meetings started, and the materials spur conversations that increase understanding, friendship, and intimacy over time. The rest of the meeting topics are open for customization and left to the partners themselves to organize and enjoy. Participants are voluntary and pairings consist of people who have distinct differences but an agreement of the greater goal.
02
Relational
Each partner-pair belongs to a cluster group. Cluster groups meet on a monthly basis during the term of the program and are facilitated by a pair of coaches from the community or organization. Meeting topics cover a range of topics such as culture and friendship and there are a series of “open” meetings that will reflect goals and objectives targeted to the context the program is administered in. Clusters allow pairs to process change together while laying the foundation for a culture of learning and inclusion.
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Collective
There are two large group gatherings, one at the beginning and another at the end. The first serves as an orientation for partner pairs and a formal kick-off to the program. It’s a time for dialogue, expressed hopes and goals as well as visibility of leader ownership. A portion of the orientation is devoted to partner-to-partner and cluster group interaction. The second gathering serves as a close of this phase, opportunities for reflection and a celebration of what’s occurred and what’s to come. If appropriate, a final report may be shared highlighting the growth and achievements during the program.
How are Mosaic Partnerships™ Results Measured?
As program iterations and topics are customized, so are metrics to determine results. Results are also measured at multiple levels. There are a series of surveys administered that capture the sense of connection formed between partner pairs. A similar process occurs for cluster groups. As partner pairings are significant for developing new types of behaviors, survey results will demonstrate movement toward that end. In terms of solidarity of goals or discussion topics, leadership will have check-ins with coaches and receive updates. The most significant impact is often once the program has run its course and experiences of innovation and inclusion are traced back to stories of collaboration, new perspectives or ways of interacting.
Historic News Videos
500+
Friendships Actualized
05
Cities Transformed
03
Universities Enlightened
12,000+