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2. Sustainable Network Model: Learning from Successful Rural Health Networks
FORHP Rural Health Network Development Planning Webinar May 3, 2018

3. We Believe…
The most effective way to promote SUSTAINABLE NETWORKS during the planning phase is to support: - - Your selection of HIGH-LEVERAGE SHORT-TERM STRATEGIES that will demonstrate value; and - - The development of your ADAPTIVE CAPACITY

4. Goals for this Session
Refresh on the attributes of networks with strong “Core”
Hear Network stories from the field that demonstrate the importance of a strong “Core” for sustainability and adaptation
Engage with peers to process insights and share experiences
Access and share exercises/resources that build “Core”
These goals are intended to reinforce a foundation of concepts to support successful completion of the Strategic Planning.

5. Sustainable Network Model ©2016 Anderson Smith Consulting, LLC
Scanning
Sensemaking
Adding Value
Leveraging

6. What are the practical implications for your network?
Key Attributes
Relationships
Vision and Charter
Mutual Trust
Agreement and Alignment
Able to have difficult conversations
One voice
Have each others’ back
Not project-focused
Partners and Participants
Safe environment for risk taking
Authority
Front-line perspective
Transparency
Perspectives
Confidentiality
Resources
Culture of Innovation
Knowledge
Assumes change is inevitable
Styles
Leadership Structure
Part of the organizational DNA
Distributed
Shared
Value learning together
“Deep and wide” involvement and accountability
Willingness to try new things
What are the practical implications for your network?
Network “Core”

7. Insights from Sustained Networks
Anne Abdella
Executive Director
Chautauqua County Health Network
Simone Rueschemeyer
Executive Director
Vermont Care Network

8. What resonated with you?
Key Attributes
Relationships
Vision and Charter
Mutual Trust
Agreement and Alignment
Able to have difficult conversations
One voice
Have each others’ back
Not project-focused
Partners and Participants
Safe environment for risk taking
Authority
Front-line perspective
Transparency
Perspectives
Confidentiality
Resources
Culture of Innovation
Knowledge
Assumes change is inevitable
Styles
Leadership Structure
Part of the organizational DNA
Distributed
Shared
Value learning together
“Deep and wide” involvement and accountability
Willingness to try new things
What resonated with you?
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9. Questions and Insights
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Questions and Insights

10. Adaptive Strength-building Resources and Tools
Scanning and Sensemaking
Unstuck! Glenda Eoyang at Tedx featuring The What? So What? Now What? Framework
Rural Health Information Hub:
National Rural Health Association:
State Offices of Rural Health:
Rural Health Research Gateway:
Trade Association Websites
Leveraging
How Wolves Change Rivers (on You Tube)
Network Core
- Culture of Experimentation and Innovation
Fast Solutions for a Brighter Future, Tom Chi
IDEO Mindsets and Design Kit:
What’s the BIG IDEA?
Adaptive Action, Leveraging Uncertainty in Your Organization , Glenda Eoyang (2013)
The Lean Startup, Eric Ries (2011)
The Practice of Adaptive Leadership, Tools and Tactics for Changing your Organization and the World, Ronal Heifetz, et al (2009)
Conversational Capacity: The Secret to Building Successful Team that Perform when the pressure is on, Craig Weber (2013)
Other Network Examples
Tim Size, Rural Wisconsin Health Cooperative in existence since 1979
And website – rwhc.com

11. What’s Next?

12. Next Webinar: Network Planning Grantees
Performance Improvement Measurement System (PIMS) & Final Programmatic Report
May 17, :00 – 4:00 PM ET

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