social innovator's sweet spot
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Social Innovator’s Sweet SpotAn Approach To Strategy & Decisions
welcome !
welcome !• Intros
welcome !• Intros
• Not your typical webinar because it’s a work in progress…
welcome !• Intros
• Not your typical webinar because it’s a work in progress…
• And your input is needed!
#1 - DO YOU EVER FEEL OVERWHELMED WITH DECISIONS?
The challenge (why)
The challenge (why)
• As an entrepreneur, there are so many ways to move forward.
The challenge (why)
• As an entrepreneur, there are so many ways to move forward.
• As a social entrepreneur, you’re navigating the complexity of balancing money and mission.
The challenge (why)
• As an entrepreneur, there are so many ways to move forward.
• As a social entrepreneur, you’re navigating the complexity of balancing money and mission.
• How do you ensure you’re taking the best steps with every decision?
The challenge (why)
The challenge (why)
• As a result of all these decisions, large and small, your day fills up with urgent and important tasks and before your know it, time flies by!
The challenge (why)
• As a result of all these decisions, large and small, your day fills up with urgent and important tasks and before your know it, time flies by!
• But when you stop to reflect back on how far you’ve come, and evaluate if you’re really headed in the direction you want to go, is it on point?
The challenge (why)
• As a result of all these decisions, large and small, your day fills up with urgent and important tasks and before your know it, time flies by!
• But when you stop to reflect back on how far you’ve come, and evaluate if you’re really headed in the direction you want to go, is it on point?
• Are you reaching your financial and impact goals?
objectives for SISS
objectives for SISS• Make strategic decisions with confidence
objectives for SISS• Make strategic decisions with confidence
• Lead your social enterprise to sustainable impact, faster and more effectively
objectives for SISS• Make strategic decisions with confidence
• Lead your social enterprise to sustainable impact, faster and more effectively
• Today’s Steps To Get There:
objectives for SISS• Make strategic decisions with confidence
• Lead your social enterprise to sustainable impact, faster and more effectively
• Today’s Steps To Get There:
• Look at SISS overall
objectives for SISS• Make strategic decisions with confidence
• Lead your social enterprise to sustainable impact, faster and more effectively
• Today’s Steps To Get There:
• Look at SISS overall• Explore each of the 3 pillars
objectives for SISS• Make strategic decisions with confidence
• Lead your social enterprise to sustainable impact, faster and more effectively
• Today’s Steps To Get There:
• Look at SISS overall• Explore each of the 3 pillars• What happens when we’re missing a pillar?
objectives for SISS• Make strategic decisions with confidence
• Lead your social enterprise to sustainable impact, faster and more effectively
• Today’s Steps To Get There:
• Look at SISS overall• Explore each of the 3 pillars• What happens when we’re missing a pillar?• How to get to the Sweet Spot!
objectives for SISS• Make strategic decisions with confidence
• Lead your social enterprise to sustainable impact, faster and more effectively
• Today’s Steps To Get There:
• Look at SISS overall• Explore each of the 3 pillars• What happens when we’re missing a pillar?• How to get to the Sweet Spot!• What is missing from the model?
#2 - ARE YOU EVER WORRIED YOU’RE MAKING POOR CHOICES?
the SISS model (what)
the SISS model (what)
• 3 Pillars that frame your strategic decision-making
the SISS model (what)
• 3 Pillars that frame your strategic decision-making
TOOLS
the SISS model (what)
• 3 Pillars that frame your strategic decision-making
TOOLS
MINDSET
the SISS model (what)
• 3 Pillars that frame your strategic decision-making
TOOLS
MINDSET
COMMUNITY
the SISS model (what)
• 3 Pillars that frame your strategic decision-making
TOOLS
MINDSET
COMMUNITY
• Working together to get, and keep, you in a spot (the sweet spot) where you are most Inspired, Focused, and Effective in your social enterprise work
MINDSET
COMMUNITYTOOLS
For Best practice
Reducing reinvention Integrating established knowledge
For Inspiration Support
Feedback Encouragement
Innovation
leverage embrace
sharpen
For Vision Focus
Perseverance Sanity
All together
Isolated and
innovating in a bubble
Passionatebut weak in
practical execution
Overwhelmed without clear
focus
MINDSET
COMMUNITYTOOLS
For Best practice
Reducing reinvention Integrating established knowledge
For Inspiration Support
Feedback Encouragement
Innovation
leverage embrace
sharpen
For Vision Focus
Perseverance Sanity
All together
Inspired, Focused
& Effective
SISSIsolated
and innovating in a bubble
Passionatebut weak in
practical execution
Overwhelmed without clear
focus
MINDSET
COMMUNITYTOOLS
For Best practice
Reducing reinvention Integrating established knowledge
For Inspiration Support
Feedback Encouragement
Innovation
leverage embrace
sharpen
For Vision Focus
Perseverance Sanity
All together
leverage tools
TOOLSleverage
leverage tools
TOOLSleverage
• What TOOLS have you found most valuable in your journey of making change?
leverage tools
TOOLSleverage
• What TOOLS have you found most valuable in your journey of making change?
• What value do the right resources/tools bring you in your work?
leverage tools
TOOLS
For Best practice
Reducing reinvention Integrating established
knowledge
leverage• What TOOLS have you
found most valuable in your journey of making change?
• What value do the right resources/tools bring you in your work?
sharpen mindset
MINDSETsharpen
sharpen mindset
MINDSETsharpen
• What MINDSET qualities are crucial to being an effective Changemaker?
sharpen mindset
MINDSETsharpen
• What MINDSET qualities are crucial to being an effective Changemaker?
• What value does a clear or sound mindset have for you?
sharpen mindset
MINDSETsharpen
For Vision Focus
Perseverance Sanity
• What MINDSET qualities are crucial to being an effective Changemaker?
• What value does a clear or sound mindset have for you?
embrace community
COMMUNITYembrace
embrace community
COMMUNITYembrace
• How does being part of COMMUNITY support or improve you in your work?
embrace community
COMMUNITYembrace
• How does being part of COMMUNITY support or improve you in your work?
• What is valuable about community to you?
embrace community
COMMUNITY
For Inspiration
Support Feedback
Encouragement Innovation
embrace• How does being part
of COMMUNITY support or improve you in your work?
• What is valuable about community to you?
#3 - WHICH PILLAR ARE YOU STRONG IN?
MINDSET
COMMUNITYTOOLS
For Inspiration Support
Feedback Encouragement
Innovation
embrace
sharpen
For Vision Focus
Perseverance Sanity
without tools
Passionatebut weak in
practical execution
MINDSET
COMMUNITYTOOLS
For Inspiration Support
Feedback Encouragement
Innovation
embrace
sharpen
For Vision Focus
Perseverance Sanity
without tools
MINDSET
COMMUNITYTOOLS
For Best practice
Reducing reinvention Integrating established knowledge
For Inspiration Support
Feedback Encouragement
Innovation
leverage embrace
without mindset
Overwhelmed without clear
focus
MINDSET
COMMUNITYTOOLS
For Best practice
Reducing reinvention Integrating established knowledge
For Inspiration Support
Feedback Encouragement
Innovation
leverage embrace
without mindset
MINDSET
COMMUNITYTOOLS
For Best practice
Reducing reinvention Integrating established knowledge
leverage
sharpen
For Vision Focus
Perseverance Sanity
without community
Isolated and
innovating in a bubble
MINDSET
COMMUNITYTOOLS
For Best practice
Reducing reinvention Integrating established knowledge
leverage
sharpen
For Vision Focus
Perseverance Sanity
without community
#4 - - WHICH PILLAR ARE YOU WEAK IN?
getting to the sweet spotTOOLS
getting to the sweet spot
• What existing tools, resources and frameworks have others used in the past?
TOOLS
getting to the sweet spot
• What existing tools, resources and frameworks have others used in the past?
• What are examples of when this has been done successfully before?
TOOLS
getting to the sweet spot
• What existing tools, resources and frameworks have others used in the past?
• What are examples of when this has been done successfully before?
• What essential skills are lacking and how can I fill in the gaps? (i.e. through team, training, partners)
TOOLS
getting to the sweet spotMINDSET
getting to the sweet spotMINDSET
• Does this move me closer to my vision for change?
getting to the sweet spotMINDSET
• Does this move me closer to my vision for change?
• Have I considered my guiding values? (i.e. sustainability, innovation, effectiveness)
getting to the sweet spotMINDSET
• Does this move me closer to my vision for change?
• Have I considered my guiding values? (i.e. sustainability, innovation, effectiveness)
• What needs to happen to create an environment where I deliver my highest value and perform at my best?
getting to the sweet spotCOMMUNITY
getting to the sweet spot
• How can I build in direct feedback from my peers, clients and beneficiaries?
COMMUNITY
getting to the sweet spot
• How can I build in direct feedback from my peers, clients and beneficiaries?
• Who can I reach out to for input, collaboration, or advice? (organizations/individuals, formal or informal, with a shared interest)
COMMUNITY
getting to the sweet spot
• How can I build in direct feedback from my peers, clients and beneficiaries?
• Who can I reach out to for input, collaboration, or advice? (organizations/individuals, formal or informal, with a shared interest)
• How does this work contribute to the larger landscape?
COMMUNITY
Inspired, Focused
& Effective
SISSIsolated
and innovating in a bubble
Passionatebut weak in
practical execution
Overwhelmed without clear
focus
MINDSET
COMMUNITYTOOLS
For Best practice
Reducing reinvention Integrating established knowledge
For Inspiration Support
Feedback Encouragement
Innovation
leverage embrace
sharpen
For Vision Focus
Perseverance Sanity
All together
YOUR TURN! WHAT RESONATES? WHAT DOESN’T?
my challenge to you
1. Think of a decision you are currently facing
2. Go through the Getting to the Sweet Spot Questions
3. Land on your clear direction
4. Take action
5. Let me know how it goes!
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