This document provides an overview of a virtual training on network building. It includes instructions for joining the audio portion of the meeting by phone. The agenda covers an introduction to networks and their benefits, an exercise on how networks could benefit work on health equity, principles of network culture, and an exercise assessing network behaviors. Participants discuss how networks could expand their collaboration and connect them to new resources and people working on related issues. They also consider network behaviors they could adopt to strengthen values like transparency, shared power, and self-organization.

1. Basic Network Training
Virtual Training
May 2018
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2. Join by computer for video, but link phone/audio
● Click Join Audio at the Far Left
Top Menu.
● Click Phone Call.
● Dial In Tab appears.
○ Select United States
○ Dial one of the Numbers
provided.
○ Enter Meeting ID:
281-447-376
○ Enter your participant ID
○ Enter # (pound key)
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3. Switching from computer audio to phone
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4. Record the Meeting
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5. About the Network Building
Project: Training & Strategy
Virtual Training
May 2018
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6. Why this Project?
Matt W. Pierce, Program Officer
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
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7. Leadership Learning Community
● Network: Over 9,000 people who
fund, run, and study leadership
development
● Collaborative Research:
Promoting cutting edge models &
innovation
● Application: Putting new models
into practice to scale leadership
impact on social justice issues
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8. Meet Our Team
Deborah Meehan Monica Tzeng June Holley
Beth Kanter Ari Sahagun Kiara Nagel 8

9. Network Building Project Components
TRAINING
CO-DESIGN
STRATEGY
Support an
Emerging Culture
of Health Network
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10. Learning Goals
❏ An understanding of what we mean by networks and
the benefits of a network approach
❏ Group and individual reflections on how networks or
network strategies might advance your work
❏ Early thinking about the kinds of behaviors needed to
lead in networks and behaviors you could try out in
your work
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11. Agenda
❏ Network Building Project Overview
❏ Networks: What networks are accomplishing?
❏ Exercise: The benefits of a network approach for a Culture of Health
❏ Network principles, values, and behaviors
❏ Exercise: Building network culture
❏ Reflection and Closing
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Networks: Basics
Promoting a Culture of Health

13. Characteristics of a network
➔ Made up of People and Organizations
➔ Distributed Decision Making
➔ Emergent Planning - Learning By Doing
➔ Self-initiating and Distributed Actions
➔ Experimentation Producing Innovation
➔ Engaging and Open
➔ Thrives on Diversity
➔ Builds Trust Relationships
➔ Transparency & Power Sharing
➔ Resilience
➔ Members Talk to Each Other
➔ Able to Scale
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14. Organizations Coalitions and
Affiliates
Multi-Hub
Networks
Movements and Systems
Shifting Networks
(Networks of Networks)
Networked Leadership Can Be Used In Different Contexts
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15. What Can Networks Accomplish?
• Break out of silos & expand collaboration
• Build connections for systems change
• Connect to new people and resources
• Produce and spread innovation
• Increase reach and influence
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16. When to Use Network Approaches: Complex Problems
● Structural Racism
● Health InEquity
● Income Disparity
● Climate Change
● Achievement Gaps
● School to Prison Pipeline
● Displacement
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17. Health is Complex
People do not have equitable access to the conditions that promote it!
We need a network as complex as the system we are shifting!
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Social Purpose Networks Shared Goals
Shared Goals Definition
Crowdsourcing Aggregate Resources, Fundraising
Movement Building Engage members and evangelists
Innovation Access new perspectives, prototype better solutions
Learning Openly share knowledge, get better faster, spread ideas
Leadership Embed learning & opportunities in ways of working
Systems Change Create aligned action on an issue or in a place
Spread Innovation Apply and customize innovations across new contexts
Scale Share and replicate what works

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How Networks Get Results
Scale: A playground every child
can walk to
Reach: 15,000,000 Views
Influence: Auto emissions policies Mobilization: 13 million supporters
and $750, 000,000

20. Purpose: Systems Change
Network of 350 farm and food systems related
organizations across multiple sectors to
strengthen the state’s food sector through
economic development, local job creation, and
improved access to healthy local foods.
A large distributed network, laser focused on
shared goals to create some real impact on making
system-wide changes.
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http://www.vtfarmtoplate.com

21. Purpose:
Systems Change
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Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund serves as the
backbone and Network Coordinator, providing
one full time director and two full time staff
members.
Provides additional grants ranging from
$5,000 - $10,000 to support working groups.
Working groups are the core of the network where
implementation takes place.
Results:
● Created 9,000 food system jobs
● Increased # of food businesses by 28%

22. SMALL GROUP EXERCISE:
The Power of Networks: Benefits and Value
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You will have five minutes to discuss…..
How might you or your organization
benefit from being connected to other
people and organizations who are working
on a range of issues that contribute to
equity, health and well-being?
1) Discuss
2) Take Notes: http://bit.ly/RWJF-exercise-1

23. Exercise: The Power of Networks: Benefits and Value
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Slido.Com (You
can use your
mobile phone)
Event Code:
#RWJF-1

24. Slido.Com (You can use your
mobile phone)
Event Code: #RWJF-1
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Network Culture
Relational
Learning by
Doing
Sharing Power
& Promoting
Equity
Transparency
& Openness
Self-Organizing
Peer Driven

27. Organizational vs. Network Leadership
Organizational Network
Position, authority Role, behavior
Few leaders Everyone a leader
Leader broadcasts Leadership engages
Provide services Support self-organizing
Exercising power Sharing power
Planned Emergent
Hierarchical Relational
Centralized Decision Making Transparency & Process
Individual Claim or Blame Group Reflection/Learning
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28. Examples of Small Steps to Change Culture
● Post board reports on slideshare to be more transparent with community
● Crowdsource recommendations for board members
● Celebrate failures
● Build in time for people to meet and connect with others - during meetings
and other convenings
● Try Open Space technology at your next meeting
● Being intentional about who has access to resources within a network to
ensure equity
● Let stakeholders make decisions
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30. Network Culture Exercise: Assessment
Slido.Com (You can use your
mobile phone)
Event Code: #RWJF-1
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31. Network Culture Exercise: Assessment
Slido.Com
(You can use your mobile
phone)
Event Code: #RWJF-1
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32. Network Culture Exercise: Small Group Discussion
You will have five minutes to discuss…..
What are some network behaviors you could try to
strengthen network values in the areas where you need
the most improvement?
Small Groups In Zoom Rooms
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33. Network Culture Exercise: Full Group Share
Slido.Com (You
can use your
mobile phone)
Event Code:
#RWJF-1
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34. Slido.Com
(You can use your mobile
phone)
Event Code: #RWJF-1
Everyone Shares One Idea
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35. Slido.Com
(You can use your mobile
phone)
Event Code: #RWJF-1
Thumbs Up for Favorite Ideas
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36. Takeaway
Q/A
Reflection
Level 2 Training
● June 20 1:30 EST
● July 12 3:30 EST
● Oct 3 Noon EST
● Nov 14 2:30 EST
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