1. Aligning with Nature: Creating a Network Culture
Network Leadership Webinar
Aligning with Nature: Creating a Network Culture
October 28, 2015

2. PRESENTER & PANELISTS 2 Presenter: June Holley Network Weaver
Provides consulting, training and coaching to organizations around the world  
Moderator: Avery Cleary Consultant, Children & Nature Network and Co-founder of the Bay Area Children in Nature Collaborative
Panel:
Mary Roscoe
Coordinator, Bay Area Children in Nature Collaborative
Janet Ady
Chief, Division of Education Outreach
National Conservation Training Center
Support: Amy Pertschuk (C&NN) 2

3. Comparison Organization Network Useful when problems are simple
Leaders tell people what to do
Focus on planning and goals
People work alone or on teams or committees
People need to agree
Useful when you don’t know how to solve problem
Leaders encourage others to act and take initiative
Focus on innovation, experimentation, and learning
People work on many different small projects with many different people
People don’t need to agree

4. What do we mean by networks?
Networks are sets of relationships and the patterns they create
There are several definitions of networks, but the key to understanding new ways of relating is to understand this definition” networks are sets of relationships AND the patterns they create…
These patterns influence the quality of communication and the likelihood of collaboration and innovation

5. Promotes innovation & collaboration
Smart network
Promotes innovation & collaboration
Diverse core
Large periphery

6. Promotes innovation & collaboration
Smart network
Promotes innovation & collaboration
Diverse core
Large periphery
Intentional Network
Periphery for New Ideas
Formal Network

7. Patterns of Network Growth
New hubs develop as collaborative projects form. These projects develop new leadership!
Scattered clusters
Hub-and-Spoke
Multi-hub
Core Periphery
Time
Where most network-building begins
Self-sustaining network
Handbook: Appendix 1
Source of network maps: Valdis Krebs

9. Clustering & Self-organizing

11. FACT: Our networks are too homogeneous

12. 4 Aspects of Networks Connecting People Creating Quality Connections
Convening Intentional Networks with a focus
Helping people initiate and act with others Self-organizing
Supporting the network

13. Network Mindset
Transparency  (share information openly)
 Diversity (value different backgrounds and perspectives)
Inclusion (include people from different backgrounds and perspectives in activities)
  Playfulness (make work fun)
Peerness (treat all others as equals)
Engagement  (get people involved and interacting)
Opportunity-seeking (look for new opportunities)
Mindfulness/ Awareness
Trust (always working to build trust)
Complex reciprocity (giving without expectation of direct return)
Appreciative
Able to let go of control
Comfortable with uncertainty

14. ThursdaySep/19/13 June Holley
Web: (SPECIAL2 for $20 off)

15. Other Resources 15 June Holley’s ScoopIt:
Network Weaving Facebook Group:
Connecting to Change the World
by Peter Plastrik, Madeleine Taylor and John Cleveland 15

16. 16 Children & Nature Network 2016 International Conference
and Cities & Nature Summit
May 24th – 27th, 2016
Saint Paul RiverCentre Saint Paul, MN 16