Legacy: Sustainability in Human Systems

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LegacySustainability inHuman Systems
Royce HolladayKristin JohnstadNancy Tellett
RoyceSearch Institute Coming of Age Conference
October 26, 2006
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Setting the Stage

• Why HSD?
• Introductions
• Royce
• Nancy
• Kristin
• Cell Phones

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Why are we here?

• See your asset-building efforts
• from a complex change perspective.
• How can I sustain this work when everything
  changes so quickly?
• How can I sustain this work when there are so
  many people, events, perspectives involved?

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Agenda

• What is sustainability in a human system?
• What are the components of sustainability?
• World Café

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Sustainability...

• a new definition.
• Its not about maintaining and keeping a
  structure in place.
• It is about maintaining and supporting the
  purpose that structure was created to serve.
• It is about embedding the learning that will
  maintain the purpose.

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• Connections
• To Current Programs
• To Current Needs
• To Community Customers

• Communications
• Who
• What
• How

• Coherence
• Concepts/Direction
• Expectations and Services
• External Forces and Trends

Sustainability

• Continuous Assessment
• For fit
• For Success Criteria
• For Continuous Improvement

• Constructs
• For Planning
• For Resources
• For Documentation

• Commitment
• Of Individuals
• Of Resources
• Of Institutions

Capacity Building All of this is done within a
context of ongoing development.
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• Sustainability requires
• connections.
• .

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• Sustainability requires

communications.
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• Sustainability requires

continuous assessment.
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• Sustainability requires

commitment.
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• Sustainability requires
• constructs

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• Sustainability requires

coherence.
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• Sustainability requires

capacity building.
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World Cafe

• Move to the tables, where the directions are
  posted.
• You will be talking about these topics at each
  table, sharing and recording your ideas.
• You will be at each table for 12 minutes and then
  one person will stay and the rest will move to
  another table.
• At the next table you will build on the last
  conversation and add what you are learning.

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Thanks for coming!

• If you have further questions, we will be around.
• If you want to continue the learning, come to the
  Saturday session and join a network of others who
  are doing this work.

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Stay in Touch with the TEAM!

• Glenda Eoyang
• geoyang_at_hsdinstitute.org
• Royce Holladay
• rholladay_at_hsdinstitute.org
• www.hsdinstitute.org
• Kristin Johnstadkristinj_at_search-institute.org
• Nancy Tellett-Royce nancyt_at_search-institute.org
• www.search-institute.org