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Become an Author ... A community-based collaborative effort Become a community leader of citizens tackling pressing problems facing our community and nation. In 2009 we will be facilitating a number of hands-on, interactive workshops. You and other participants will author a plan detailing collaborative and innovative solutions to address pressing issues facing all of us. Here is your opportunity to be a part of the solutions that will shape the future of our community and nation. The Scheduled Topics for the Series wil be launched in St. Clair County to build a model for the nation: Authorship series topics Remaining authorship series dates and times to be announced Alternative Energy Jobs - A Community Resource Assessment and Marketing Plan of Our Existing Strengths to Attract the 'Gold of Green' in St. Clair County
Creating and Marketing a Premier Retirement State Challenge: Making Preventive Health Care and Wellness a Top Priority in St. Clair County Young Adults: New Ideas, New Directions – Mapping Our Future Younger Adults: New Ideas, New Directions – Mapping our Future Making Education Our Number One Economic Driver Preventing Juvenile Delinquency: New Strategies to Change Lives
Why we are different - Meeting efficiency
- 50 to 60% reduction in meeting time
- 80 to 90% reduction in total project time
- Reduction in meeting boredom
- Equal participation / no loss of momentum
- Capture every participant idea, every time - with ease
- Eliminate some travel costs and lost productivity - your return on investment is immediate.
- Use of technology
- Our own portable electronic collaboration equipment.
- Participants can meet face-to-face, or in virtual, remote meetings
- Immediate results
- A comprehensive Final Written Report of your plan is delivered to the authors within 12 days.
- The electronic collaboration process empowers your team to make better decisions and keep your entire team on track.
- Participants give every idea due consideration and arrive at better, faster decisions.
- Action steps for implementation - close the loop.
Outcomes for the Authorship Series - Save time and money in dealing with pressing issues
- Get to innovative solutions...RIGHT NOW (published within two weeks)
- Develop new and expanded partnerships, personal collaboration and linkages between authors/stakeholders.
Benefits for the participants - Authoring a plan presenting innovative solutions to pressing problems
- The names of all the authors will be in the Plan ("book").
- Potential for job creation is an offshoot for each Series.
- Full participation from a diverse cross-section of attendees.
- Unique, effective process - flexible schedule for participants.
- Service to our community and country.
- Anonymity of all participant output.
- Empowering attendees
- Unfiltered and unbiased results/outcomes.
- Efficient use of limited time, money and resources.
- Investment in the process spread throughout many different authors/stakeholders.
Objectives for the Sessions - Collaborating to identify new ideas for pressing problems facing our country.
- Using electronic collaboration process to gather full participation by the authors allowing them to make quicker and better consensus decisions.
- Quick turn-around of the results assures authors faster access to the data.
Endorsers Any professional, governmental, educational, non-profit group dealing directly or indirectly with the pressing problems facing our nation and state. These persons or groups will provide support (financial and non-financial) for the process. Authoring a collaborative plan Each author will receive a hardbound copy of the output from each Authorship Session. It contains the Final Report with the unfiltered, unbiased results for the particular topic of the Session. The Plan ("book") will be published within two (2) weeks after completion of the Session. The finished "book" may be offered for sale. UNeedUs, L.L.C. retains ownership of the final "book". Authorship series topics
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