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It’s ALL About Relationships Powerful Networking and Collaboration Building By Judy A. Muhn
It’s ALL About Relationships
Powerful Networking and Collaboration BuildingBy Judy A. Muhn
In today’s challenging economic
times, non-profits face obstacles to
serving clients, staying viable.
Budgets shrinking, volunteers
are less/not available and services are
needed more than ever.
You want to grow new
relationships, money and resources.
Grow and cultivate relationships to bring more money, resources and help to stretch what you DO have.
Growing relationships and collaborations is key to finding more resources.
The “Cloverleaf” model targets key
growth points between people.
We have a variety of
ecosystems that provide us
growth points between people
or cultivate development of collaborations.
Looking at these ecosystems in new ways can nurture new
growth.
Integrating how these
connections are made makes the
experiences richer, lusher.
Formal
Needs
Events
Informal
Synergy, Synchronicity
The four growth points are:
Informal, Formal, Events and Needs.
The “Informal” growth
happens in casual
interpersonal relationships
such as building a friendship.
The “Formal” growth is required for organizational management, funded
relationships or due diligence.
The “Events” growth is cultivated through
scheduled appointments
and celebratory occasions.
The “Needs” growth involves the bionetwork that is determined to be necessary for agency functions
and flowering.
Each of the four elements or growth
areas directs cultivation,
fertilization, and rotation activities for
optimal growth.
Consciously think of ways
to cross-pollinate.
Looking for underlying growth
that isn’t otherwise obvious.
Cross-cultivate other contacts
that would benefit from this contact.
Establish roots across communities and networks.
If we can see a
possibility, we can
make it a reality.
Cultivating opportunities for networking and collaboration must be conscious to create lush outcomes.
Use five tools to cultivate
opportunities for conscious
networking that result in fertile
outcomes.
Fertile ecosystems -
“luck” - is grown through the use of five
fertilizers:
These five fertilizers, utilized
regularly and consciously, helps the Cloverleaf to
bloom.
The five fertilizers are
based on cognitive
psychology research and brain studies.
Prepare the soil (your mind). Imagine.
Reach for the sun. Be an extrovert.
Change the environment. Give chance a chance.
Stretch. Relax.
Establish your roots. Build your network.
Us e the Cloverleaf model and the five fertilizers to grow a fertile ecosystem for synergy and synchronicity.
Powerful use of conscious methods grows positive relationships and
ecosystems.
Luck is where preparation meets opportunity.
Luck is a combination of inspiration and perspiration.
Resources flow to the
resourceful.
For more information about this presentation, United Way, MDVAN or using this model:
Judy [email protected]
or 248-874-1602
