From Regional Knowledge Resource Kit

Return to "Developing a Regional Knowledge Strategy" Quick Links Page
Return to Home Page

Purpose

The purpose of Stage 4 is for the region to use the results of the three lines of enquiry to understand what's going on in relation to information and knowledge and then identify achievable actions to take forward:

• What's working?
• What's not?
• What should be done to improve things?

Agenda

1. Sensemaking workshop - full day
2. Social BBQ at end of sensemaking workshop
3. Action planning workshop - half day morning (must be the next morning after the sensemaking workshop)

Key Deliverables

• A set of knowledge objectives for the region
• Larger projects that make progress on the objectives - no more than 3
• A list of small actions to complement the projects
• Setup of a continuous improvement process to take the projects and small actions forward

How to ...

• How to facilitate a sensemaking workshop
• How to facilitate an action planning workshop

Duration

One and a half days continuous workshops. 1 full day for sensemaking, which should end with social event such as a BBQ.

Participants

It is important that you engage as many staff and board members as possible in the sensemaking & action planning so that you can get people working together with a common purpose.

Next steps

Go to the "Developing a Regional Knowledge Strategy" Quick Links Page to access the resources for the next stage of the process.