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Module IV - E
Team Time: Assessing the Community Beyond the Partnership
Major Sections
Day and Time
Day 4, Thursday, 3:30 p.m.-5:45 p.m. (2.25 hours)
Purpose
The success of the partnerships depends in part on stakeholder satisfaction,
both internal and external. The purpose of this session is to extend the
teams' planning perspective to include important aspects of outside organizations
and groups that have a stake in the work of the partnership. Taken together,
such groups constitute the partnership's external environment. These organizations
and groups present both opportunities for, and threats to, what the partnership
is trying to accomplish.
Assessing the opportunities and threats depends on an active scanning
of the environment. The aim of this unit is that key partnership decision
makers periodically and systematically scan their environments, identify
and determine the interests of the stakeholders in the partnerships, assess
these interests, and apply collective problem-solving efforts to the opportunities
and threats posed.
Learning Objectives
Participants will be able to:
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Describe and use a process of identifying and analyzing those organizations
and individuals who have a stake ("stakeholders") in the work of their
partnership.
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Identify and analyze the interests of the stakeholders in the partnership.
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Assess the threats and opportunities presented to the partnership by its
stakeholders.
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Use an organized problem-solving approach to address the opportunities
and threats posed by stakeholders.
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Transfer and extend the use of their newly acquired skills to their partnerships,
communities, and home organizations.
Linkages with Preceding and Following Sessions
This unit and Unit 4C are both team meetings, each with a different but
related focus. Unit 4C brought a variety of ideas from the concurrent workshops
on the community aspect of the partnership's external environment. This
unit broadens the notion of the world external to the partnership to include
not only communities but also local, regional, State, and national organizations
and Government agencies.
On Day 2, the teams analyzed their internal environment, i.e., their
own partnership's strengths and weaknesses. A strategic approach to planning
involves analysis of the external environment of the partnerships as well.
Thus, this session is linked logically to the modules of Day 2. Since the
external environment includes communities and groups outside of the partnership,
this session is also tied to earlier units on community development, cultural
consciousness, and community mobilization.
Materials in Participant Manuals
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Transparencies
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Handouts
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HO-1: Stakeholder-Mapping Worksheet
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HO-2: Problem-Solving Worksheet