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Strategic Doing in Yamhill County

Posted on by Robert Parker

By Bob Parker

For the past 18 months, we’ve partnered with the Chehalem Valley Innovation Accelerator (CVIA) to bring the Strategic Doing framework to Yamhill County.  The intent is to train a core group of Strategic Doing practitioners who are then available to help communities and organizations work on pressing issues.  We’ve run many workshops to date: the Yamhill County Arts Alliance, rebooting tourism marketing, homelessness in McMinnville to name a few. The ultimate objective is to develop “The Collaborative” a group of dedicated volunteers that are making things happen in Yamhill County.  The effort is funded through a grant from The Ford Family Foundation.

Last March we trained the Yamhill County Seven with assistance from our colleagues at Purdue University’s Agile Strategies Lab.  The team at Purdue developed the Strategic Doing framework.  We’ve latched onto it and are now an affiliate campus that can provide trainings.

Carr Biggerstaff, Chief Wrangler at CVIA did the lions share of recruiting participants to the training.  We ultimately had 16 participants in our first Strategic Doing practitioner training.  By our measures, the training went quite well.  We’ll follow up in the near future by running the group through practice workshops.  We’re very excited about the direction the collaboration is taking and the promise of the Strategic Doing framework to move people from conversation to action.

 

 

 

 

 

Strategic Doing at Work

Posted on by Robert Parker

By Robert Parker

On February 1 we assisted with a strategic doing workshop for the Yamhill County Economic Vitality process. We’re already seeing action from that process.  The Newberg Graphic reported today on one of the projects that came out of that process–a Regional Trails project that would link communities.  According to the Newberg Graphic:

“The Yamhill County Trails Collective made some progress in discussing its plan to build three arterial trails at its latest meeting Feb. 1, but a bigger development may have come earlier in the day at the Economic Vitality Summit in McMinnville.”

The table discussing infrastructure included  Chehalem Park and Recreation District Superintendent Don Clements and representatives from the Mid-Willamette Valley Council of Governments (COG).  The group identified the regional trails project as their “Big Easy”.  Both groups have agreed to become involved and support the project moving forward.

We’re excited to be involved with Yamhill County’s Economic Vitality initiative and to see some early success!