SPEA V336 Exam

Question 1

Phil Kutzko’s four aspects of a leader’s collaborative mindset provided in Linden.

Answer 1

1. Long View
2. Broad View (include all partners)
3. Deep View (deep holistic approaches)
4. Strategic View (build partnerships from within and without)

Question 2

Why was it believed time was on the side of the alliance approach/model in the Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) case?

Answer 2

Because each campus would have to be part of an alliance to get NSW funding (requirement under the alliance model)

Question 3

7 key collaborative factors

Answer 3

1. Patterns have a shared, specific interest or purpose that they are committed to and (can’t) achieve on their own
2. Partners want to pursue a collaborative now and are willing to contribute to the effort
3. Appropriate people at the table
4. Partners have an open, credible process
5. Effort has a passionate champion with credibility and clout
6. Partners have trusting relationships
7. Partners use the skill collaborative

Question 4

Of the 7 collaborative factors, which is argued to be most important/why?

Answer 4

Collab effort has a champion
- Strong, committed champion is usually able to help the group put the other factors into place.

Question 5

5 qualities of collaborative leaders

Answer 5

1. Feel driven to achieve the goal through collab with a measured ego
2. Listen to understand others’ perspectives
3. Look for win-win solutions to meet shared interests
4. Use pull more than push
5. Think strategically, connect the power to a larger purpose

Question 6

2 components from Goleman that concern the ability to manage relationships with others

Answer 6

1. Empathy
2. Social-skill

Question 7

5 Factors smart leaders pay attention to when desinging a game plan

Answer 7

1. The specifics of culture
2. Politics
3. Timing
4. The Stakeholders
5. The relationships among the leaders and stakeholders

Question 8

How are key stakeholders identified (Chrislip)

Answer 8

1. The influence eachs stakeholder has on the issue at hand
2. The stake each stakeholder has in the issue

Question 9

3 aspects of the informal VCTP visit

Answer 9

1. Health advocates learning problems tobacco farmers face first hand
2. Series of roundtable discussions taking place with strong critcisms of eachother
3. Four working groups –> ^funding in cooperative agents

Question 10

9 Strateigies to gain commitment and a common direction

Answer 10

1. Learn the ground truth together
2. Bring resources
3. Take 1st step
4. Find a common challenge or enemy
5. Use a skilful facilitator
6. Widen the arena of engagement - bring in 3rd parties
7. Be willing to try a different approach
8. Describe the criteria any solution must meet
9. Reframe the goal

Question 11

What is described as one of the most significant aspects of culture

Answer 11

Group members’ fundamental assumption about how their organization works and about the environment that affects it

Question 12

What skills are required to work with different cultures

Answer 12

1. Patience and sleuth-like skills
2. Genuine curiosity and humility desired

Question 13

What did Neighbors’ staff conclude was one of the lesdsions learned with repsect to need identification and the value of facing an important challenge?

Answer 13

Important to be very careful in selected initial projects when identifying the common need when facing a common challenge

Question 14

9 factors in planning/co-locating critical to success

Answer 14

1. Look for partners with similar goals
2. Complementary strengths
3. Generate senior leadership support
4. Have clear goals to understnad how and what co-locating will bring for everyone involved
5. Learn from others who have co-located
6. Create a governance structure
7. Determine funding and how costs are shared
8. Maintain continental communications during planning/moving phase
9. Think of memorializing in a memo

Question 15

Co-location risks

Answer 15

1. Is there a good fit with respective cultures? Partners should share a sense of culture or values
2. What info can/should partners share about customers? Determine whether info sharing is appropriate
3. Do key stakeholders support change? Determine whats best for stakeholders
4. Do agencies’ leaders work well together? Senior leaders at top of each agency should be committed to co-location and to select managers who support it
5. Is loss of autonomy a concern? Must wonder if the co-location benefits are worth the loss of autonomy.

Question 16

What 2 things help reduce barriers and spur creativity?

Answer 16

Proximity based barriers and spur creativity

Question 17

Name and describe 2 types of evaluative info that should be gathered at the outset

Answer 17

1. Degree to which network is satisfying its members’ value propositions
   - Network flying blind if they don’t know about these propositions and how network is working to deliver them
2. Degree to which members are connecting with and relation to each other (network connectivity)
   - Connections foundation of generative network

Question 18

“What’s true in society is true in social impact networks” plastrik”
- What do they mean, what is intentionality employed, including the work of anticipating and managing.

Answer 18

Intentionality is to be employed, including work of anticipating and managing

Question 19

2 entwined shifts that comprise a network’s evolutionary path
- Examples

Answer 19

1. Shift of capability from connecting to alining and producing
2. Shift of structure from single hub to many channels and multiple hubs and clusters are intertwined

• Aligning members involves hubs that help to bring nodes together around ideas and goals

Question 20

Plastrik and raising members’ literacy

Answer 20

Helps to ensure that members who take governance roles will share a framework about how to conduct themselves

Question 21

3 Factors that must be accommodated when managing the quality of a network’s planning processes

Answer 21

1. Process should provide every network member with opportunities to contribute ideas and identify priorities for the network
2. Process should identify and reflect on what’s been learned about operating the network effectively and support continuous improvement
3. Notice surprises and don’t dismiss or suppress them

Question 22

How does Taynor describ 3 accomodating factors for Lawrence CommunityWorks?

Answer 22

“We try to keep all our teams and committees loose and flexible… this creates space for experimentation and allows things to grow and also allows for things to go away when they aren’t useful anymore”

Question 23

How does Johnson propose closing the digital divide can be accomplished?

Answer 23

Answer lies in the partnerships.

Both public and private sector must work together to equip workers with digital skills.

Question 24

How does CFIR address lack of infrstrastructure in developing countries

Answer 24

• Work on establishing research labs for capacity building through collaboration and establishing tech based incubation centers
• Brings together an intl network of govs, leading companies, civil society and experts to co-design and pilot innovate police and gov frameworks.

Question 25

What is the argument with repsect to ameliorating private troubles with gov interventions? (what role does market failure play in gov effectiveness?

Answer 25

1. Breakdown of systems such as fam relationships that occur outside markets
2. Low living standards that arise pricesely bc markets do function well and don’t reward individuals generously if they lack marketable talent
3. Existence of discriminatipon against racial and other minorities

Question 26

Geyer - what solution is argued to strengthen today’s workforce and reshape curricula for future students?

Answer 26

Partnerships with public and private orgs offer compelling solutions that both strengthen today’s workforce and reshape curricula for future students

Question 27

Van Der Wal - What is claimed to be omnipresent with respect to the approach of public managers and their political masters in response to wicked problems (e.g. COVID)

Answer 27

Urge to:
- Simplify
- Reduce
- Monopolize
- Bureaucratize
these problems