Preparation for Tomorrow's Presentation
 Michael Kaufman
Tomorrow morning there will be 40 new folks walking into this room who will spend 4 hours with us. They’ll spend lunch with us and then they’ll leave and you’ll be left to make action plans from their feedback.
Right now I’d like to hear from you how we could create a tradeshow in such a way that they will understand the work that you’ve done.
What is this group’s knowledge level of Future Force?
It’s very similar to what this group is. Some of them have been part of it; some will have a good idea of what it is and for some of them it will be brand new.
It’s important that they understand all four pillars. For the people today, it was difficult for the ones who only knew one pillar to participate in conversations about the others.
That will be true tomorrow too.
This handout is great but most people didn’t find it until after they were here.
It’s almost possible to overwhelm people with too much information. Maybe each pillar could identify the top two priorities than try to deal with everything that’s been thrown out.
Is it possible to put your graphic artist to work? So that at the start of the morning, each of the four pillars would have their own white board.
That’s exactly what we had a hallucination about. This is a sample board of what we’re thinking of.
The problem is when we do it, it looks just like words.
That’s fine. We’ll have Lisa help create the outline for you. We’ll have the five teams. Any others?
The reason why we bring InnovationLabs to Nebraska is to help us with the higher level thinking skills. We want to have something that pushes the envelope. We have to do something different than the other 49 states. We need to think outside the box and draws people to Nebraska. We need to show how we are competitive and better than the other states. How do we foster that type of thinking?
Dean and Randy are two individuals who have to synthesize this and run with it. I’d love to have their perceptions.
As I’ve walked around the room and awed by some of the ideas that are there. Things I’ve never thought of. This task can seem very overwhelming and that’s a bit where I’m at right now. How do we get some wheels on this thing especially with only two staff members? I hope some of you will stay on as volunteers throughout this effort.
We need to show how we get it done and I’m hoping we’ll get a lot more details on that by tomorrow. We want to come back next year not making another model but celebrating how much we’ve gotten done.
I see no problem getting this done for my group.
You will have pictures of all of the work that you’ve done already today and you will not just copy the information there into this template but you will iterate the work to get to another level of detail. The process of iteration will improve the quality and depth of your work by quite a lot.
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Work Walls (click on a thumbnail below to open the larger version in a new window)
Partnership for Innovation
Career Connections
 
Talent Pipeline
Think! Nebraska
Future Force
  
Closing Comments
I’ve been doing facilitation for about 30 years and very early on I learned that it’s important to have clean beginnings and clean endings. So I’d like to make a space for any final comments.
- This was a good group and I enjoyed working with everybody
- My brain is tired
- We’re on the verge of learning
- I’m starting to see some identifiable pieces of work. There is clarity that is starting to pop out.
- There are more people who are involved that I expected and more complicated
  
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