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Appendix VII: In Practice: How to Think Like NAKFI
Appendix VII: In Practice: How to Think Like NAKFI
Pages 375-398
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The purpose of this appendix is to provide guidance on "How to think like NAKFI." It provides information on the Futures Conference Model and how to apply it. FUTURES MODEL When NAKFI launched it had a vision and specific goals: to support interdisciplinary collaborative research (IDR)
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The next section provides tips on using the Futures Model and the last section offers tools to help implement the model. Invite Activities for this aspect included identifying topics or themes; assembling an oversight body to develop key questions for the topic; overseeing the call for conference applicants and selecting attendees; guiding conference planning, including format and preparatory materials; and selecting the grant recipients.
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Tools provided include: • Planning Tool for Conference Organizer(s) • Applying the Futures Conference Model • Collaborative Readiness Assessment • Research Orientation Assessment • Transdisciplinary Orientation Assessment • Mentoring Guidelines • Daily Schedule/Expectations of Mentors • Conference Agenda Example The assessment tools were developed for NAKFI in consultation with Dan Stokols and based on the work of Stokols and his colleagues (Mâsse et al., 2008)
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• Why do you want to use the Futures Conference Model? • How do you envision the Futures Conference Model helping you?
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What is the value proposition for doing this? What are the potential benefits, gains, outputs, and outcomes for you, your team, students, and institution?
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• How might they be addressed? Applying the Futures Conference Model The goal is to host a think-tank style conference that supports idea incubation through boundary crossing, creative thinking, and diverse perspectives.
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What is the value proposition to stakeholders or resources gatekeepers? Who can help secure resources, funding, or buy-in?
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• The agenda should include daily opportunities for full conference sessions and small group sessions to support cross pollination among groups and informal conversations among participants. Progress updates midway through the conference and final pre sentations by the groups support sharing, exchange, and feedback on ideas.
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Collaborative Readiness Assessment This series of questions served as tool for applicants to pause and reflect on their interest in participating in NAKFI's unique conference format. Interpersonal Collaboration Scale Please indicate how strongly you agree or disagree with each of the following statements: Scale: Strongly disagree, somewhat disagree, neither agree nor disagree, somewhat agree, strongly agree.
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Research Orientation Assessment Research Orientation Scale Please assess the frequency with which you typically engage in each of the activities listed below using the following 7-point scale (Never, Rarely, Once a year, Twice a year, Quarterly, Monthly, Weekly)
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Transdisciplinary Orientation Assessment Transdisciplinary Orientation Scale The following items pertain to your thoughts, expectations, and behaviors about your research to date. Please indicate how strongly you agree with each of the following statements.
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Mentoring Guidelines Characteristics of Ideas Futures Conferences help participants make potentially significant contributions to issues and questions that are personally and professional important to them. The interdisciplinary nature of the teams leads to energetic conversations and innovative ideas.
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Not only have they just met each other for the first time, they are also responding to tight deadlines, trying to build group consensus, and getting lots of feedback on their developing team idea within a short period of time. This can at times be a frustrating process.
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As you do this, commit yourself to being open to solutions outside of your own discipline. Chances are that even if participants began with a seed idea with which you have great familiarity, at some point the idea will move into an area that is less familiar to you.
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Common idea challenges that mentors can help address include: If you see a major flaw in the approach, design, or rationale behind a project idea, you can help by: • Pointing this out and suggesting ways to alter the approach of the project to better address the problem it is trying to solve. • Suggesting an alternate problem that would be better served by the idea that the team is developing.
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If they were to find an idea that could be realized in just a few months or a year, they might not be dreaming big enough to make a significant impact on the world, so a far-reaching idea is actually a good thing. • As participants move toward the final pitch day, you can help teams to drill down to next steps and begin to think about bench marks that could be achieved within the timeframe of a NAKFI grant, even if participants have a big idea that would take many years or decades to fully realize.
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While these are only guidelines for groups and the process of developing an idea is not an exact science, you can help groups to keep the end goal in mind by being aware of the benchmarks that will come up this week: Day 1 During group work time, team members might discuss: • Key background: Why the particular situation exists • Need/opportunity: Why the situation presents a problem or cre ates a need or opportunity, and for whom • Previous solutions: Why no one has addressed this need or solved this problem before/existing solutions • Summary of idea: Why group participants personally want to in vest more time thinking about, and formulating questions around the problem or a different problem -- • Questions: Attendees develop list of remaining questions, stum bling blocks, etc., for which research and/or group expertise was not available. Deliverables 1.
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Deliverable 1. Draft 10-minute idea pitch Day 3 During group work time, mentors will provide feedback on team idea pitches.
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MEET! Hyatt Regency Huntington Welcome Reception Beach: California Stop by to meet fellow attendees Courtyard and seed idea team members, and pick up your conference materials.
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Seed Idea Groups: "Seed Ideas" Tab for Room First Meeting Assignment See "Seed Ideas" tab for detailed information.
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Bus Pickup: Attendees Brought From Beckman Center to Back to Hotel Hyatt Regency Huntington Beach 8:30 to 11:00 p.m. Hospitality Suite Hyatt Regency Huntington Pop by for a drink to meet with Beach: Goldenwest Room fellow conference attendees, or and Terrace continue work on your seed idea challenges for tomorrow's pitch presentations.
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MOLD! Beckman Center: Atrium Seed Idea Groups: (see bulletin boards for Fifth Meeting meeting locations)
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Seed Idea Groups: (see bulletin boards for Sixth Meeting meeting locations) See "Seed Ideas" tab for more detailed information.
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Pickup: Attendees brought back From Beckman Center to to hotel. Sedans and/or taxis Hyatt Huntington Beach arranged for those departing on 11/12.
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