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The Zoom link is</span><span class=yiv7376248150><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"ArialMT",serif'> </span></span><span class=yiv7376248150><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:blue'><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/j/706881427" target="_blank"><span style='color:purple'>https://us02web.zoom.us/j/706881427</span></a></span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Our work on an assessment tool based on the Social Process Triangles continues. Since our last post (below) we have a list of brainstormed questions for each of the 9 arenas (see brainstorm of questions and other info here: </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KeF_lWg8Rj2UeAccxB1olew_zq3mzN6UkDHHlu3QFdw/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank"><span lang=EN-US>https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KeF_lWg8Rj2UeAccxB1olew_zq3mzN6UkDHHlu3QFdw/edit?usp=sharing</span></a>).</span><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>At the 6 April session we plan to work in three groups (assuming sufficient numbers) to organise the brainstormed questions in an ORID sequence, editing and adding questions as necessary to finalise 9 conversation constructs that could be piloted by a few ICAs.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Thanking you in anticipation,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>The ICA Organisation Sustainability Team<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> Kevin Balm <<a href="mailto:balmkevin@gmail.com" target="_blank">balmkevin@gmail.com</a>> <br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, 7 February 2022 12:30 PM<br><b>To:</b> ICA Dialogue <<a href="mailto:dialogue-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank">dialogue-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> FW: An invitation from the ICA Organisation Sustainability Team</span><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US>Dear Colleagues</span><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US>The ICA Organisation Sustainability Team is one of several teams initiated at the ICAI July 2022 General Assembly. The team focused on developing a set of triangles in the style of the Social Process triangles as a comprehensive screen for describing the sustainability of an ICA organisation. </span><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US>This is an invitation to colleagues from Member ICAI organisations and the wider ICA community to engage in this next phase of the team’s work. </span><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US>At its most recent meeting the team turned its attention to developing a self-assessment tool based on the triangles. Our current image is the self-assessment would take the form of a series of Focused Conversations on each of the dynamics of Economic Sufficiency, Organisation Resilience and Mission Relevance. The team developed a template and applied it to one of the nine arenas (page 1 of document via the link below).</span><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US>Firstly, we want to ask you to brainstorm questions to frame each of the nine conversations (page 2 of document via the link below). A draft template for ‘Funding Diversity” has been developed as an example. You can see the draft and contribute your questions in all 9 arenas in this Google document link:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KeF_lWg8Rj2UeAccxB1olew_zq3mzN6UkDHHlu3QFdw/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank"><span lang=EN-US>https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KeF_lWg8Rj2UeAccxB1olew_zq3mzN6UkDHHlu3QFdw/edit?usp=sharing</span></a> <span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US>Secondly, you are invited to attend the team’s next meeting, 2 March 2022 at noon Lome, Togo time (GMT+0) to help refine the design of the conversations.</span><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US>Thank you.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US>The ICA Organisation Sustainability Team</span><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shapetype id="_x0000_t75" coordsize="21600,21600" o:spt="75" o:preferrelative="t" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" filled="f" stroked="f">
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