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Building Shared Direction

Regional Alignment Series – Building stakeholder-owned direction

Regional Alignment Launch Series™

Using the intelligence gathered through the System Snapshot™, Collaboration Arts designs three virtual working sessions that help stakeholders move from understanding to prioritization to coordinated action. 

SESSION ONE: See The System

The first session is not an assessment report handed down by consultants. It is a shared picture of the workforce challenge as stakeholders across sectors actually experience it. 

Where Are We?

See the Future Together

Output: A shared map of the workforce challenge as this region’s stakeholders actually experience it, with key themes identified for deeper exploration.

Purpose:

  • Create awareness of the stakeholders in the room
  • Present the workforce challenge from multiple perspectives
  • Highlight each stakeholder’s role in the larger system
  • Surface blind spots and opportunities
  • Identify areas of agreed importance for deeper exploration

Outcome:

A stakeholder-built understanding of the workforce challenge, the areas of agreed importance across sectors, and a shared foundation for prioritization and coordinated action.

Bonus:

The result is not a consultant report. It is a stakeholder-built understanding of the challenge.

SESSION TWO: Prioritize What Matters

Where Do We Agree?

Choose Together

Output: A ranked set of alignment priorities reflecting genuine cross-sector agreement — the foundation for a regional action agenda.

Purpose:

  • Validate and refine Session One findings
  • Identify the most urgent and actionable alignment opportunities
  • Prioritize where coordinated action will have the greatest impact
  • Capture cross-sector agreements and areas of convergence

Outcome:

A stakeholder-validated view of the regional workforce challenge and a prioritized set of alignment opportunities that establish where coordinated action should begin.

Bonus:

The expertise in the room becomes visible. Relationships emerge with the people who will ultimately carry the work forward.

SESSION THREE: Build the Mandate
Our last session converts shared priorities into ownership, commitments, and an ongoing coordination structure. 

What's the Path Forward?

Build to Scale

Output: A stakeholder-owned design brief for next-phase coordination – clear priorities, identified leadership, and individual sector commitments.

Purpose:

  • Translate agreed priorities into coordinated action 
  • Clarify how stakeholder roles fit together moving forward
  • Identify who else needs to be engaged
  • Define the structure for ongoing coordination
  • Translate shared priorities into sector-level commitments and first steps
  • Establish a stakeholder-owned statement of regional direction

Outcome:

A stakeholder-owned mandate that transforms shared priorities into sector-level commitments, coordinated leadership, and a sustainable structure for regional action.

Bonus:

Regional direction cannot be imposed. It must be built through dialogue that helps stakeholders understand one another’s realities, identify shared priorities, and create direction they trust enough to act on together.

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