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Title: Coro Perspective: A Difference Maker


1
Coro Perspective A Difference Maker
  • Allison Hawk Collinger
  • St. Louis Fellows 1989

2
Never doubt that a group of thoughtful committed
individuals can change the world. Indeed, it is
the only thing that ever has.
  • Margaret Mead

3
What we are going to cover
  • When and where did you participate in Coro? What
    did you learn?
  • Coro Tool Kit
  • Examples
  • Small group exercise
  • Close

4
What did you get out of Coro?
  • When and where do you do Coro program?
  • What did you learn?
  • What tool do you use most?

5
Lessons Learned
  • Common experiences across trainers, across the
    years, across cities
  • Learned about the tip of the iceberg
  • Opened us up to ambiguity and getting something
    out of every experience
  • Raised our connections antennae

6
  • Framework for all of my work at
    Fleishman-Hillard pr St. Louis Rams/Rams
    Foundation and in strategic consulting practice,
    AHC Consulting
  • Opened myself up hard work, learned to listen,
    made good connections, had good mentors, learned
    from my mistakes

7
Strategic Partnerships
  • Visualize success
  • Assemble the right people and organizations
    (think Coro sectors)
  • Be the tenacious tortoise slow and steady makes
    the difference
  • Dont take no for an answer forgiveness not
    permission
  • Use obstacles as learning opportunities for
    better solution
  • Confidence and passion make the difference!

8
Examples
  • Healthy Youth Partnership (healthyyouthpartnership
    .org)
  • Retained Coro to do blind research on WIGO
  • Results started a process Rams and Greater St.
    Louis Community Foundation retained Coro trained
    facilitator
  • Fellow retained to create website, etc.
  • Growing collaborative includes more than 70
    organizations

9
Examples
  • Diversity Awareness Partnership (dapstl.org)
  • 89 of St. Louisans said that they would do
    something about race and tolerance if they knew
    what to do, where to go
  • DAP is one stop resource for information on
    whats going on through website
  • Awareness on issue driven by St. Louis sports
    teams through all their vehicles
  • Give Respect, Get Respect program for middle and
    high school loosely based on Fellows program

10
Examples
  • Rebranding for St. Louis Marathon now GO! St.
    Louis (gostlouis.org)
  • Organization (led by WIL grad) wanted to give
    more back to community
  • Interactive research/focus groups conducted
    (using Coro sector model)
  • Broadened mission Inspiring Fitness One Step at
    a Time to start the conversation on all
    population segments getting active utilizing
    all partners (non-profits, schools, sponsors in
    getting out GO! message)

11
Key Skills
  • Learned to ask lots of good questions to get to
    WIGO
  • Identified ways to make connections
  • Obtained confidence in skills
  • Developed a framework based upon the Coro sector
    model who needs to be at the table the most
    diverse group gives the best solution whether
    you are selling a product or solving a community
    issue

12
Small Group
  • How do you use your Coro tools?
  • How has time refined your Coro learnings?
  • Share a specific example of community and/or
    business situation with group.
  • Come back together as group to share.

13
Small Group
  • Report out
  • Discussion

14
Where do we go from here?
  • Engaged citizens can make a difference in this
    country and in this world
  • Coro participants are engaged and have an edge
  • Use your edge to make a difference
  • Revisit what Coro meant to you and how you can be
    a more effective leader reflect and recharge
  • Retain Coro as a tool for your business or
    non-profit making you better and helping to
    sustain Coro into future
  • Find a way to make a difference!

15
  • Allison H. Collinger
  • AHC Consulting LLC
  • 2025 S. Brentwood Blvd., Suite 201
  • St. Louis, MO 63144
  • allison_at_ahcconsulting.com
  • 314/680-1583
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