How can I educate partners on the concept of systems thinking?
This is an area where repetition is key. Repeat the concept as often as you can and bring it up whenever it is relevant. Having the partners continually hear this message will allow them time to process the information and to fully understand the concept. As they become familiar with it and begin to hear it from other agencies, partners will come to accept the message. How did the Forces of Change Assessment impact the Identification of Strategic Issues? The Community Themes and Strengths? The Community Health Status Assessment? The Forces of Change Assessment helped Livingston County in retrospect. They realized that the community was taking the data too literally, and this led to the identification of more than 100 strategic issues during their first attempt as leaders and participants became hung up on accepting every issue brought forth. The Community Themes and Strengths helped in Livingston County in that it put the focus on similarities that the community and focus groups held i
