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Tools for Lab Alums

The Lab can be an incredibly powerful experience. Many Lab alums worry that they will forget what they've learned at the Lab or wonder how they'll share lessons with others.

This section gives you a way to to revisit the lessons and modules from the Lab and share them with others in your community or organization. We've also included other "mini-tools" to help you think about your work.

As with all of the materials from the Lab these materials are intended for the sole use of the individual recipient.
Widespread distribution and duplication or any other use is not permitted except with written authorization from The Harwood Institute


Aspirations

Identifying Aspirations


The 3A's of Public Life

3A's Self Assesment	3A's Videos
3A's Defined
3A's Explained
Bias Check

	Authority Double click for large video	Authenticity Double click for large video	Accountability Double click for large video


Public Capital

Public Capital Factors
Public Capital Audit


Community Rhythms

Community Rhythms Tool		Videos
Community Rhythms - Questions 1		Double click for large video
Community Rhythms Stages
Community Rhythms - Stages Explained
Community Rhythms - Questions 2
Community Rhythms - Dos and Don'ts For Each Stage


Effective Civic Action

Factors for Taking Effective Civic Action


Authentic Engagement

Starting Points for Authentic Engagement
Citizens vs Consumers
Generate Public Knowledge
Generate Public Knowledge - Quiz
Infuse Work with Public Knowledge


Personal Covenant

Creating Your Personal Covenant


Other Tools for Public Innovators
What is a public innovator? How to think about and describe what it means to be a public innovator

Ruthlessly Strategic Each of us wants to make a difference. Simply running faster or harder won't do the trick. We have to become much more ruthlessly strategic. Being ruthlessly strategic is about knowing the actual conditions we face in our community and understanding what it takes for communities to change.

Sweet Spot of Public Life The sweet spot is a nexus point where individual or organizational efforts to address public challenges also building community at the same time. If we are to build the kind of society we all seek, we must understand this nexus point and purposefully seek it in our daily work.