Our slides from the NHS NWLA Festival of Leadership in March

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Creating Surprising, simple and social shared spaces
for public service innovation and flourishing

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From a seed of an idea between Claire
and Kev in a Northern Quarter Coffee
Shop to a Community Interest Company
in less than a year
We are proud that a simple cuppa was
the catalyst for our movement to start

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We exist to serve those delivering,
participating and accessing public
services to:
Challenge thinking, practice and leadership
Connect the unusual suspects across different boundaries
Create capacity and capability for change
Co-curate our collective wisdom and nurture communities to thrive
Co-create novel solutions that break all the rules and make a difference

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In an open and free way where anyone could
follow the journey Where everything that was
developed was open source and free to be used
by anyone Where the group were true
collaborators In a way that successes and
failures where equally welcome opportunities to
learnWhere the process of collaborating in this
new and free way could be observed, tested
and understood By embracing the WorldBlu
principles for freedom based and democratic
organisations
How we work
Serve public services at all levels and places
Works on the challenges that public services are
facing without the constraints of being within the
system Crowdsource the challenges to work on
to serve public services in a different and freer
space Actively encourages challenge, new
thinking and learning from when things don’t
work out as expected Brings together the
unusual suspects, thinking and approaches and
allows the magic to unfold
What we do
Collaborate Out Loud communities are a democratic community of innovative and generous public service
collaborators who work out loud to hack challenges, hatch new thinking, experiment with implementation and
prototype and spread impactful new ideas that will enable the changing public services landscape to get further
faster and embracing the power of new ideas, collaboration and democracy
Collaborate Out Loud’s Community Manifesto

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surprising
we do the unexpected. This
might be bring in practice and
thinking from unusual places
or helping people to connect
across unusual boundaries.
simple
we know the world is
complicated enough so we
are easy to work with,
straightforward and keep
things as simple as we can,
believing that less can be
more
social
we work out loud, share,
work with others and
connect with existing
agendas and ideas. We lead
with generosity, openness
and trust
Collaborate Out Loud’s
Values:

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Embrace and harness the
energy and magic of
difference and the crowd

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Create surprising, simple,
and social spaces between
the formal structures and
informal networks

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Spend time building a
community, trust, and a
shared intent where people
bring their whole selves

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Embrace the principles of
transparency, democracy,
and openness

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Be social, share with
generosity and kindness

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Work on real and often
complex challenges
collaboratively, sense
making through
meaningful conversations
How could you use Collaborate Out Loud?

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Borrow learning and
thinking from anywhere
and everywhere to learn
collectively
What have you learnt in one context that
you could take to another?

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Co-create novel solutions
and ideas to tackle
collective challenge
CARE AT HOME – Let’s do a rapid ideas
generation!

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Rapidly test ideas and
iterate them together using
technology to enable
collaboration
Share an idea you had with someone
and get some feedback – write down any
new insights

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Work out loud as you go —
attributing ideas and
inspirations
What or who inspires you? Share this via
social media if you can #CollabOutLoud
#NWFoL

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Spread the best ideas and
encourage adoption (as
well as the learning from
what didn’t work) far and
wide
Share your best failure

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You are invited to take a
glow band to show your
commitment to
experimenting with the
principles of Collaborating
Out Loud
Community Commitment

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We would love to talk to you about how we
can help:
Whether you want to:
• Attend or set up a Collaborate Out
Loud Community where you live,
work, play or study
• Find out we can help you with your
public service challenge wherever you
live through a coffeehouse challenge
• Are interested in funding our work
We have a number of way you can
connect with us
Email: Hello@CollaborateOutLoud.org
Call: 07464 612 568
Twitter: @CollabOutLoud #CollabOutLoud
Web: CollaborateOutLoud.org