BAY AREA COMMUNITY COUNCIL
APRIL 2020 NEWSLETTER
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The Bay Area Community Council is the leading organization in engaging community leaders in understanding and shaping the future of the greater Green Bay area.
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President's Message,
Dave Wegge
The COVID-19 pandemic has pointed a bright laser light on the relevance and the need for Foresight Analysis. As individuals, organizations and communities respond to this pandemic, all need to be thinking about how to address the current-term, near-term and long-term states. What changes may transpire for individuals, organizations and communities? How the pandemic will playout in the short-term and long-term is unknown. What can you do to plan for these uncertainties?
On April 23
rd the BACC held its first Foresight Network event. In preparation for that event the 46 members of the Network who have all completed the BACC Foresight Workshop were surveyed. The study is not purely representative of all organizations, but simply gives us some of the flavor of how individuals and organizations may be responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. The results speak to the relevance and impact of foresight analysis in this period of the pandemic.
Impact of individuals as a result of COVID-19:
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79% of Network members say their Foresight Workshop training has become more relevant.
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74% of Network members have found new sources of information.
Impact on organizations as a result of COVID-19:
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78% have seen moderate or significant radical changes in organizational thinking.
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61% have seen moderate or significant radical changes in organizational behavior.
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56% have seen moderate or significant radical changes in organizational strategy.
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28% say their organization is abandoning a core part of their approach.
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28% say the pandemic creates more opportunities, 22% say it creates more threats and 44% say it has created equal amounts of opportunities and threats.
These results demonstrate the significant relevance of Foresight analysis and indicate important effects on individuals and organizations. That is all good and fine….but now what do organizations do to plan for the future in the era of this pandemic?
One of the most useful tools in the Foresight toolbox is scenario planning. Scenario planning is a process that attempts to assess and describe a series of possible future states. For example, what are the scenarios around how the COVID-19 may playout over the next year and beyond? How will your organization respond in each of those scenarios? What are the key indicators that suggest which of the various scenarios is emerging? What actions will your organization take to meet the needs of your employees and customers in order to continue to fulfill your mission and vision? Will your budget be reallocated? Do you need to reassess your mission and vision? There are a multitude of questions that will emerge for every organization during this pandemic. Scenario planning can be extremely beneficial in helping to answer these questions. Every organization today should be engaged in some level of scenario planning.
Best wishes as you and your organization as you traverse these uncertain waters of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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What post COVID-19 may look like
BACC Director Phil Hauck has facilitated CEO learning groups for 30 years, as part of the TEC/Vistage organization
Several threads have surfaced during recent discussions with three business executive groups regarding changes in the new, post COVID-19, marketplace:
1.Extensively communicate to employees that your environment is safe to work in. Precautions should be obvious. Such measures will do wonders for morale. Practical examples include automatic door opening mechanisms and increased hand sanitizing stations.
2.Implement situationally appropriate remote work practices. Apply remote working when it benefits your customer. If periodic office visits are necessary to maintain intra-worker engagement, require them. Consider practices such as virtual happy hours to foster employee unity.
3.Recognize that much travel may be easily replaced with teleconferencing.
4.If your organization was formerly dependent on customers leaving their home, change to make in house cooking and dining and video and sports entertainment as profitable to your company and its customers as possible.
5.There will be a reduction of human interaction; intentionally make fewer opportunities for interaction more memorable and significant.
6.Anticipate more acquisitions of smaller competitors. Many organizations will fail because they cannot adapt to change and the new climate.
7.Encourage more innovative thinking; change is a constant.
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STANDING WITH EACH OTHER DURING
THE CORONAVIRUS EMERGENCY
- Contribute to the Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Emergency Response Fund and encourage others to do so.
- Nonprofit organizations in Brown, Oconto, and Kewaunee counties impacted by the Coronavirus emergency may apply for grant funding from the Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Emergency Response Fund.
- Donate wipes,masks, and sanitizer to the Green Bay Metro Fire Department so emergency responders can maintain a safe environment while serving extreme victims of this crisis.
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Achieve Brown County announced the launch of a Brown County COVID-19 Community Resource and Response Map on April 8, 2020. The overarching purpose of this interactive mapping tool is to both demonstrate and assess how organizations from all sectors across Brown County are responding to the COVID-19 crisis relative to the many needs of our community members, including young people.
SUMMARY OF APRIL 9, 2020 BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING
Natalie Bomstad reminded the Board of an April 23 online convening for all the BACC Foresight Network. Tom Schumacher reviewed key efforts by the BACC toward a capacity building grant proposal to the Greater Green Bay Community Foundation.
Guest Jerry Murphy, a graduate of BACC foresight analysis training, past Executive Director of New North and current Executive Director of NEWERA, described how he applied and applies his foresight analysis training in two occupations.
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FAVORITE RESOURCES AND NEWS YOU CAN USE
Recent news stories, articles, books, videos, Websites or venues of interest to the BACC supporters and newsletter readers, recommend by the BACC staff and directors. Also community events of interest to the BACC supporters
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