Capacity Building Efforts Part 1&2 - Consider your work environment

Capacity Building Efforts

Overview

Please label the parts in the answer.

In this question you will assess how your organization builds capacity.

In part 2 you will write a memo using the characteristic writing style of a white paper to propose implementing a more learning-organization-centered approach to building capacity.

Question

Part 1

Consider your work environment from the perspective of the elements identified in the readings as necessary for human capacity building. Which of the elements does your environment implement? Which could they implement? What would need to change in order to facilitate implementation?

Part 2

In part 1 you assessed your organization's efforts around building capacity. 

• What are one or two things you might suggest implementing to shift to more of a learning organization-centered approach?
• Who would you need to involve to assist you in making this change?
• Write a short memo to that person/people outlining what you propose and why, along with a brief plan for how to implement the idea. Practice writing in the style of a white paper, concise, using non-jargon language, bulleted lists, with a chart or graph to illustrate your point, referencing the literature with foot or end notes.
• What was it like to write this way? What do you have to work on?