Equity is a team sport. As healthcare trailblazers, we must work together to elevate all perspectives and make healthcare better for everyone. We also must combine our different areas of expertise and skills if we wish to make effective change. Successful equity work demands we recognize our needed partners and supports, and that we ensure all voices are heard.
The canvases below are design tools that help users assess what steps are necessary in order for a vision to be successful, as well as what partners/supports are necessary to execute those steps.
Key Resources, Key Activities, and Key Partners
On the left are three boxes from the Mission Model Canvas. These three boxes have users assess the key resources, key activities, and key partners necessary for their mission/vision. The differences between these three discrete groups are explained below.
- Key resources are the materials and internal people that are necessary for your mission. For example, if your mission is to host an in-person workshop, you may need printed canvases, supplies, slides, a computer, a projector, and catered lunch. You also may need someone on your team dedicated to the planning and running of the event. All of these are key resources.
- Key activities are the actions that are necessary for your mission. For example, to run an in-person workshop, you may need to recruit participants, set up the physical space, and facilitate the event. These are all key activities.
- Key partners are the external individuals or groups necessary for your mission. For example, you may need to work with a third party consultancy to plan the itinerary for the workshop or facilitate the design activities. This would count as an external partner.
By assessing the key resources, activities, and partners necessary for your mission, you can tactfully determine the key players necessary to the success of your mission.
5 Bold Steps Vision Canvas
The 5 bold Steps Vision Canvas guides users through the necessary steps of their vision, then asks them to assess the challenges they will face and supports they will need while working through those steps.
Users should start by defining their vision and ideating the core themes of that vision. Then, they should narrow their process of achieving their vision down to 5 succinct steps. Finally, they should reflect on the challenges they will face while executing those steps, as well as the supports they will need. By reflecting first on their vision and journey, users will be able to effectively brainstorm their needed supports and understand the key players they need on their team.
Dot Voting
Defining your key players and bringing them to the table is step 1; step 2 is to make sure that all team members have a voice in the decisions that are made. For decision making as a team, we often defer to “dot voting.”
Dot voting is used when teams need to select their top ideas or points from a large list. During dot voting, each team member is given three different colored dots of different point values. For example, members may be given a pink dot (1 point), blue dot (2 points), and green dot (3 points). Members then place their dots on post-it’s/ideas that they would like to assign the corresponding amount of points to. So, a post-it/idea with a pink dot and a blue dot would be 3 points total. At the end of the voting, the post-it’s/idea with the greatest total points are selected for further workshopping.
Dot voting is an effective way to prevent groupthink and ensure the input of all team members has been considered in the final decision.
