LEARNING TOOLKIT
COMMUNITY BASICS
Culture of Belonging
Meaningful Participation
Idea Grit
Building passion and perseverance to bring ideas to impact over and over throughout one’s life.
Entrepreneurship and Innovation Program
Your E1-E6 Journey
Change Makers and Change Leaders
Growing from Ideas to Impact
Z-MODEL
Events and Beyond!
PROJECTS
Plans of Action
Your Path to Success in Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Your Traction Blog
Learn about setting up your personal WordPress site!
BUSINESS MODELS AND CANVASES
Big Idea Canvas
Fundamental Illustration of Ventures
Design Thinking
Using Evidence and Empathy to solve even the most Wicked Problems
Test Card
Testing Hypotheses
Rapid Idea Prototyping
Purpose, People and Resources
CHANGE LEADERSHIP
Opportunity Orientation
Focused on Potential
Teaming Fundamentals
Applying Design Thinking and IdeaGrit
Nourishing Networks
Growing Together
Perma+
Flourishing!
Designing your Life
Applying Design Thinking and IdeaGrit
Team Cycles
Forming, storming, norming, performing, and adjourning
Feedback
Basics on how to
Conflict Resolution
Managing the inevitable
CUSTOMER AND MARKET DISCOVERY
Customer Profiles
Capturing Drivers and Characteristics of Target Customers
Pitch!
How to and Steps!
Community Mapping
Visualizing Networks
Message Mapping
Clarifying and Communicating your Unique Value Proposition
SWOT AND PESTLE
Strength, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats
Political Economic Social Technological Legal Environmental Analysis
Interviews
Purpose, People, Process and Resources
Value Proposition and Gap Analysis
Creating what Customers Want
Sustainable Development Goals
United Nations 2030 Goals
Your Web Presence
LinkedIn, WordPress, Social
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Creative Confidence
Innovate like a five year old with a decade or more under their belt. What does it mean, really mean to experience yourself as fully able to create, delight, and innovate? Consider with us the top priority of you, our community, and your participation. Check out the...
Change Leadership
Focusing on you and your impact on the world.Identifying and pursuing new and real opportunities. Ask yourself...How might you design your life so you can bring our ideas to impact, over and over throughout your life? IdeaGrit works to answer...
Idea Grit
We use the IdeaGrit model for developing lifelong changemakers through Multi-purpose Entrepreneurship and innovation created through Dr. Sherwood’s research and global collaborations. IdeaGrit is the passion and perseverance to pursue a lifetime of taking ideas to...
Business Model Canvas
What is the Business Model Canvas?Business Model Canvas is a strategic management and lean startup template for developing new or documenting existing business models.[1][2] It is a visual chart with elements describing a firm's or product's value proposition,...
Big Idea Canvas
Generating New Ideas. Solving Big ProblemsIdentifying and pursuing new and real opportunities. Big Idea Canvas OverviewBig Idea Canvas Case Study