Welcome to UW-MANIAC!

What is UW-MANIAC? UW-MANIAC (Madison Area Network for Innovation & Collaboration) represents a network of continued collaborative learning and growth. This unique partnership includes a diverse group of UW-Madison departments and academic perspectives, as well as those from the private and non-profit sector. We host several events a year around a wide variety of topics, including the “Innovation and Collaboration Learning Café Series," a creative learning space that teaches creativity tools in an applied manner, a "Breakfast Series" in which members share inspiring ideas and creative approaches to work, and other opportunities to meet and share ideas, both through face-to-face conversation and virtual dialogue. Feel free to utilize this online community to share reflections, ask questions, incubate an idea, and re-connect with those friendly faces from the other events. For additional information, please contact Harry Webne-Behrman, UW Office of Human Resource Development, at 608-262-9934 or hwebnebehrman@ohr.wisc.edu.

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

"Seven Levels of Change" Focus of Next UW-MANIAC Breakfast

The process of innovation is often viewed either as reserved for 'creative minds' or is something of mystery. Rolf Smith, in his excellent book, The Seven Levels of Change, invites us to consider the possibilities of significant 'mind shifts' that begin with changing some of our basic approaches to dilemmas and projects. At the next UW-MANIAC Breakfast on October 15th, we will explore some of Smith's ideas and use a few of the simple tools he offers us. This discussion will be facilitated by Dennis Rozell and Harry Webne-Behrman.

***Bonus learning opportunity! Dennis and Harry will invite us to specifically consider how to take Smith's model and adapt it to utilize in our projects, forming an ad hoc innovation team. The results of this effort will be shared at another UW-MANIAC event later this year!

Get involved! Become a MANIAC. Innovate. Collaborate. Inspire meaningful change.
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