Disability Futures

Last week we shared six tips on developing intentional networks:

1. Align around shared purpose and values
2. Know the stage of your network
3. Act intentionally to strengthen your network
4. Hold each other accountable to working like a network
5. Wait to add structure until you need it
6. Don't underestimate the challenge

This week we dive into the final three. Let's go!

Hold each other accountable to working like a network

Networks are very different from the typical hierarchies we're used to working in. And since they're so different, it's easy to fall back into traditional patterns of authority and top-down decision making.

Our only protection against relapsing to old behaviors is to have a clear definition of what it means to "work like a network" and to hold each other accountable for behaving like one.

So what does it mean to behave like a network?