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AW Network Vision and Purpose - Coggle Diagram
AW Network Vision and Purpose
Social Support
A safe place
Create safe space for EFMs in civil service
Commiseration and celebration
CUTE comments: curious, understanding, thoughtful, empowering
Dumping is OK
Specify if you just need to vent or if you’d like advice.
Respect for the struggle
What makes things better for us? Friends who understand
Access to the Hive mind
Forum to connect and ask questions off of Facebook
Shared spaces/interest groups
Ask questions, answer questions
A supportive community for EFMs to share challenges & celebrate wins, ask questions and get advice, and encourage each other to grow professionally and personally.
Desire to trade best practices and resource with others in similar situations
Empowers EFMs to pursue their potential
Professional Development
Personal Grown and Identiy Work
Overcome Inability to develop professionally across changing jobs (no progress)
Loss of professional identity
Help in finding something substantial
Navigating the New Me: finding or rediscovering dreams for this post; somatic exercises
No continuity
Not working but bored to tears
Concrete Career Advice
Clear plan, roadmap, what to do, ABCD
Are you someone currently looking for a job? :
Networking to find open jobs
How to pivot to portable
Careers that work as portable
Retraining Avenues
Once foot is in the door, then what?
Teleworking Reality
Better onboarding and transparency for new EFMs
Honest about prospects and how hard it is
EFM 101 Guidance
Classify resources by needs met
continuing prof development
continuing professional growth
Craving more substance
A knowledge base to store and distribute resources like SOPs, templates, recommendations and referrals, etc. to support our careers (e.g. how to start a prof development group at post, how to get COM approval for your business)
Find support for your projects, like prof develop groups at your post.
Personal Connection
Mentoring
Facilitate mentorships for individual connection and encouragement
Each one, teach one
A mentorship match-up to form personal connections
Set up mentor system between newbies and old hands (compensate old hands; make newbies pay)?
Networking
Focus on networking
Bartering is encouraged: I can offer this service in exchange for X
Create a peer network to connect EFMs based on interests, goals, and location
What’s in it for me?
A platform that EFM service providers can use to host classes & cohorts (maybe later)
You can promote your biz offerings or make recommendations in the Promotions/Sharing channel
Community Led
Build what you’d like to see.
But if you’re in a good place and feeling strong, please come in to encourage and provide constructive feedback.
Come together to take action
Liked connecting with other EFMs and learning from each other
Natural community builders; aligned with mission vision/values; good ambassadors;
Private groups: FB style threads or Whatsapp-style chat
Start Events
Advocacy and Change
Come together to take action
Create change by building community
Find workshop with post: liaise with CLOs to run local workshops
Lack of trust of official sources
Spur change through solidarity
"Pprofessionalize” EFMs and combat against EFM bias
Showcase the talents of EFMs
Why a NEW platform
Mission and History: FB fading; need connection virtually; reinventing the wheel; need to share info; strength in solidarity; advocacy happening in a vacuum; come together; working groups: result
Research Resource on Current State of EFM careers
Use to collect more info about what people would find helpful in the future
Values the experience and expertise of EFMs, Very focused on EFM/MOH reality and not all of FS
Normalize paying EFMs for their work
PURPOSE: for EFMs to feel connected, valued and empowered; to celebrate success and share challenges; to find solutions through solidarity.