Social sector leaders and the organizations they direct are finding themselves comforting rapidly
evolving, unexpected and ill-defined challenges driven by shifting contexts and end-user
expectations. All this is happening against the backdrop of increasing budget pressures and
having to do more with less. In this context, a desire for innovative approaches, especially those
that leverage existing resources and talents to create sustainable scalable changes are in-
demand.
Organizations that are able to successfully make the transition to such innovative approaches
recognize that such shifts are whole organization efforts. Scattershot training and workshops
seldom result in meaningful changes. Instead successful efforts require shifts in mindsets,
cultures and work flows, in both staff and leadership.
Karkhana Global’s Skills For Social Innovation program is available to organizations looking to
adopt iterative Human Centered design processes into the work cultures. Based on Karkhana’s
TMPI (Think Make Play Improve) toolkit, the skilling program embodies co-creation methods
that give voice and influence to the ultimate beneficiary and includes alternative techniques to
source, identify and define social problems. Karkhana Global’s approach mixes traditional
training workshops with on-the-job “homework” and learn-do-feedback cycles where facilitators
observe participants in action and provide feedback in response.
