Launch My Idea Academy
The Launch My Idea™ Academy offers a comprehensive training program designed to equip professionals across various industries with the skills needed to execute effective project planning and management. Leveraging the LMI™ 8-step project planning process, this program is tailored to instill best practices for risk minimization, stakeholder engagement, and achieving impactful outcomes for projects of any scale.
Spanning 10 weeks, with 2 weeks off in between, the Academy combines 16 hours of interactive virtual training with personalized one-on-one coaching sessions, catering to both seasoned practitioners and newcomers. Participants will master the LMI™ 8-step planning process, preparing them to design and deliver projects that are engaging, risk-aware, and yield high-impact results.
Expect to dedicate an additional 1-2 hours weekly for project work, a small investment for the significant advantage of developing a tangible, actionable project. This immersive experience not only enhances your project planning capabilities but also positions you to make a meaningful difference in your professional field.
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Launch My Idea Academy™ is ideal for professionals across industries including entrepreneurs, mental health professionals/advocates, nonprofit workers, corporate teams, and event planners seeking to create impactful and sustainable projects with ethical practices at their core.
Whether you're launching a new product, planning a community project, enhancing social responsibility, or organizing inclusive events, our academy provides essential tools and support. Attendees should be committed to inclusivity, ethical innovation, and making a positive difference in their field.
Join us to elevate your project planning skills and turn your ideas into successful, meaningful initiatives.
LMI 8 Step Planning Process
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Learn a technique you can use to discover your own and others’ underlying purpose for Y/YA involvement in your event or activity.
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Uncover the real purpose for the event/activity.
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Dream big and articulate the outcome(s) you wish to achieve
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Identify a vivid and powerful creative expression to keep you motivated to achieve your outcome(s).
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Gain insights that empower you to choose the right method of youth involvement and participation that will align with your outcomes.
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Understand and apply Hart's Ladder of non-tokenizing, non-traumatizing participant engagement.
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Learn how to conduct a Cognitive Behavioral Analysis (CBA) that has been adapted to uncover benefits and risks for Y/YA events/activities.
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Analyze benefits/risks and discover remedies to minimize risk and enhance benefits
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Learn how to use your benefit/risk analysis to identify, review, and update or create needed practices, training, policies, agreements, and/or procedures for your chosen Y/YA involvement event/activity.
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Set a safe and solid foundation of readiness for minimizing risk, and enhancing the benefits of Y/YA involvement
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Create an action plan that will provide steps and actions to implement your project and reach your outcome(s).
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Create a project description for various audiences
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Draft a budget
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Identify potential participants
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Learn how to identify the stages of change in youth and young adults and other audiences in your project using the Transtheoretical Model of Change (TTM).
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Learn how to leverage the stages of change of your various audiences to increase likelihood of reaching your desired outcome and to maximize change in your project.
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Learn how to conduct a self-assessment by looking for gaps and opportunities and making enhancements.
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Learn common unintended consequences of Y/YA involvement and how to apply LMI™ 8 Points of Best Practice to mitigate these effects.
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Increase your critical thinking skills by assessing other Y/YA projects and being able to identify enhancements and modifications.