FOUNDATIONAL CHANGE CYCLE TOOLS
These resources provide foundational resources and core concepts to help progress your collaborative change journey and strengthen practice.
FACILITATOR TOOLS
These practical and interactive tools are for hands-on use in your collaborative change practice. They are designed to help overcome hurdles and make progress together and are relevant across all phases of the collaborative change cycle.
Tools & Resources
Welcome to the Platform C Resource Hub!
This library of helpful tools and resources was curated from thought leaders and change-makers around the world. We are working continuously to add helpful information.
If you find something that you want to share, that fits into a specific Phase or Layer of the Collaborative Chance Cycle, please send a link to us here
This resource provides detailed instructions for practitioners to create an actor map, which is a visual depiction of the key organizations and individuals that influence a topic or system.
Web link
2. Building the FoundationsA 3-part series of downloadable handbooks that walks partners through the process of assessing progress and impact, provides case studies and examples, and sample questions, outcomes and indicators FSG guide for assessing progress and impact with example outcomes and indicators.
3. Creating a Shared Vision
Downloadable pdf
This resource describes seven elements of cross sector partnership formation.
This resource provides a process for developing questions that lead to new insights, ideas and solutions.
This tool will help you to reflect on how you are using the power you currently have in service of your purpose, and identify opportunities to more fully use your power.
1. Readiness RunwayThis resource includes an overview of what a common agenda is, and a five-step guide for developing a common agenda with others.
This tool will help you to: • Anticipate challenges a new initiative might face. • Understand why an existing initiative has stalled. • Make sense of conflict that’s occurring in/around the initiative.
This tool will help you to: • Critically examine the dynamics relating to an important issue in your initiative. • Think differently about the challenge/initiative and your role in it. • Identify new means of and opportunities to exercise leadership.
This tool will help you to identify how ready your system (group, community or organisation) is for collaboration and adaptation. It can also be modified to help you assess readiness for tackling complex challenges.
2. Building the FoundationsThis tool will help you to map and interpret stakeholder dynamics in your initiative. This tool can be useful at the start of an initiative when you are working out the ‘lay of the land’, if things go wrong, if there is conflict, or if you are not making progress.
3. Creating a Shared VisionThis resource articulates four steps in aligning collective effort.
4. Scaling UpThis tool will help you to identify what you are trying to achieve, how you will achieve it, how you will know you’ve made a difference, and how you will continuously adapt and improve your practice.
This tool will help you to prepare for a conversation with a stakeholder who has a different perspective on the issue or the way forward. It can be particularly useful when preparing for a conversation that you fear may become heated.
Change Cycle Locator Tool
Take the quick survey to work out where you are on your change journey and access information specific to your needs