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 is a comprehensive toolkit for planning, delivering and analysing Harwood Community Conversations.
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2. Building the FoundationsThis resource is a video of Rich Harwood describing the Harwood Institute’s concept of Turning Outward, or making the community the reference point for everything you do.
1. Readiness Runway
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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 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: • Factors that have contributed to the change you seek. • Evidence demonstrating the contribution. • The strength of the contribution. • Identify new means of and opportunities to exercise leadership.
3. Creating a Shared Vision
4. Scaling Up
5. Achieving TransformationThis resource provides an introduction to social innovation processes that will help you rapidly test your assumptions in a cost-effective way.
This resource helps practitioners to reflect on how ready or well positioned they are to work in an adaptive, systemic way.
This resource describes different types of insight, the attributes of a good insight, the place of insights in design processes, and how to create stronger insights.
This resource from Australians Together outlines clearly why and how Intergenerational Trauma needs to be understood in the context of working with First Nations Australians.
John Kania shares insights into why Collective Impact and Systems Change efforts are most powerful when they are conducted at a place-based level. This is an excerpt of a video interview in 2020 with John Kania by CFI Director, Kerry Graham.
John Kania introduces the six conditions of systems change framework. An excerpt of a video interview in 2020 with John Kania by CFI Director, Kerry Graham.
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