Tools & Resources

A paper by Mark Cabaj on evaluating scaling efforts.

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.

This 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.

This resource articulates four steps in aligning collective effort.

This 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.

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.

John Kania talks about 'System Leadership' as the leadership required for systems change and identifies leadership as the biggest distinguishing factor of successful Collective Impact efforts. This is an excerpt of a video interview in 2020 with John Kania by CFI Director, Kerry…

This resource describes the difference between leaders who need to be the centre of attention and leaders who create the conditions for collaborative outcomes.

This resource provides practical guidance on how to and when to engage in horizontal management, which is concerned with working collaboratively across organisational boundaries.

This resource describes different approaches to leadership and identifies those best suited to collaborative community impact and systems change.

This resource provides a guide to using the Most Significant Change (MSC) method, together with an MSC story collection guide.

This resource provides a guide to the Most Significant Learning Technique, which is an adaption of the Most Significant Change Technique, and helps to surface assumptions and workshop key lessons. 

This resource uses two case studies to identify the leadership roles, cultural norms and system-level checks that support organisations to be self-managing and nimble.

Logan Together’s 2018 Progress report is an example of the type of reporting that can be achieved through the measurement and learning effort.