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 video discusses why the often counter-intuitive approach of actively seeking out difference is helpful in the context of cross-cultural partnering. Deep Collaboration is a way of working that was created by First Nations and other Multicultural Australians to find new ways to work and…
Deep Collaboration
2. Building the FoundationsThis resource explains the importance of allowing the process and results of collaboration to emerge, as distinct from applying pre-set solutions.
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3. Creating a Shared VisionA worksheet from Diamond Leadership that helps in mapping your different types of power - personal and positional. Use this worksheet to identify and cultivate your specific base of power, so you can remain effective and resilient, regardless of the challenges you face.
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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 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 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
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