Tools & Resources

A 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.

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.

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 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.

This resource helps practitioners to reflect on how ready or well positioned they are to work in an adaptive, systemic way.

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 supports practitioners to think through key moments for community members as they participate in the initiative being developed (e.g. from first contact, to participation, to leadership).

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

This resource is a framework for focused conversations with groups in order to reach agreement and/or clarify differences.

This resource provides a framework, together with more than 80 methods and tools, for evaluating place-based work in the Australian context.

M.Q. Patton, an American evaluator whose approaches and tools are recognised and used to evaluate place-based initiatives, has identified a useful set of principles for evaluation, which are Effectiveness Principles. More resources including a webinar  on the…

This resource is a compilation of tools and techniques for working in groups and facilitating meetings and workshops.

This resource describes Australia’s unique leadership culture and shows how leaders working in this context can support the change they want to see in the world.

This resource provides insight into five challenges of systems leadership and how we might respond to them.