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
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 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 provides an introduction to social innovation processes that will help you rapidly test your assumptions in a cost-effective way.
This resource explains how identifying and understanding ‘positive deviance’ will help you understand the kind of solutions that can work in your community – with the resources that are already in place.
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.
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 introduces design research as an approach and set of methods that are particularly well suited to understanding the reality of people’s lives, what they want for the future and how the current situations help and hinder them.
This resource describes different approaches to leadership and identifies those best suited to collaborative community impact and systems change.
The multi-level perspective (MLP) is a framework for describing transition processes in complex socio-technical systems. This canvas is designed to help participants think about change on these different levels and how it can be used to enable disruptive innovation.
This resource explains how prototyping can help you bridge the evidence gap by creating context specific evidence through experimentation.
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 describes the core capabilities of system leaders and describes the means by which they may be acquired.
This resource describes six conditions of systems change: policies; practices; resource flows; relationships and connections; power dynamics; and mental models.
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