Tools & Resources

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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.

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2. Building the Foundations

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.

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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.

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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.

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1. Readiness Runway

2. Building the Foundations

3. Creating a Shared Vision

This 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.    

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This tool will help you to identify ways to expand your adaptive leadership practices. It is designed to support individual reflection on leadership practice and identify practices that can be trialled immediately.  

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This tool will help you to reflect on the power and influence currently available to you and assist you to identify other ways of using that power and influence.  

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

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2. Building the Foundations

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…

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1. Readiness Runway

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

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1. Readiness Runway

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

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1. Readiness Runway

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.

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4. Scaling Up

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