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 resource includes an overview of what a common agenda is, and a five-step guide for developing a common agenda with others.
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3. Creating a Shared VisionThis 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 VisionThis resource articulates four steps in aligning collective effort.
4. Scaling UpThis 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.
4. Scaling Up
5. Achieving TransformationThis 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 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 helps collaborators to scope a Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) plan for place-based initiatives, drawing on Clear Horizon’s standard MEL planning tools.
A Place-based Evaluation Framework and Toolkit, co-commissioned by the Department of Social Services and Queensland Government Department of Communities, Disability Services and for evaluating place-based delivery approaches. The toolkit has over 80 methods and tool to choose from.
Logan Together’s 2018 Progress report is an example of the type of reporting that can be achieved through the measurement and learning effort.
Rubrics are a useful tool for assessing performance, these can be co-designed with the community.
This resource describes the theory and objectives of reflection workshops, and provides a step-by-step guide to conducting them, based on three stages of evaluative thinking: What happened? So what? Now what?
The language and practice of place-based and community-led change in Australia: Building a shared understanding Collective Impact and community-led approaches have been increasingly adopted and applied by Australian governments recently, reflecting a desire to engage and work with the public…
A paper on Theory of Change for complex initiatives aiming at systems change.
More tools for evaluating complexity can be found here.
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