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 features Sharon Fraser, CFI Network Member, explaining key concepts and strategies for building the foundations for collaboration, including collective impact, all in less than 35 minutes!
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1. Readiness RunwayThis tool will help you to understand which phase of the Collaborative Change Cycle you are in and what you can do to continue making progress.
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This report is a synthesis of learnings and insights from a workshop facilitated by Mark Cabaj and CFI on changing systems, power and potential. The report is a blend of concepts, frameworks, applications and hints organised into three sections: Defining the system; Leading for systems change; and…
This resource allows collaborators to measure how they are working together via the completion of an online survey, on a one-off or longitudinal basis.
3. Creating a Shared VisionThis resource provides a four-step process for articulating and tracking progress through the early stages of a collaborative project, by looking back and looking forward.
2. Building the FoundationsThis resource contains comprehensive information, questions, tools, and links for developing and delivering community collaborations.
4. Scaling UpQuiz This resource contains a series of tools for planning community engagement to be more purposeful, equitable, transparent, and…
This resource supports those working on community change initiatives to understand complexity and to work adaptively.
This resource provides a governance framework for those seeking to work collaboratively on a complex social or community challenge.
This resource describes and analyses four different perspectives on leadership: authentic leadership; adaptive leadership; neuro leadership; and complexity leadership.
This resource describes seven behaviours and practices of leaders who are able to nourish and evoke the best qualities in people.
This resource is a video of Liz Skelton discussing the key components of a holding environment, drawing on the analogy of a pressure cooker.
This resource provides a broad, multidisciplinary systematised review of literature on cross sector partnerships for systemic change.
5. Achieving TransformationThis resource provides a roadmap for effective collaboration based on five Cs: clarifying purpose; convening the right people; cultivating trust; coordinating existing activities; and collaborating for systems impact.
David Snowden on his Cynefin framework to assist you and others to differentiate between the complicated and the complex.
Change Cycle Locator Tool
Take the quick survey to work out where you are on your change journey and access information specific to your needs