Tools & Resources

This resource includes an overview of what a common agenda is, and a five-step guide for developing a common agenda with others.

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.

This tool will help you to: • Critically examine the dynamics relating to an important issue in your initiative. • Think differently about the challenge/initiative and your role in it. • Identify new means of and opportunities to exercise leadership.

This tool will help you to identify how ready your system (group, community or organisation) is for collaboration and adaptation. It can also be modified to help you assess readiness for tackling complex challenges.

This resource provides a comprehensive ‘how to’ guide for forming, running, and harnessing the benefits of working groups.

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 articulates four steps in aligning collective effort.

This tool will help you to identify what you are trying to achieve, how you will achieve it, how you will know you’ve made a difference, and how you will continuously adapt and improve your practice.  

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.    

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.  

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 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.  

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.