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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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 shares insights into why Collective Impact and Systems Change efforts are most powerful when they are conducted at a place-based level. This is an excerpt of a video interview in 2020 with John Kania by CFI Director, Kerry Graham.

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1. Readiness Runway

John Kania introduces the six conditions of systems change framework. An excerpt of a video interview in 2020 with John Kania by CFI Director, Kerry Graham.

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1. Readiness Runway

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 provides practical guidance on how to and when to engage in horizontal management, which is concerned with working collaboratively across organisational boundaries.

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4. Scaling Up

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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This resource is designed to help those interested or involved in a particular cross-sector collaboration better understand the complexities and nuances of the initiative.

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2. Building the Foundations

This resource uses a basic matrix to distinguish between simple, complicated, political, complex, and chaotic issues and challenges, and the types of intervention most appropriate to each.

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1. Readiness Runway

This resource contains a process for working with stakeholders to determine their desired level of involvement in an initiative.

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2. Building the Foundations

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