Effective Convening Tools Will Help you:
- Develop an Effective Backbone Organization
- Develop Effective Leaders
- Create an Inclusive Setting
- Build Capacity for Shared Leadership
- Assess and Strengthen Initiative Communication Practices
- Embed Effective Communication within Meeting Processes
Shared Vision and Goals Tools Will Help You:
- Design and Launch a Shared Visioning Process
- Embed Equity into the Shared Visioning Process
- Talk with Others about the Shared Vision
- Develop Skills to Talk About Equity
- Help Organizations Explore Opportunities to Embed Vision
- Build Awareness and A Call to Action
Engaged Diverse Partners Tools Will Help You:
- Identify and Recruit Diverse Partners
- Create Opportunities for Active Engagement
- Develop a Clear Action Plan
- Coordinate Multiple Efforts
- Support Initiative Members in Taking Leadership Roles
- Support Community Leadership Development
- Provide Change Agent Opportunities
Aligned Systems Tools Will Help You:
- Design a System Scan
- Gather Information from Diverse Perspectives and Sources
- Make Sense of System Scan Information
- Develop a Shared Agenda
- Design Powerful Strategies to Purse Shared Vision
- Initiate Action
- Support Effective Implementation
- Pursue Sustainable Funding Sources
Adaptive Learning and Improvement Processes Tools Will Help You:
- Define and Measure Shared Outcomes
- Gather Rapid Feedback on Change Efforts
- Respond to Emerging Needs and Opportunities
- Support Organizational Learning and Improvement
- Promote New Expectations and Incentives
Equity Pursuits Tools Will Help You:
Tools At Your Fingertips
Printable resources
Source: ABLe Change
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Change Agent Field Guide. Practical tools and ideas for how organizations and groups can bring systems change practices into their work
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BBO Field Guide. Step by step processes, tools, and examples for backbone organizations supporting local collaboratives in pursuit of collective impact outcomes.
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ABLe Pocket Guide. High-level summary of the 8 step ABLe Change process for community systems change.
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ABLe Change Agent Practices: Tools Summary of tools to help individuals become change agents for community systems change. A simple self-assessment identifies areas for further learning and links to tools to support change efforts.
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ABLe Change Process: Tools Summary of tools to support the ABLe Change process for community systems change
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Powerful Strategies:
- Leverage Points
- System Alignment
- Equity
- Disrupt the Status Quo
- Saturate the Community
- Tackle Multiple Outcomes
Moving to Action
- Move to action with Quick Wins
- Move beyond data paralysis
- Help people see their role in change
- Reduce ambiquity
- Provide behind the scenes support
- Create a culture of mutual accountability
Equity Pursuits
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