by John-Paul Crofton | Mar 5, 2023 | Problem Solving & Decision Making, Community & Social Challenges, Leadership & Decision Making, Learning, Social Change, Social Enterprise, Social Impact, Social Innovation, Tools For Change
Creating Social Impact Projects Challenges Creating social impact is hard. Even if you with all the expertise a charity or social enterprise has, creating a social change project that results in social impact is always a challenge. Why? Because the project management...
by John-Paul Crofton | Feb 26, 2023 | Problem Solving & Decision Making, Social Innovation, Stakeholder Engagement, Tools For Change
Why does everyone hate being marketed to? If we want to have successful campaigns that build social impact they are seen as a necessary evil. Campaigns and stakeholder engagement tend to feel repetitive and one-dimensional. We focus on people ‘buying into’...
by John-Paul Crofton | Feb 19, 2023 | Problem Solving & Decision Making, Creativity & Innovation, Fundamentals, Leadership, Social Change, Tools For Change
The Cynefin Framework is a powerful decision making tool for managing change strategies. Creating social impact can be a challenging task. The traditional strategic approach is to ‘create a big plan to solve a problem’. This approach to project management often falls...
by John-Paul Crofton | Feb 12, 2023 | Community & Social Challenges, Social Enterprise & not for profit organisations
Social enterprise & not-for-profit organisations have the capacity to act like stewards or gardeners of communities. Transforming barren, decaying communities into thriving, vibrant places. Cultivating and growing communities through ‘bottom-up’ social change....
by John-Paul Crofton | Feb 5, 2023 | Problem Solving & Decision Making, Community & Social Challenges, Fundamentals, Leadership & Decision Making, Social Change, Social Enterprise, Social Impact, Social Innovation, Tools For Change
The Adaptive Cycle helps empower with insight to how to best manage a strategy for a social impact project throughout it’s lifecycle. Delivering social impact is rarely a straight line path through an unchanging environment. The reality is that change is a part...
by John-Paul Crofton | Feb 4, 2023 | Problem Solving & Decision Making, Community & Social Challenges, Complete Guides, Fundamentals, Leadership, Social Impact, Social Innovation
Creating a social project in your community is one of the most rewarding and sometimes challenging things you can do. This guide is designed as a reference to get you started and keep you on the right track. Three Key Takeaways to Starting and Managing Social &...
by John-Paul Crofton | Jan 29, 2023 | Problem Solving & Decision Making, Fundamentals, Social Change, Social Innovation
This guide defines what is a project as well giving you a deep understanding of what is different about a social project. What it means to be different from other types of project, as well as providing examples to inspire you. What is a Social Project: Key Takeaway....
by John-Paul Crofton | Jan 22, 2023 | Problem Solving & Decision Making, Fundamentals, Leadership
What is a project? What if I told you that the way you think about projects could be limiting your social impact? The traditional approach to projects, with its linear planning and isolated nature, can often lead us down the path of project failure and frustration....
by John-Paul Crofton | Jan 15, 2023 | Creativity & Innovation, Leadership, Problem Solving & Decision Making, Tools For Change
Learn How to Create a Social Project. The Social Project Compass is a tool specifically designed to help you create social projects. Social change can often be an unpredictable journey. This tool gives your project the flexibility and resilience of navigating social...
by John-Paul Crofton | Nov 18, 2022 | Creativity & Innovation, Problem Solving & Decision Making, Stakeholder Engagement, Tools For Change
Attracting people to support and join your cause is now a huge part of creating social impact. Social media is a huge part of so many of our lives and it is one of the best ways of connecting with new people. As such, we are spending ever more time representing our...
by John-Paul Crofton | Nov 16, 2022 | Problem Solving & Decision Making, Social Innovation, Stakeholder Engagement, Tools For Change
Traditional approaches to stakeholder engagement treat people as thoughtless zombies. Who are to be channelled down narrow paths, with spam communications. Instead, create a web of engagement empowering people to engage through building awareness with our projects in...
by John-Paul Crofton | Oct 30, 2022 | Problem Solving & Decision Making, Community & Social Challenges, Cost of living, Tools For Change
What Social Impact Strategies Are Needed to Impact the Cost of Living CrisisSocial Strategies to Create Social ImpactSocial Impact Strategy Options: 1. Protect (Stay the Same.)Social Impact Strategy Options: 2. Adapt to the Situation.Social Impact Strategy Options: 3....
by John-Paul Crofton | Oct 29, 2022 | Tools For Change, Community & Social Challenges, Leadership, Purpose & Wellbeing, Social Impact, Stress
Many organisations get stuck in cycles of never ending change because they take a the bureaucratic approach to change management. Resulting in the low success rate of change in most organisations. (Such as the 30% failure rate reported by McKinsey. The Planning Stress...
by John-Paul Crofton | Oct 29, 2022 | Leadership & Decision Making, Community & Social Challenges, Cost of living, Social Change, Social Impact, Social Innovation, Social Innovation
Creating social progress through survival of the fittest is a core idea at the heart of our Western societies. We are told it is a natural law that we must follow or escape from. But it has failed time and time again and is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of...
by John-Paul Crofton | Oct 29, 2022 | Problem Solving & Decision Making, Social Impact, Social Innovation, Tools For Change
Why is Difficult to Scale Efficiently?What is the Hierarchy of Social Intervention?What Are The Benefits From the Hierarchy of Social Intervention on Efficiency and Scale.Example Using the Hierarchy of Social Intervention to Efficiently Scale Social Impact.Planning...
