by John-Paul Crofton | Apr 12, 2023 | Problem Solving & Decision Making, Community & Social Challenges, Leadership & Decision Making, Social Impact, Stakeholder Engagement
Scaling Social Change Leads to the Law of Misunderstanding The big problem with scaling organisation and social change is the impact of the best ideas appears to diminish as you scale up. The Law of Misunderstanding describes the scaling problem as ideas spread, and...
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 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
This practical guide is based on the science of creating social change and aims to give you everything you need to know to start, manage and grow community and social projects that make a difference. After reading this guide you should be able to avoid the most common...
