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 | 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 29, 2022 | Community & Social Challenges, Cost of living, Leadership & Decision Making, Social Change, Social Impact, Social Innovation, Social Innovation
Social impact and 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 of nature that we must follow or escape from. Whereas cooperation and collaboration is portrayed as a sign of weakness and...
by John-Paul Crofton | Oct 29, 2022 | Social Impact, Leadership, Leadership & Decision Making, Social Innovation
Many people are wrong about how to define what is social impact. How you define social impact matters. People, the future and communities are not predictable. Most views of social impact and the strategies based on that pretend that people are little more than robots...