by John-Paul Crofton | Mar 26, 2023 | Problem Solving & Decision Making, Fundamentals, Leadership & Decision Making, Neighbourhood Health, Public Services Innovation, Responsive Project Management, Social Impact, Tools For Change
This beginners guide to polarity management strategy explains what is polarity management and how you can get started using it. In typical strategy we optimise for one thing we want and often end up with unintended results. The world is full of complex issues....
by John-Paul Crofton | Mar 19, 2023 | Tools For Change, Neighbourhood Health, Project Funding
Completing a successful social project funding proposal can feel like a long winding road. There’s so much to think about, it is easy to get lost, or take a wrong turn and end up stuck in the bushes. Especially as the pressure of trying to get funding for your...
by John-Paul Crofton | Mar 11, 2023 | Problem Solving & Decision Making, Neighbourhood Health, Project Funding, Social Enterprise, Tools For Change
Getting funding for a project or pilot or community scheme is often a send and hope process. Creating a project funding proposal can be challenging, and the pressure to get it right can be overwhelming. The skills for running a project our totally different from those...
by John-Paul Crofton | Mar 5, 2023 | Problem Solving & Decision Making, Community & Social Challenges, Leadership & Decision Making, Learning, Neighbourhood Health, 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, Neighbourhood Health, 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 5, 2023 | Problem Solving & Decision Making, Community & Social Challenges, Fundamentals, Leadership & Decision Making, Neighbourhood Health, 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...
