Category Archives: Tool

Tool – Mapping Your Network

Social Network Mapping is a powerful way to visualize your network’s connections and interactions. To simplify the practice of network mapping, Netweaver has compiled a free module of five different hand-drawn network mapping activities that are simple for a network to use…

Incurable Curiosity: Pay Attention Today to Plan for a Future You Can’t Control

Curiosity & Six Questions for Dealing with Uncertainty

This 60 minute webinar / workshop from HSD Institute discusses the power of questions and curiosity during times of change and uncertainty. In this presentation, Dr Glenda Eoyang shares six questions facilitators can use to help a group navigate and take appropriate action during times of change and uncertainty…

Tool – Network Health Scorecard

Network leaders can use the Network Health Scorecard to evaluate their network twelve Network Health Factors and create an improvement plan…

Tool – Health Factors of Effective Networks

Effective Networks focus on twelve Network Health Factors. These health factors are essential to the effectiveness and success as a network. They are organized into three broad categories: Purpose, People, Process and twelve essential elements….

Tool – Network Communication EcoSystem

One of the most critical support structures for networks is a well-thought-out communications ecosystem – a set of tools and platforms that enable everyone in the network to connect and collaborate directly with anyone else in the network. This communications ecosystem model helps networks evaluate and improve their communications…

Tool: Agree or Disagree About Collaboration

This tool will help groups develop a common understanding of one another’s perspectives on collaboration and can assist in making a case for collaboration that is rooted in participants’ ideas, observations, and values….

Tool: Key Factors Mapping

This is a simple but effective group method for quickly identifying the factors that have the most influence or impact on addressing a given challenge. It pushes a group to think harder about what’s really holding back progress…

Tool: Network Consultation Report Template

It is extremely easy for members and leaders of networks and partnership to “recall” the content of a consultation or conference in widely diverging ways. visionSynergy recommends that network and partnership leadership create a Summary Report that can serve as a common data set, or shared referent, for all members. Below is a consultation summary report template that you can use to share key event decisions, details, and information with your members and stakeholders…

Tool: Collaboration Spectrum

How collaborative is your network? As groups move towards greater collaboration they must pay attention to activities that build trust among the partners. This tool can be used to guide a conversation about the level of collaboration that is needed…

Tool: Network Journey Map

The Network Journey map is a visual description of the three different stages (Exploration, Formation, Operation) that we typically see in the development of a network. The map shows the goals, steps, success factors, and potential pitfalls present in each stage.

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