Ecology
Ecology asks us to step back and look at a system or landscape as a whole. We suggest there are a few different frames to use.
Personal
Here are some useful tools for strengthening your personal practices within a team.
Tools & Resources
Art of Leadership: Supplemental Participant Workbook II
This workbook is packed with tools and resources to help you grow personally and professionally as a leader.
Rockwood Leadership Institute
Curriculum
Collab 101 - Lesson 2: Personal development
As part of the Collab Model, this lesson focuses on personal development, providing frameworks and tools for personal development in an organizational context.
Round Sky Solutions
LINK
Collab 101 - Tracking Personal Development Template
Related to the above resources, this template is designed to track personal development.
Round Sky Solutions
Team
These resources can help clarify team dynamics and strengthen team functioning.
PowerPoint
Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team
Work to reach a common understanding of what it means to be a team and make substantial progress towards becoming a more cohesive unit.
Eric Polite
Tools & Resources
LEE Management Docs
Explore several management tools and resources from Leadership for Educational Equity.
Leadership for Educational Equity
Toolkit
Goals + Success Spectrum
Clarify goals and outcomes by defining success along a spectrum of Minimum to Target to Epic.
Faster Than 20
SWITCH PATHWAYS
We move through change each day – it is a constant in our lives. These are the building blocks of sustainability for living in this moment and throughout the long road ahead.
There can be a deep sense of urgency for change that drives us to action before we have fully aligned our purpose and outcomes. This can lead to disruptions, unnecessary conflict and ultimately failure of our plans. Here are valuable guides for aligning intention and action to save energy, resources and time.
To make change in our society, we need to understand the fundamentals of how decision making happens, in our teams, through our social identities, and in our systems of power.
Work for diversity, equity and inclusion achieves lasting impact when we orient our energy towards structural change and integrate structural change tools into our programs and operations. This pathway provides support for analyzing structures and transforming them for justice.
Breaking the status quo and opening up new possibilities for equity and freedom in our work requires innovative experiments. Teams must ensure that all members have the ability to act on the vision and goals they are co-creating.
Our minds cannot move toward racial justice, equity or transformation if our bodies are not prepared for change. This pathway offers those preparations that we have found most beneficial to adult learning.
Explore the interviews, frameworks, templates and articles created and published by Up With Community.
GROW COMMUNITY
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