In reflecting on a meeting I helped organize for a multi-organization, multi-stakeholder network, I realized that there’s more to online collaboration than using the right technology and best practices. In…
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Can problem-solving itself be problematic?
Intelligence is usually defined in terms of capacities like the ability to learn, to plan, to recognize patterns and to solve problems. So it has been hard for me –…
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Collective Mind Community Conversations
The impact of the pandemic on networks: Learning from network managers’ experiencesCollective Mind hosts regular Community Conversations with our global learning community. These sessions create space for network professionals to connect, share…
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Network Training Slide Decks
We are offering a new section in our Resources section: a set of presentation slide decks that can be used by you for training or sharing with people who want…
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NETWORK VALUES
Having a group or network take a values survey raises awareness of the values and behaviors that enable networks to be system shifting or transformational.Network Weaver has published a Network…
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Collaborative Projects
This Collaborative Projects Survey can be used to help collaborative work or learning projects increase their awareness of their strengths and challenges and enable them to see the skills that…
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The Importance of Learning in Networks
We are seeing a shift in the social transformation space from evaluation to learning and support for change. Evaluation has too often been a judgment-based, funder driven approach to determining whether…
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Analyzing Network Maps
Having network maps is a wonderful thing – but not if you can’t read what they are saying! This free resource offers some basic strategies for interpreting network maps. Network maps…
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Identifying Leverage Points to Focus Action
The idea behind the identification of leverage points is the assumption that working in some areas can be more productive than others. A leverage point is a place where, if…
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Learning Weavers
What are learning weavers? Why does your network need them?I’ve often thought that we need to spend much more time and energy making sense of and learning from what we…
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